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Artists including Jenny Holzer, Alison Saar and Kiki Smith creating commissions for Obama Presidential Center
The nine new works will be made by ten artists—including Nick Cave, Marie Watt and Idris Khan
US immigration agents show up unannounced at Puerto Rican cultural centre in Chicago
More than a dozen Department of Homeland Security vehicles swarmed the parking lot of the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture
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'Courageous and resilient individuals': why the Illinois Holocaust Museum is embracing virtual reality to share survivors’ stories
New technologies are helping to protect and preserve the vital eye-witness perspectives of a dwindling but determined community
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Lord Palumbo’s Mies house for sale next month
Farnsworth House will be auctioned next month