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Researchers Confirm Location of Lost City of Alexandria on the Tigris

Aerial photo showing the fortification walls of Alexandria on the Tigris, Charax-Spasinou, Iraq. ©Charax Spasinou Project/Stuart Campbell, 2017 An international team of researchers has confirmed the discovery of the lost city of Alexandria on the Tigris in Iraq. Founded by Alexander the Great (356 BCE–323 BCE), whose brief empire stretched from Greece to the Indus …

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Luxembourg’s Culture Minister Defends Country’s Venice Biennale Budget After Critics Say It’s Too High

Luxembourg’s culture minister Éric Thill. Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Luxembourg’s pavilion for the upcoming Venice Biennale has sparked a political spat at home, after lawmakers questioned both the cost of the project and the nature of the work set to represent the country. At the center of the debate is La Merde, a project …

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Private Messages Reveal Lead Up to Canceled Anti-ICE Show at North Texas Uni, Art Market Edges Back to Growth: Morning Links for March 12, 2026

The market is rebounding… just. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines SORRY, NOT SORRY. Newly revealed text messages and emails shed more light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT) leaders decided to cancel an anti-ICE exhibition by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez. Adam Schrader …

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Dalí Museum in Florida Announces $65 M. Expansion Planned for 2028

https://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Dali-museum.jpg Dali Museum in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. AFP via Getty Images The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg is planning a major expansion expected to begin construction in 2026, with the new facilities slated to open in 2028. The museum said the approximately 35,000-square-foot addition will cost an estimated $65 million and is intended to grow the exhibition …

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Trump’s White House Ballroom Proposal Faces Preservation Concerns Ahead of Federal Vote

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 22: U.S. President Donald Trump displays a rendering of his proposed $250 million White House ballroom as he meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on October 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Less than a week after hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump …

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Where Did the IMLS’s Funding for Museums and Libraries Go? Into Trump’s ‘Freedom Truck’ Road Show, It Seems 

Now you can learn about American history on the back of a flatbed truck, as God intended. Courtesy PragerU Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s …

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Zanele Muholi, South African ‘Visual Activist,’ Wins the World’s Top Photography Prize

Zanele Muholi, ‘Bona III’, ISGM, Boston, 2019 ©Zanele Muholi/Courtesy Yancey Richardson, New York and Southern Guild, Cape Town Zanele Muholi, an acclaimed photographer and activist whose work celebrates the queer Black experience in South Africa and beyond, has won the Hasselblad Award, the world’s leading photography prize, which carries a cash award of SEK 2,000,000 …

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Russian Archaeologist Arrested in Poland Amid Ukraine Probe Into Crimean Excavations

SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – APRIL 18: General view of the Hermitage Museum on April 18, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Lavazza, partner of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburgh supports the exhibition ‘Gods, Men, Heroes’ From the Naples National Archaeological Museum and the Archaeological Park of Pompei. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images for Lavazza) Getty …

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