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The Donald Threatens to Sue Artist Over Her Trump Micropenis Portrait
The artist who gave the world a drawing of a nude Donald Trump with a small penis is facing a potential lawsuit from Trump's legal team if the painting sells.
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Instant Photographs Stripped of Their Instantaneity
HONG KONG — A Permanent Instant at Blindspot Gallery in Wong Chuk Hang gathers works by 10 artists raised or born in Hong Kong who have experimented with the medium of instant photography.
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Martin Parr Photographs Real, Sad Food
Limp slices of bread smeared with butter, a single sausage lounging in orange soup, a presentation of pork knuckles resembling discarded brains — this is far from the stuff you'd find on the menu of your local farm-to-table eatery filled with upcycled furniture.
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The Personal and Poetic Prints of a Female Pioneer of Copier Art
GLENSIDE, Pa. — I was not particularly excited to see a show of copier art. How different could the images of these photocopies be from the actual copies themselves?
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Harriet Tubman Bumps Slave-Owning Andrew Jackson Off Front of $20 Bill
The president who signed the Indian Removal Act, which pushed thousands of indigenous people off their land through events like the Trail of Tears, and owned over 100 slaves, will finally get his own removal from his central place on the American $20 bill.
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Watch a Weed Artist Sculpt a Beautiful Unicorn Joint
The Oregon-based Greenhand — perhaps the Michelangelo of joint rolling — toked himself into cannabis culture fame in 2014 after posting an image of his Sherlock Joint to Reddit.
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Art Center Brings Tourism and Unwanted Attention to a Oaxacan Village
SAN AGUSTÍN ETLA, Mexico — I arrived in San Agustín as if in a dream, after taking an overnight bus from Mexico City that pulled into the sleepy capital of Oaxaca before sunrise.
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Artists Protest Collector's Takeover of Indian Museum
BENGALURU, India — In July of last year, an agreement was signed to turn control of one of the oldest public art galleries in this city of 11.5 million over to a private foundation.
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Meet the Sisters of the Valley, California's Radical Weed-Growing "Nuns"
Sister Kate and Sister Darcy, a pair of self-ordained new age "nuns" based in Merced, California, are on a holy mission: help make "marijuana a healing industry instead of a stoner industry," as they recently put it.
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Scarred Rejects from the Farm Security Administration's Great Depression Photos
Spend some time browsing the 145,000 negatives at the Library of Congress from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and an odd pattern will emerge.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: police took down a noose art installation, the leader of a Chinese antiquities looting ring was sentenced to death, and someone stole a public sculpture of a porcupine.
Art
What’s the Value of Recreating the Palmyra Arch with Digital Technology?
Seven months after ISIS destroyed Palmyra’s 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph, the structure has risen once more — this time 2,800 miles away from the ancient city, in London’s bustling Trafalgar Square.