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This week in art news: San Francisco's Academy of Art University agreed to pay the city a $60-million settlement, a Manhattan art dealer was charged with trafficking illegal antiquities, and the first UK exhibition dedicated to the Moomins opened in London.
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This week in art news: ISIS recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the release of two jailed Tehran gallerists, and an 18th-century Chinese seal sold for $22 million at auction — over 20 times its estimate.
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This week in art news: Swiss authorities seized antiquities looted from Palmyra, dozens of artists were evicted from a Baltimore studio building, and the mayor of the Greek island of Milos demanded the Louvre return the Venus de Milo.
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This week in art news: a museum discovered that an 800-year-old Mixtec skull in its collection is a forgery, Iran barred works from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art from leaving the country, and Zaha Hadid Architects distanced itself from principal Patrik Schumacher's pro-gentrification comment
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In 1975, artist Bas Jan Ader attempted to sail across the Atlantic. The discovery of his boat 10 months later sparked a fetishistic fascination with his disappearance.
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This week in art news: Giorgio Vasari's "Last Supper" was reinstalled 50 years after being damaged by flooding, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned a white nationalist conference that took place nearby, and David Hockney was commissioned to create a stained glass window for Westminster Abbey.
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This week in art news: a portrait of Donald Trump on a toilet caused a bomb scare, the Whitney Museum released its list of participants for next year's Biennial, and Ohad Meromi's controversial sculpture "The Sunbather" was installed in Queens.
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This week in art news: artists responded to the election of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin unveiled a giant statue of Vladimir the Great, and the Royal Ontario Museum apologized for the "colonial, racist and Eurocentric premises" of a 1989 exhibition.
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This week in art news: Pablo Picasso's former electrician admitted he lied in court about how he obtained hundreds of the artist's works, Barbara Kruger created a new work featuring Donald Trump for the cover of New York magazine, and Carel Fabritius's beloved painting "The Goldfinch" went on displa
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This week in art news: London’s mayor announced plans to help artists secure long-term studio spaces, restorers discovered a previously unknown work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at the Städel Museum, and Pussy Riot released a new track titled “Straight Outta Vagina."
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This week in art news: French prosecutors sought a four-year prison sentence and €250-million fine for art dealer Guy Wildenstein, another lawsuit over a Knoedler Gallery forgery was settled, and David Nahmad claimed ownership of a Monet seized by the US Department of Justice.
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This week in art news: two new studies suggested that China's Terracotta Warriors were inspired by Ancient Greek sculpture, England scrapped its only remaining Art History A-level exam, and researchers found a long-lost film by Georges Méliès.