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In July, when we covered Peter Schjeldahl's since-retracted stance on selling the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), we noted the legal and logistical challenges of liquidating any part of the collection. Though a lot has transpired since then, there remains a lingering uncertainty about the legal sta
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"Socio-economic illumination, enabled by the evolutionary process of thought, was Beuys’ end-goal," writes Kara L. Rooney in her substantial catalogue essay for Joseph Beuys: Process 1971–1985, the small but ambitious show she's curated at the similarly disposed Rooster Gallery on Orchard Street.
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Following closely in the digital footsteps of the University of California Press, the Getty Center in Los Angeles yesterday made 250 of its art books freely available online.
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When it emerged a little over a week ago that Rizzoli's iconic 57th Street store was to be demolished to make way for luxury towers, the inevitable nostalgia was almost immediately tempered by calls for the preservation of the historic structure.
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… New York, Pittsburgh, Morocco, China, Japan, "The East," Iceland, Spain, Seattle, France, Latvia …
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If the howlings this week surrounding the fate of the American Folk Art Museum building are any indication, a low-stakes outrage has gripped the culture pages of virtually every newspaper and magazine in America.
Opinion
Technology: it is revolutionizing the world around us. Today, self-motoring motorcars. Tomorrow, self-dirigible dirigibles. The telephone in your pocket and television in your home are at once jukebox, photo-booth, astrolabe, cinema, and library.
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In the aftermath of a tragic Thanksgiving accident, a fundraiser is being held for the family of artist and longtime School of Visual Arts faculty member Ron Baron.
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In a process that at this point is approaching farce, the Detroit Free Press is reporting that City of Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr demanded yesterday that the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) contribute to a city bankruptcy fund, despite the recent $680 million intervention on the DIA's behal
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The University of California's storied academic imprint is making freely available online 700 titles published between 1984 and 2004, Open Culture has reported.
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The National Endowment for the Arts is slated to receive a budget of $146.02 million per the 2014 Omnibus Appropriations bill released by Congress late yesterday. The figure is down from the Obama administration's proposed $154.47 million and roughly on par with 2013's allocation of $146.26 million.
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All is not well in Albion, where the business of art is apparently getting ever more lugubrious.