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This week in art news: courtroom sketches from the Knoedler forgery trial went on public display, artists came out in support of Apple's decision not to give the FBI access to users' encrypted data, and a painter in France found a drawing in a bottle that was thrown into New York Harbor two and a ha
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This week in art news: Ai Weiwei's new refugee-themed artworks and actions drew sharp criticism, Spain ruled that an alleged accomplice in the Knoedler Gallery affair can be extradited to the US, and the Metropolitan Museum defended its widely ridiculed new logo.
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Agitprop! ought to be an outstanding exhibition of politically engaged art. A feverish amalgam of historic and contemporary artwork, the exhibition is undermined by an ambitious but poorly executed curatorial strategy.
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This week in art news: Utah moved closer to designating "Spiral Jetty" its official state artwork, the Queens Museum announced it will give legendary punk group the Ramones a retrospective, and a mouse died at the Museum of English Rural Life after crawling into a historic mousetrap.
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This week in art news: Jeremy Deller and Fraser Muggeridge raised a smiley face flag over London, the Knoedler forgery trial began with testimony from art world heavy-hitters, and the dissident Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky was sent to a psychiatric hospital.
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This week in art news: the Metropolitan Museum revealed details of its modern and contemporary art wing expansion, hundreds of Art Students League members filed a lawsuit over the $31.8-million sale of the school's air rights, and Josh Kline's sculpture "Po-Po" graced the cover of Fatima Al Qadiri's
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This week in art news: revisiting William Boyd and David Bowie's art world hoax, Stephen Colbert interviews the Guerrilla Girls, and Larry Gagosian sues the royal family of Qatar over a Picasso sculpture.
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Human Instamatic, the first museum retrospective of Martin Wong’s work since his death in 1999, is an insightful celebration of one of New York’s most underappreciated painters.
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This week in art news: Joel Goodman's photograph of British New Year's revelers went viral, a representative of Beyoncé denied that the singer is planning to star in a biopic on Saartjie Baartman, and 30 museums in Southern California will offer free admission on January 30.
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This week in art news: a fire at Brazil's Museum of the Portuguese Language left one dead, the family of art dealer Daniel Wildenstein braced for a trial over $600M in tax fraud and money laundering, and archivists preserved artworks left in the streets of Paris after last month's terror attacks.
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This week in art news: New Orleans City Council voted to remove four confederate monuments, a Vasudeo S. Gaitonde painting set a new auction record for an Indian artwork, and Ed Ruscha donated a collection of his prints to the Tate.
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This week in art news: Banksy unveiled new works at a refugee camp in France, the Rijksmuseum began removing offensive and racially charged terms from its digitized collection, and the National Parks Service is looking to hire a full-time photographer for a salary of up to $99,296 a year.