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This week in art news: Florida's museums braced for Hurricane Matthew, Sotheby's declared a purported Frans Hals painting fake, and a restitution claim was filed against the Metropolitan Museum over Picasso's "The Actor."
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This week in art news: Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi was sentenced to 9–11 years in prison for attacking historic sites in Timbuktu, Ottawa police are investigating the death of acclaimed Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook, and David Shrigley's "Really Good" was unveiled atop London's Fourth Plinth.
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This week in art news: Ai Weiwei's lawyer was jailed for 12 years, a fire tore through Stockholm's Royal Institute of Art, and a statue of Vladimir Lenin was removed from the East Village.
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This week in art news: the heirs of the sitter in a Matisse portrait sued the UK's National Gallery, London's deputy mayor for culture floated a proposal to establish "creative enterprise zones," and Maurizio Cattelan installed a functioning 18-karat gold toilet at the Guggenheim.
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This week in art news: "American Gothic" will leave the US for the first time ever, Tate was forced to reveal the value of its BP sponsorship, and a model of 1666 London was burned along the river Thames.
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Artist Anton van Dalen on the East Village, Saul Steinberg, and Pigeon Keeping
Next time you’re walking through the East Village, take a moment to look up at the skies over Tompkins Square Park. You might just spot Anton van Dalen’s flock of snow-white pigeons. The artist, who first learned to rear the birds at the age of twelve, is one of the few remaining pigeon keepers in L
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This week in art news: Italy lobbied to have Venice excluded from UNESCO's list of endangered heritage sites, a makeup artist and model sued Richard Prince for copyright infringement, and the Portland Art Museum revealed plans to repatriate an 18th-century painting to Korea.
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This week in art news: a former Malian rebel leader pleaded guilty to cultural destruction at the International Criminal Court, Italy will give all teenage residents €500 to spend on culture for their 18th birthdays, and Banksy's "Spy Booth" mural was removed and possibly destroyed.
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5Pointz Owner Reneges on Promise to Use Union Labor, Sparking Protest
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Long Island City yesterday to protest the almost complete absence of unionized workers at the 5Pointz redevelopment site — despite a promise by the project’s developer that he would only employ union workers for the job.
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This week in art news: Tyree Guyton revealed plans to dismantle Detroit's Heidelberg Project, Marina Abramović excised a passage disparaging Aboriginal Australians from her forthcoming memoir, and a search began in Poland for a Nazi train full of gold.
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This week in art news: A painting of a pregnant woman by Lisa Yuskavage was censored on the cover of Vault magazine, Israel's supreme court ruled that Franz Kafka's manuscripts belong to the National Library of Israel, and Mark Wallinger installed a mirror on the ceiling of Sigmund Freud’s study.
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This week in art news: artist Giancarlo Neri lost funding for his Olympic art installation, Turkish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan was arrested as part of President Erdogan’s crackdown in the wake of last month’s failed coup d’état, and a long-lost copper engraving by Albrecht Dürer was recovered