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A fun fact on #WorldElephantDay: This is one of the oldest elephant depictions in The Met collection! 🐘 Created in Egypt around 3500-3300 B.C., this amulet captures a creature revered for its rarity, size, tusks, and behavior. Learn more: https://t.co/PvK6LQ1TkJ https://t.co/XlkRVoScFl

Guess this medieval animal! 😺🌴🌙🥩 https://t.co/VeWzSe6HPG

Watts Towers is a mosaic sculpture in South Los Angeles built in 1921 by artist Simon Rodia. They are a complex structure from an engineering point of view, which presents several challenges for the team of LACMA conservators working to preserve them. https://t.co/s5k4sGbHHv

Graceful swimmers breach the water’s surface in Sonia Alins’s poetic mixed-media illustrations https://t.co/M4wno7E3DN https://t.co/BZKj9zhXDP

Archaeologists have discovered that a nonbinary Iron Age warrior likely occupies this mysterious Finnish grave: https://t.co/B8kfNMeM5F https://t.co/Avso71XpWu

"This site gives one of the most magnificent views in the world...I know no landscape near a big city that takes the breath away more completely." Trace the design and construction of Fort Tryon Park, beloved home to the #MetCloisters. https://t.co/gArlDeSS0u

The U.K. government’s decision to slash arts funding in higher education is short-sighted. We must remind our politicians why art is essential: https://t.co/ULw3wK9iuP https://t.co/ykzr7nkO1S

In a large step for the repatriation of historic objects, 17,000 ancient objects have been returned to Iraq. https://t.co/GYMPIWBDlg

Join us Aug. 13 @ 9 am PT for a public reading of a Nahua account of the Spaniard conquest on Mexico. Learn more: https://t.co/sK81K57QY1 https://t.co/I4PJwHyB0d

Michel Laclotte, a former director of the Louvre who fiercely defended I. M. Pei’s iconic pyramid installation in front of the museum, has died. He was 92. https://t.co/2iZMiDRhgA

This man stood outside the Tokyo Olympic Village every day and held a motivational poster with encouraging words for the athletes. https://t.co/4vLujXwBqC

Since a record-breaking sale in 2019, Yoshitomo Nara's market has been ascendent. Here are the most expensive works by the Japanese artist ever sold at auction https://t.co/hGQmkipiFo

The V&A and the Library of Congress have acquired illustrations by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya and works by Julia Weist have been acquired by the Jewish Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum and MoMA https://t.co/yssqF19zlN

An artist who defended Ai Weiwei has resigned from Hong Kong’s Arts Council, citing ‘personal safety’: https://t.co/YfJLWFWq9w https://t.co/urArGrLbds

Centered around a troop of Reggaeton dancers, Pablo Larraín’s intense drama, “Ema,” expertly captures the agony and ecstasy of grief and guilt. https://t.co/11Bap1xBrG