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Diaries of a Primitive Man

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Diaries of a Primitive Man

The steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are bustling with visitors on a sunny October afternoon. Tourists pose for selfies, street vendors sell food, and the sound of music fills the air. In Manhattan, the conversation turns to settler colonialism and Indigenous Peoples' Day protests. At the Brooklyn Museum, Indigenous Kachina dolls are displayed, the origins and ownership of which are uncertain.

Roy Lichtenstein's paintings are remembered and influential, with a major survey of his work at the Whitney Museum. The Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art opens a new space in Katonah, New York, and the Karachi Biennale in Pakistan cancels its fifth edition due to "war conditions prevailing in the region." Artist Tammy Nguyen presents her debut opera at the Venice Biennale.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Musée du Louvre co-organize an exhibition exploring Greco-Roman and biblical influences in Rembrandt's practice.

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