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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is dropping a major hint to the leaders of his home country by creating a monument to Mikhail Gorbachev, a major force in the collapse of the Soviet Union some three decades ago. “Gorbachev is one of the most important thinkers, visionaries, who helped establish a new possibility for society,” the dissident

Amy Sherald’s portrait of Breonna Taylor will be jointly acquired the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, ensuring that the artwork will reach a wide audience for the years ahead. “I felt like it should live out in the world,” Sherald

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