Modern
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World
A Reverse Art Heist? Museum Finds Employee’s Painting on Its Wall
The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich said it had fired a worker for hanging one of his own pieces in its modern art collection.
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Books
Following Yoko Ono’s Anarchic Instructions
A major retrospective at Tate Modern instructs visitors to draw their own shadows, shake hands through a canvas and imagine paintings in their heads.
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Newyork
David Ellenson, 76, Who Guided a Generation of Reform Rabbis, Dies
A teacher and rabbi, he forged alliances across all branches of Judaism, and his scholarship confronted questions of Jewish tradition and modernity.
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Books
Blaise Cendrars at the Morgan: A Modern Match of Poetry and Painting
A travelogue in verse, rich with Sonia Delaunay’s art pyrotechnics, is the centerpiece of one of the most eye-opening shows of the summer.
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News
‘Hood Century’: How One Man Is Redefining Midcentury Modern Architecture
In 1928, a Black congregation in Cincinnati bought a German Gothic brick structure originally built in 1865 as a synagogue. Revelation Missionary Baptist Church, as they called it, was later led by the civil rights leader Fred L. Shuttlesworth and ...
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Newyork
Tell Us About Your Strangest Terms of Endearment
Do you have a surprising pet name for your loved ones? When you were young, were you called something bizarre? Tell us about it.