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This week in art news: Miami museums braced for Hurricane Irma, Dakota elders decided to bury the wooden remnants of Sam Durant's controversial "Scaffold" sculpture, and JR unveiled a monumental new work at the Mexico–US border.
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This week in art news: the NEH pledged $1 million in emergency relief funds for cultural organizations affected by Hurricane Harvey, LA City Council voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day, and William Eggleston announced plans to release an album of synth music.
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This week in art news: Charlottesville shrouded its Confederate monuments while other US cities removed theirs, the Village Voice revealed it will cease its print edition, and a museumgoer left a trail of blue footprints after stepping on an Yves Klein.
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This week in art news: cities across the US examined their holdings of Confederate monuments, "Trumpy the Rat" made its debut, and a de Kooning stolen in 1985 was recovered.
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This week in art news: unknown sketches by Giacometti were discovered, two members of Pussy Riot were detained by Russian police, and previously withheld documents related to JFK's assassination were made public.
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Damien Hirst's Shipwreck Fantasy Sinks in Venice
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable is supposed to be Hirst’s major comeback, a rebuke to his diminished popularity and slumping market value.
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This week in art news: Israeli authorities arrested five Palestinian art dealers suspected of selling looted antiquities to Hobby Lobby, six South Korean officials received prison sentences for blacklisting artists, and North Korea reportedly moved closer to completing Pyongyang's "Hotel of Doom."
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This week in art news: A group of artists and activists demanded the closure of the ICA Boston's Dana Schutz exhibition, an Andy Warhol painting owned by Alice Cooper was rediscovered in a storage locker, and arts writers and cultural figures accused The Village Voice’s owner of weakening its union.
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This week in art news: Artworks attributed to Modigliani were confiscated after being deemed fake, Spanish police recovered three stolen Francis Bacon paintings, and researchers claimed to detect particles indicative of torture on the Turin Shroud.
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This week in art news: A federal judge ordered $81 million be paid to victims of the Knoedler Gallery art forgery, an art investigator believes the work stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in Ireland, and an unpublished book by Maurice Sendak was discovered.
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This week in art news: a lawsuit between auctioneers revealed the true price of Gauguin's "Nafea Faa Ipoipo," Hobby Lobby was busted for smuggling ill-gotten Iraqi antiquities into the US, and the MFA Boston prepared to publicly restore a Ming Dynasty portrait of a demon queller.