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“We’re like the roadies of the art world,” states Shane Caffrey in his 2010 video announcement for the first Art Handling Olympics. “It’s not an art piece, it’s a community event … it’s a thing for a community that has never really had any chance to get together.”
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This week in art news: the Art Miami fair was flooded following torrential rain, forger Shaun Greenhalgh claimed to have created a work attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, and artist Stefan Glerum designed two 60-foot stained glass facades for a new housing project in Amsterdam.
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This week in art news: the ancient city of Petra was added to Google Street View, Scotland Yard opened its "Black Museum" of historic crime artifacts to the public, and the US government is sued over lost footage of JFK's assassination.
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This week in art news: Over 4,500 objects from the British Museum can now be viewed online, MoMA returns a Kirchner stolen from a Jewish collector by the Nazis, and Sotheby's prepares for a sale of Star Wars memorabilia.
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This week in art news: London's Science Museum decided not to renew its sponsorship deal with Shell, Russian artist and activist Pyotr Pavlensky was detained for setting fire to the entrance of Moscow's FSB headquarters, and Laurie Anderson and Sophie Calle got hitched.
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This week in art news: Sotheby's sold the world's largest cat painting for $826,000, the V&A Museum denied rejecting a collection of Margaret Thatcher's clothing, and a long-lost Disney cartoon was discovered at the BFI National Archive.
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This week in art news: monumental sculptures by Deborah Kass and Hank Willis Thomas were commissioned for sites near the Brooklyn Bridge, Goldsmiths endowed six scholarships in response to Europe's migrant crisis, and a new Tumblr collected the nastiest museum reviews on Yelp.
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This week in art news: a photo of the iceberg believed to have sunk the Titanic headed for auction, the mystery behind an intriguing new emoji was solved, and a blockbuster exhibition marking Hieronymus Bosch's 500th birthday was announced.
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In 1968, Seth Siegelaub and John Wendler published the first edition of the so-called "Xerox Book." The untitled publication, which was conceived as an exhibition in itself — and is currently the subject of a show at Paula Cooper Gallery — is now considered a seminal artist book.
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This week in art news: Lawrence Weiner installed a series of works in an 18th-century British palace, a museum researcher defended his decision to kill a rare bird for scientific study, and Playboy decided to cease publishing images of nude women.
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This week in art news: a rare Tintin drawing sold for $1.25 million, the UK's first glow-in-the-dark skate park was unveiled, and a rude portrait was found on the back of a Picasso painting.
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This week in art news: Trevor Paglen unveiled a new sculpture of radiated glass, the Basquiat estate demanded a website take down nude photos of the artist, and two cases related to the Knoedler Gallery's alleged sale of forgeries will go to trial.