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This week in art news: an Irma Stern painting that was being used as a noticeboard is found in a London flat, Rome's Trevi Fountain is crawling with rats, and Chinese authorities issued Ai Weiwei a new passport.
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Finally, a Forum on Resale Royalties Brings Artists into the Conversation
Spurred by the reintroduction of the ART Act (American Royalties Too) to Congress, last night Artists Space hosted a public forum on the issue of artist resale royalties (ARRs).
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Hans Haacke on "Gift Horse," Gulf Labor, and Artist Resale Royalties
Early last March, London’s Conservative mayor Boris Johnson unveiled Hans Haacke’s “Gift Horse,” the tenth commission installed on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth.
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This week in art news: George Baselitz threatened to withdraw all loans of his work from German museums, an artist was left dangling naked from a tree when a video piece went awry, and the Rutgers Geology Museum restored its specimen of an 11-foot giant spider crab.
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This week in art news: Egyptian citizens railed against an ugly statue of Nefertiti, Random International's "Rain Room" will travel to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn acquired the Art Workers' Coalition's iconic "Q. And babies?" poster.
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This week in art news: a number of rock paintings were documented for the first time in Colombia's Chiribiquete national park, David Shrigley designed a mascot for the Partick Thistle football club, and New York's Stonewall Inn received landmark status.
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This week in art news: The British Library provided free online access to all 239 issues of feminist zine Spare Rib (1972–93), Vice hired Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova as a columnist, and Israel's first museum devoted to contemporary Arab art opened.
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This week in art news: CBC News host Evan Solomon was fired for secretly brokering art sales, MCA Australia cancelled its Marina Abramović retrospective, and the world's earliest known cello went on display at the Met Museum.
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This week in art news: Art Spiegelman withdrew his cover for the New Statesman, the Frick Collection abandoned its expansion plans, and Glenn Lowry's $2.1 million salary was scrutinized in the wake of MoMA's staff protests.
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This week in art news: The Suicide Girls sell their Instagram prints for charity in response to Richard Prince's appropriation of their posts, Maya Angelou's art collection heads to auction, and artist Darren Cullen announced plans for an anti-Margaret Thatcher museum in London.
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This week in art news: A mural was unveiled to coincide with Ireland's same-sex marriage referendum, New York's City Council passed a bill that requires open hearings on public art projects, and the FBI published a (heavily redacted) selection of its files on Buckminster Fuller.
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This week in art news: The Isabella Stewart Gardner puts up $100,000 to get a stolen Napoleonic eagle back, convicted art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi prepares for his first solo exhibition, and Christie's sold over a billion dollars worth of art.