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Janine Antoni / Luhring Augustine How Do You Conserve Art Made of Bologna, or Bubble Gum, or Soap?
As contemporary artists get more ambitious with their materials, conservators have to find creative ways to preserve the works.
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National Gallery in Prague How Should Art Address Human Rights?
Artists who call attention to victims of conflict and violence must strike a balance between self-expression and respect for their subjects.
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Casey Coulter Why Do Colleges Have So Much Art?
Campus museums are home to prodigious exhibits and installations that blur the line between academics and civics.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters America's Deliberate Empathy in Teaching 9/11
The nation’s conscious effort to explain the tragedy as a triumph of compassion, not the onslaught of ruin
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(William Fernando Martinez / AP) A New Way to See Art
Museum programs for the blind challenge notions of how people connect with great works.
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Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP The Art and Science of Apologizing
Research offers a few clues about the most effective way to say “I'm sorry.”
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Shirin Neshat / Cynthia Preston / Gladstone Gallery Rewriting Art History
The College Board is changing the AP course to reverse the cultural and racial bias found in the art world—a prejudice that museums are struggling to overcome, too.
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Matthew Christopher Reimagining Abandoned Schools
Can art depicting empty classrooms shape education policy?
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Andrew Bordwin Does ‘American Art’ Exist Anymore?
As U.S. national identity has changed, so too have ways of categorizing work that represents its country.
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Erproductions Ltd / Corbis How Much Should a Woman Be Paid for Her Eggs?
Medical experts, donors, and agencies can’t seem to agree on how much they’re worth—or what, exactly, the compensation is for.
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Monik Markus / Flickr Schools, Birth Control, and Parental Consent
A debate over whether School-Based Health Centers should be able to offer IUDs
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Laurie Frick From Paint to Pixels
A growing number of artists are using data from self-tracking apps in their pieces, showing that creative work is as much a product of its technology as of its time.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters The Push for Ethical Investment at America’s Colleges
Student campaigns urging universities to divest from industries such as fossil fuels and firearms have become increasingly popular. But financially speaking, they may be purely symbolic.
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Phil Roeder/Flickr Who Should Decide How Students Learn About America’s Past?
Some politicians want to get rid of the AP U.S.-history curriculum because it paints a cynical picture of the country's backstory.
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El Alvi/Flickr How Schools Are Dealing With Anti-Vaccine Parents
One campus is refusing to admit kids who haven't been immunized, and more could follow.
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Dan Taylor/Flickr How Real Are Facebook Friendships?
An artist set out to find the answer—by tracking down and photographing every one of her social-media connections.
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Everett Collection / Sean Nel / Shutterstock / ... Do Women Need Their Own Viagra?
Some argue that a female sexual-dysfunction drug is a matter of equality among the sexes. Others say it creates a medical problem where none exists.
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Carlo Allegri/Reuters/The Atlantic The Architecture of Loss: How to Redesign After a School Shooting
How a building can pay homage to the past while helping people to forget it
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Nikka Andre What Makes a Child an Art Prodigy?
The paintings of seven-year-old Aelita Andre have sold for tens of thousands of dollars, raising the question of what separates true, precocious genius from mere youthful creativity with hype.
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Samul Said/Reuters Which Deaths Matter?
How the media covers the people behind today's grim statistics
