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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Forever 21 rips off an artist's work for a T-shirt design, a museumgoer snaps off part of a Dale Chihuly sculpture, and two Goyas go missing.
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New Guidelines Help Museums Safeguard Works Threatened by War and Disaster
The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) released a list of protocols for museums to help protect artworks or archaeological objects that are currently at risk of destruction.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a screening of Lizzie Borden's feminist masterpiece Born in Flames, over 20 venues in Pasadena open their doors for a night of art, a show of work by legendary LA artist Charles Garabedian opens, and more.
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A Reverential Close-up of Robert Frank Leaves Questions Unasked
In its day, Auguste Rodin’s now esteemed 1876 sculpture "The Bronze Age" roused the considerable ill will of art critics, most notably for the belief that it was cast from a live model.
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The British Government’s Only Woman Artist in WWII Finally Gets a Retrospective
Evelyn Dunbar was the only woman to be salaried as an Official British War Artist during World War II, painting and sketching images of the home front, particularly the Women's Land Army where civilians were employed in agriculture to fill in for absent soldiers.
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A Terra-cotta Antiquity that Arrived at a Turkish Museum by Mail
On August 26, the Antalya Museum in Konyaaltı, Turkey, received an unexpected package from Vienna.
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Boston’s #RenoirSucksAtPainting Protesters Say Exhibiting the Impressionist Is “Aesthetic Terrorism"
Another day, another protest at a museum. Not against labor conditions, the treatment of museum staff, or kimonos, however, but this time against Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the over-4,000 paintings the French painter executed over his lifetime, and their prominence in museums around the world.
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Witnessing the Passage of Time with Detritus and a Crumbling "David"
The elevator opens onto a dark, shrouded foyer. A few steps in and one encounters quite unexpectedly the large, gloomy front room of Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas’s first solo exhibition, Two Suns, at the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
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Diagrammatic Paintings of Curious Contraptions
Henry Gunderson first made waves in his hometown of San Francisco a couple years ago with eccentric, surreal paintings of humanoid animals that I recall often stumbling upon on various image-sharing websites.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, you can join us for our Decolonizing Museums discussion at Livestream, attend Brooklyn's underground performance art fest, welcome Jim Shaw to the New Museum, or listen to "genius" Nicole Eisenman talk about her work.
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A Hidden Estonian "Forest Library" for Listening to Nature
Around 50% of Estonia is covered in forest.