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MUSEUMS

Metropolitan Museum of Art to Reopen Five Days

Three new exhibitions will be on display when the museum’s Fifth Avenue location begins welcoming visitors again on Aug. 29. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Wednesday that its landmark location on Fifth Avenue will welcome visitors five days a week, Thursday through Monday, when it reopens to the […]

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Artist replaces slave trader statue with one of a Black Lives Matter protester

Editors of Live Art News 5 years ago

Last month, Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Bristol, UK, made headlines around the world when they toppled a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston and dumped it into the River Avon. Now, the city has an entirely new figure being celebrated on the once-empty plinth: a protester. British artist Marc […]