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Judge Green-Lights Berkshire Museum’s Sale of Most Valuable Works in Collection
Today, Berkshire Superior Court Judge John Agostini ruled that the museum could auction off many of the most valuable works in its collection.
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Brooklyn's Biggest Comics Festival Just Got Much Bigger
This weekend's Comic Arts Brooklyn festival has relocated to the Pratt Institute campus and roughly doubled in size.
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😂 Is the Most Popular Emoji (Sorry 😭)
People really ❤️ using "face with tears of joy," according to a new chart released by Apple.
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Prankster Grants Paul Manafort’s Brooklyn Brownstone Special and Hilarious Landmark Status
The former Trump campaign manager's investment property at 377 Union Street has been designated "the house that brought down a president."
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Artist Sean Scully’s Former Assistant Allegedly Stole Work to Sell at Auction
Arturo Rucci, a former assistant to Scully, has been arrested under suspicion of stealing a triptych from the artist's studio and consigning it for auction at Bonhams.
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Starchitects, Sustainability, and Virtual Reality at the Architecture and Design Film Festival
The ninth edition of New York's Architecture and Design Film Festival balances movies about boldface names with documentaries about historic preservation of the future of urbanism.
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George Washington Portrait Flips Off Trump in Viral Photoshopped Images [UPDATED]
A batch of four photos, tweaked by Portland-based satirist Mike Wellins, show portraits of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Jackson ridiculing the current US president.
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NYC Mayor Proposes New Protections for Loft Tenants, Pledging Support for Arts Workers
The new rules would help maintain rent-regulated loft spaces, some 30% of which have disappeared in the last 15 years.
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Firm Behind "Fearless Girl" Reaches $5M Settlement for Allegedly Underpaying Women and Minorities
According to a 2012 audit by the Department of Labor, State Street underpaid more than 300 women in senior positions and 15 black vice presidents.
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Too Lewd for the Louvre, Boinking Building Sculpture Nixed in Paris
"Domestikator," a 40-foot-tall inhabitable sculpture that was to be part of the FIAC fair's public art program, is shaped like two figures making whoopee.
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Step Inside a Lunar Eclipse
In Lunar Eclipse, an immersive installation and musical performance, a stylized rendering of the titular celestial phenomenon will be projected onto an inflatable dome.
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Experts Believe Leonardo Sketched the Mona Lisa Nude
Analysis of a drawing long attributed to Leonardo's studio suggests the artist worked on at least part of it, and that it may have been a preparatory sketch for the Mona Lisa.