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Two months after accusing Chicago's DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center of misappropriating public funds and other offenses, Kim Dulaney, its former vice president of education and programs, has filed a whistleblower and retaliatory discharge lawsuit. Dulaney filed a complaint with the Cook County Circuit Court on December 1, alleging wrongful termination following her repeated criticisms of the museum's operations under CEO and president Perri Irmer. The lawsuit was first reported by Chicago-based news outlet the Triibe.

I have made a mural before, and it was a great way to contribute something free to the city. I love the idea of consuming art at no cost, and I think this was the perfect way for people to see my work out in the wild, not having to own anything, and return back to it whenever they feel like it.

Upon close inspection, the work's text is a list of words that have seemingly been banned by the Trump administration that first appeared in the New York Times in March, which has been adapted as Andrea Fraser's latest project, titled Lexicon. The majority of these words revolve around the term "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) and related terms, like "racial diversity," "activism," "discrimination," confirmation bias," "women," "cultural heritage," "underserved," "pregnant person," "they/them"-the list goes on.

These episodes are part of Craft in America's celebration of the country's upcoming 250th anniversary and PBS's slate of programming for PBS America @ 250. They will be followed by "NORTH" and "SOUTH," premiering in 2026. This four-episode event is part of the Handwork 2026 initiative, a nationwide semiquincentennial collaboration showcasing the importance of the handmade and celebrating the diversity of craft that defines America.

The mother and child stand at the top of Notre-Dame de la Garde, at the city's highest peak, and is known as the Bonne Mère (Good Mother) to those who peer up at it rising into the sky. The icon is nearly 37 feet tall and weighs more than 20,000 pounds. The bullet holes were discovered near the end of a five-year restoration that included re-gilding the surface of the statue for the first time since 1989.

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During conservation work this year, specialists discovered seven bullet wounds, inflicted by German troops during the Second World War, in the copper of the Madonna and Child statue that stands atop Notre-Dame de la Garde in Marseille, the basilica crowning the city's highest peak. Known locally as la Bonne Mère (the good mother), she is said to watch over sailors, fishermen and all Marseillais.

Those paying attention to New York politics this fall (basically everyone, it seemed) couldn't help but notice that Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani often saw his name mispronounced, misspelled, and generally mangled. All the same, he went from one percent name recognition to the winning candidate, beating by a wide margin former governor Andrew Cuomo. It got so bad that the mayor-elect even scolded the former governor during a debate, saying, "The name is Mamdani. M-A-M-D-A-N-I."

Known as Tse Bitai to the Diné (Navajo) people, or "winged rock," Ship Rock in New Mexico is an otherworldly geological formation rising out of the desert that can be seen for miles around. The result of a massive volcanic eruption, the unique outcrop consists of a monolithic stack and at least six radiating, serpentine ridges of long-cooled lava. Originally, Ship Rock was likely a few thousand feet below the ground, but gradual erosion over tens of millions of years has revealed its jagged shape.

He grew up between the French capital and Bab el Oued, a suburb of Algiers in Algeria, and his Algerian-French identity and the culture and history of Europe and North Africa-the global north and south-have profoundly informed his subject matter and materials. His work across three decades in photography, collage, sculpture, installation and sound, is concerned with a central concept: repair. By association, the notion of repair is inevitably connected with violence and injury.

I'd always thought of myself as too impatient for raw footage and long, unedited takes-I liked my stories synthesized. And I remained unconvinced by the old utopian claims of the fly-on-the-wall view touted by those French filmmakers of the '50s and '60s: even as observational cinema tries to avoid manipulation, it is always inevitably shaped by a director, a team, an angle, a moment in time.

For me to be part of this, especially coming from a place like Ghana, which for many years was almost as if we were not even part of the discourse, is quite humbling.

As directed by Patrick Nims, Stumptown Stages' production of the 1960 show brings out the rousing cheer of Lionel Bart's music ... even as villainous adult characters cackle over their mistreatment of unfortunate children. With a book, music and lyrics, by Bart, Oliver! is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel Oliver Twist, and Stumptown has projected chapter titles that evoke the thrilling satisfaction of turning the pages of a beloved leatherbound book.

It's not surprising that there are two sets of lush arrangements in Mason Pott 's Chicago studio. Photographing live bouquets of bright sunflowers, daisies, and waxy apples or magenta orchids at their peak is the first step in the artist's layered process. Post photoshoot, he translates these floral bunches into hyperrealistic paintings, with particular care in accurately capturing their textures and the interplay of light and shadow.

For me, not only is it an honor to represent El Salvador, I grew up here, but unfortunately, again, we are in another cycle of migration at this moment. For El Salvador, this is the first time we will host our own pavilion-I am filled with joy and happiness. As an artist, I feel very blessed.

Hours earlier, his lawyer shared that Panahi was sentenced in absentia to a year in prison in Iran. According to his lawyer, Mostafa Nili, who posted about the sentence on X and shared the news with Agence France-Presse, the sentence also includes a two-year ban on travel from Iran and a prohibition of any association with political groups, on charges of "propaganda activities against the system." Nili added that Panahi's legal team plans to appeal the ruling.

Let's face it: we're all pressed for time. One way we economize on our use of that precious resource is acronyms, those handy abbreviations that use the first letters of a multi-word name or phrase. In everyday conversation, for example, when your car breaks down and you need a tow, you call AAA (pronounced triple A), not the American Automobile Association, and it's NASA, not the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, that sends astronauts into space.

The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation presents Platform Dalí, a new international program inspired by the Empordà-born artist whose work was profoundly shaped by the scientific advances of the 20th century. Directed by the curator and art historian Mónica Bello, an internationally recognized leader at the intersection of art and science and former Head of Arts at CERN, Geneva, Platform Dalí fosters dialogue between artists and scientists to explore new ways of understanding the world.

I think sometimes of that black and white historic photograph of 100 people giving a Nazi salute, except one person," the artist told Hyperallergic. "I think that's me.