An Eco-conscious Museum Will Sprout From a Logged Rainforest in Mexico

Good Morning. ⛅ Today, Philip Johnson's name is getting temporarily covered up at MoMA, the 10 most G

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Good Morning. ⛅ Today, Philip Johnson’s name is getting temporarily covered up at MoMA, the 10 most Googled paintings of 2020, and the mystery of Giorgione’s paintings.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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An Eco-conscious Museum Will Sprout From a Logged Rainforest in Mexico The museum, built in the form of a reinvented stepped pyramid, will be located on an expanse of cleared forest, previously stripped bare by illegal logging. Hakim Bishara

MoMA Will Temporarily Cover Philip Johnson’s Name After Architects Denounce White Supremacist Ties A wall sign bearing Johnson’s name will be covered by an artwork during the run of the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. Valentina Di Liscia

SPONSORED Spencer Museum of Art Exhibitions Investigate Healing, Illness, and the Human Body Amid a Pandemic Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body and The Aorta of an Archivist explore our understanding of the human body and related themes of health, care, and connection.

This Longing Vessel Transmits Dreams of Tomorrow Queerness and desire take center stage in the most recent exhibition of work by the Studio Museum in Harlem Artists-in-Residence. Daniella Brito

An Invaluable Black Public Broadcasting Archive Is Now Accessible Online From a report on sundown towns to interviews with Angela Davis and Emmett Till’s mother, here are highlights from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Cydnii Wilde Harris

Why Are Giorgione’s Paintings So Mysterious, Even Centuries Later? We know precious little about the painter’s life, and we know even less about his work’s meaning. A new book argues that the artist wanted it that way. Lauren Moya Ford

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From da Vinci to Bosch, the 10 Most Googled Paintings of 2020 The list of artworks is based on data from 155 different countries. Hakim Bishara

The Links Between Linear Perspective and Virtual Reality Technology It may surprise the reader to find that one of the founding moments for the development of virtual reality actually happened in Florence, in the early 15th century. Filippo Lorenzin

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