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Post image for Helsinki Says “No” to the Guggenheim

Members of Helsinki’s City Board have rejected the long-standing proposal to build a branch of the Guggenheim Museum on the city’s waterfront. Eight of the board’s fifteen members voted today against furthering the proposal to the City Council for consideration.

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Post image for Jerry Saltz Slams Tonight's Auction of Edvard Munch's Scream

Today, New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss tonight’s Sotheby’s auction of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” Saltz isn’t a fan of the circus surrounding tonight’s sale and he dislikes that the chatter is mostly about the projected price tag and not the art itself.

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Post image for Your Chance to See One of William Wegman's Dogs Dance

If you’ve ever wanted to see a dancing dog — and not just any dog, but one of William Wegman’s Weimaraners — you’re about to get your chance. Choreographer Karole Armitage has teamed up with a handful of visual artists, including Wegman, Will Cotton, Kalup Linzy and Aïda Ruilova, for a dance-cum-performance-art show at the Abron Arts Center titled “Werk! The Armitage Gone Variety Show.”

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Post image for WTC1 Is Officially the Tallest Building in New York

WTC1 may have reached the 100-floor mark on April 2, but today, April 30, it has officially surpassed the Empire State Building (1,250 ft./381 m) as the tallest building in New York.

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Post image for Watch Performance Art Live from Home Tonight

If you’re hoping to see some art tonight but also don’t want to leave your couch, we have a solution: Beginning at 8:30 pm, the international internet performance art festival Low Lives will begin broadcasting online, with performances from artists around the world, including a number in Brooklyn.

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Post image for New Academic Journal and MIT Center for Arts and Technology to Launch

LOS ANGELES — Lots of srsbsns with the arts and technology in the news lately. What caught my eye was a new Center for Arts, Science and Technology at MIT and a new academic journal, the Journal for Digital Humanities.

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Post image for What Part of Your Brain Falls in Love With Art?

LOS ANGELES — If you’re reading this, you probably know the feeling. You’ve just fell in love with a work of art. Now science is trying to figure out how that happens.

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Post image for Is Stolen Art Work in Bushwick a Case of False Advertising?

Adam Simon’s Steal This Art doesn’t really mean it. Too bad the culprit didn’t know that.

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Post image for Food Court Threatens Alice Aycock Sculpture at JFK

Oy! The Terminal One Group Association (TOGA) at JFK airport wants to dismantle and remove a work inside that terminal, “Star Sifter,” by renowned American sculptor Alice Aycock.

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Post image for Against the Tide: NY State Increases Arts Funding by $4M

Just when many Americans thought that government funding for the arts was going the way of the dodo, last month New York State passed a budget that included a $4 million increase in grants funding to the State Council on the Arts. That morsel of budgetary fact may have been lost on many, but Assemblyman Joe Lentol (D-North Brooklyn), a longtime supporter of the arts, trumpeted the increase in a press release over the weekend.

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