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The commissioner of the Russian pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, Grigory Revzin, has been fired due to his political views on the Crimean situation, The Art Newspaper reported.
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By Muriel Cooper's hand, a charismatic, digitally transmuted Bauhaus aesthetic came to grace the covers of some of the twentieth century's most influential scholarly books on design, architecture, economics, biology, computer science, and sociology.
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A report published today by New York City's comptroller found that more than 28 percent of city public schools lack a certified arts educator, in violation of "clearly established mandates in New York State Education Law."
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A union of hashtag activism, street art, and drones hardly portends an outcome of substance, but a rare exception has surfaced in Pakistan, where a collective has unveiled an athletic-field-sized poster meant to attract the attention of American drones operating in the country's volatile Khyber Pakh
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"Wow. George Bush is a painter," former president George W. Bush told NBC Today interviewers regarding the reception he imagines his paintings of world leaders will receive upon their public release tomorrow.
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An Australian street artist seems an unlikely figure to reprise Robert Hughes's market-averse brand of video art criticism.
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There are no Texas quail rigs in the Whitney Biennial, but then again New York casts a long shadow of bullshit over American aesthetics, its credentialed scenesters busy strip-mining consumer culture to produce elaborate corporate pranks.
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A committee representing Detroit's 20,000 municipal retirees is demanding a more thorough review of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) collection, arguing that Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's revised bankruptcy plan is less favorable than the original, MLive.com reported.
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The Tate yesterday filed an appeal to a court order that would have required the museum to release internal documents relating to its controversial sponsorship deal with British Petroleum (BP), Hyperallergic has learned.
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At 6:45 pm ET yesterday evening, a handheld bell sounded in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, signaling the second protest action in as many months from the Global Ultra Luxury Faction, or G.U.L.F.
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The Wadsworth Atheneum has acquired a significant self portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi, "Self-Portrait as a Lute Player" (c. 1616–18).
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A spoof Guggenheim website, globalguggenheim.org, went live this morning with a satirical "Sustainable Design Competition" for the museum's embattled Abu Dhabi branch.