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Happy Friday, and Happy New Year, listeners! Welcome back to with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, January 13, 2023.
This week’s stories: New York Times: A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job. New York Times: Opinion + Letters: Fired by a College for Showing a Painting of Muhammad The Art Newspaper: New York's Frick Collection acquires its first-ever Renaissance portrait of a woman The Art Newspaper: Genesis of Phil Collins’s collection of Alamo artefacts questioned ahead of museum opening Financial Times: Marina Abramović on Anne Imhof ARTnews: Viral TikTok Joke About the Mona Lisa Being Stolen Generates Mass Confusion
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