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Petition to make all keys ~fancy~ keys again https://t.co/ftKSt7CsqA

What can't this 16th-century clock do? 🕰️ (Very little.) The owner of this table clock would have been able to identify the stars' position, the date, the time in both Roman and Arabic numerals, and even set an alarm. Learn more: https://t.co/OnFAwyO1Va https://t.co/IPrGy75VQD

An ancient snack bar lined with elaborate frescoes opens this week in Pompeii https://t.co/DzvPzQ8Zin https://t.co/4LWCbGAVAz

An NFT startup is selling what it calls a genuine Claude Monet for just $2 million. The problem? It may not be real: https://t.co/NhhtoG4zw2 https://t.co/99Xkgks6F2

Portraits of the dancer Féral Benga at Swann Galleries evoke his allure as an artist’s model and icon of the Harlem Renaissance. https://t.co/po1fOwmSO8

Describe your last Met visit using only emojis. We'll start: 🌭 🏛️ 🎨 😁

The key The piece it unlocks https://t.co/RxHv3npcox

The pandemic may have killed the blockbuster exhibition. Museum veteran Chris Dercon says that’s a good thing: https://t.co/MsoQjgP8ZP https://t.co/3m3noDOQbn

A new documentary from @art21 explores the work of artist Guadalupe Maravilla, who creates totemic sculptures and sound art that harness the therapeutic power of Indigenous ritual https://t.co/Q7Qh3t3pu9 https://t.co/ImBZxPnoOQ

The MGM’s collection of 11 works by Picasso has an estimate of $70.5m-$104.2m https://t.co/OFhpTDIHbT @Sothebys

A long-lost dress worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz has been rediscovered at Catholic University. https://t.co/okXKudGq82

Look closely at this unfinished painting by Jean-François #Millet 👀 The artist loosely drew the composition and then began to fill in the colors—his working process is wonderfully apparent here!⁣ 🖼️: "Sewing Lesson" (1874), on view in "Monet and Boston: Legacy Illuminated" https://t.co/hOnhwCIEHC

Trump mandated a hunting image be on all U.S. hunting licenses. A proposed change to that plan has ruffled some feathers: https://t.co/bo5F4tCQmR https://t.co/1NbXSPgPos

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair has canceled it’s 61st edition due to concerns about a resurgence of the Covid-19 virus and its Delta variant https://t.co/giEsTuuZYs

Did you know that Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman ever admitted into the Accademia dell’Arte del Disegno in Florence? Here are 10 little-known facts about the artist: https://t.co/bt3IeKFo63