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“If everything was stripped away from me, and I had no other support that I could see or appreciate, I would still paint.” —Jacob Lawrence Happy birthday to the American Modernist #JacobLawrence ✨ Hear from the artist himself in this 1993 documentary produced by @LACMA. https://t.co/eGppY7ADAO

Nearly a century after its disappearance, a 2,000-year-old Italian mosaic—found in a Los Angeles storage facility—has been returned to the Italy by the FBI https://t.co/8rmXH6tYhW

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"Music is the highest art form because it goes so far back before anything else came about…it vibrates the bones and makes you move." - Anthony Barboza Barboza is one of the original members of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers created in 1963. https://t.co/VcSoCDdHOt

Around a third of the objects had been seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. https://t.co/apIValibsE

Former president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama were back at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue today for the unveiling of their White House portraits https://t.co/ynsNzePY4s

Four years too late, the White House unveils Robert McCurdy’s and Sharon Sprung’s 2018 Obama portraits. https://t.co/7vKQnCmeFI

The inaugural Frieze Seoul was met with over 70,000 visitors and substantial sales throughout more than 120 booths. https://t.co/5tKSmCiosp

The object had been chopped into 16 pieces. https://t.co/cI9iNUcb54

Music was the biggest inspiration for Ming Smith, the first female Kamoinge member. Her photo of Sun Ra captures him in a way that makes him look beautifully extraterrestrial—appropriate for a musician who linked the Black experience to Egyptian mythology and outer space. https://t.co/gCcYSlTvMq

A left-leaning constitution was voted down in Chile this weekend, but these murals continue the call for universal human rights, environmental justice, and social equality. https://t.co/nOJgAJwbor

The Abstract Expressionist artist Grace Hartigan has a solo presentation at The Armory Show with ACA Galleries, which represented Hartigan during her lifetime and then her estate after her death in 2008 https://t.co/tXBG3eCtlS @thearmoryshow

This edition of the US Open will have something else noticeably different all around: art. https://t.co/9ExBOaIW6m

See and hear more about the music, artists, and movements that inspired Kamoinge photographers: https://t.co/G1qHZdTF2Z Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop is on view at the Getty Center until October 9.

The Grange Stone Circle was likely used for rituals in prehistoric times. https://t.co/gEi2xOVg5K