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LA’s New Contemporary Art Museum Celebrates a Flexible, Collectionless Model
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, located in a converted clothing factory on the edge of the Arts District, officially opens on September 9.
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Artist Turns Police Cruiser into a Tribute to Law & Order Detective Lennie Briscoe
For "ORBACH1," Brandon Bird transformed a formerly black 2008 police cruiser found on Craigslist into an airbrushed rolling masterpiece commemorating his hero.
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Winner of a BP Portrait Award Donates Share of Prize Money to Anti-BP Protests
The 26-year-old winner of this year's BP Young Artist Award donated £1,000 to fund Greenpeace's anti-BP efforts.
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Folk Artist and Abolitionist Sheldon Peck to Be Honored with Historic Marker
A roadside marker in Jordan, New York, will commemorate the former home of 19th-century folk artist and abolitionist Sheldon Peck.
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What We Lose and Gain in Recreating Antiquities
In his exhibition at at Galeria Mascota, Miguel Angel Salazar revives a cenotaph, showing that it's both easier than ever to rewrite history, and more difficult to erase it.
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A Mobile Museum Brings Miniature Art to Rural Vermont
Matt Neckers’s Mobile Museum is a mimic which can also be read as a caricature and critique of the modern museum’s banality.
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Provocative Nat Turner-Inspired Portraits Fuel Debate After Their Removal
Following an employee complaint, Stephen Towns removed his paintings from his solo show at Rosenberg Gallery. The decision has since inspired some much-needed dialogue.
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Art Movements
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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Japanese Company Creates Robot Priest to Administer Your Last Rites
Plastics manufacturer Nissei Eco introduced Pepper last month, a robe-donning robot trained to recite prayers and scripture while tapping a little drum.
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Liquitex Invites Artists to Take the Cadmium-Free Challenge
Liquitex cadmium-free acrylic paints give you the same performance, lightfastness and vibrancy as existing cadmium paints - they’re just safer for you.
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18th-Century Nautical Charts Show Radical Coral Reef Loss in Florida
Researchers compared 18th-century nautical charts to contemporary ocean data, revealing a dramatic loss of Florida's coral reefs.
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Art Provocateurs Hang “Ku Klux Klowns” in Virginia’s Capital [UPDATED]
The anonymous art collective Indecline hung eight clowns dressed in KKK robes from a tree in Richmond, Virginia.