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This week in art news: The Barnes discovers two new Cézannes, the US returns a stolen Picasso to France, and a professional basketball team drops $8 million on a Koons.
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This week in art news: The sale of Ai Weiwei's gold-plated zodiac sculptures sets a new auction record for the artist, an artist charged with robbing a bank may get a museum exhibition, and Manhattan's so-called "Flower District" is the new Chelsea ... apparently.
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Christy Rupp on Rats, Geese, and the Ecology of Public Art
Christy Rupp burst onto the New York art scene with "Rat Patrol," a street art response to the sanitation strike of 1979.
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This week in art news: A 6.5-ton ground-to-air missile was installed beside London's Hayward Gallery, an appellate court ruled in favor of the Met's "pay what you wish" policy, and a Jeff Koons exhibition was cancelled due to "a lack of funding."
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This week in art news: MoMA announced 24-hour access to its Matisse cut-outs exhibition, the Manhattan district attorney's office subpoenaed several galleries for their sales tax investigation, and a Gauguin painting is rumored to have sold for $300 million.
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This week in art news: Firefighters freed an artist from a plaster block during a botched street art project, a French schoolteacher sues Facebook in a row over Courbet's most infamous painting, and a Banksy impersonator is on the loose in England.
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This week in art news: The Hergé Museum cancels its Charlie Hebdo exhibition, Sotheby's and Christie's reported record sales, and an artist hired stuntmen to destroy his exhibition.
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This week in art news: Nestlé filed a trademark infringement claim against artist Anthony Antonellis, the much beloved Showpaper ceases publication, and a Zaha Hadid building in Vienna is shedding its exterior.
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This week in art news: The Belvedere Torso is to travel to the UK for the first time, a London college is offering the world's first-ever course on selfies, and a punk band recovered a stolen George Rodrigue "Blue Dog" painting.
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This week in art news: Smithsonian digitization, street artist Blu destroys one of his own murals, and MoMA decides to display a 60-panel work of art for the first time in twenty years.
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Novel Takes on a Blue-Chip Art Collection in Queens
Thematic exhibitions present a unique dilemma; if a curator follows a theme too rigidly, the exhibition can become stifling. If applied too loosely, the curator essentially undermines their own role.
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This week in art news: A vandal was sentenced to five years in prison for punching a hole through a Claude Monet painting, a suit against Larry Gagosian was dismissed, and a Winnie-the-Pooh drawing sets an auction record for an original book illustration.