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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Warhols go missing in Los Angeles, a papier-mâché cat goes up in flames, and vandals attack a dystopian equestrian sculpture.
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A Granite Sculptor's Last and Largest Work Completed in His Memory
On June 15, Jesús Moroles was driving from his home in Rockport, Texas, to Chickasha, Oklahoma, to continue work on the largest granite project of his career when he was killed in a car crash.
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British Museum’s First Commissioned Caribbean Sculptures Tower Over Its Great Court
Wander into the British Museum’s Great Court these days, and you’ll encounter two large, black and gold Moko Jumbie sculptures guarding the staircases on either side.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, a show of seldom-seen work from legendary artist Jack Goldstein opens, an artist builds towers and walls out of his paintings, both the Pasadena Armory and the Torrance Art Museum are having art sales, and more.
Art
Astrological Aesthetics: September 2015 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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US Customs Officials Confiscate Sculpture Made of Weapons
A legal battle is brewing over a sculpture by Mozambican artist Gonçalo Mabunda after customs officials, considering it a weapon, confiscated it from its owner.
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ArtRx NYC: Fall Guide
Welcome to Hyperallergic's first ever New York Art Guide for fall 2015.
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Hermann Nitsch's “Leviticus” Now on View at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art’s installation features Hermann Nitsch’s large scale book "Leviticus" opened to the segment describing the High Priest’s sacrificial service.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6OTMyNjAsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyOTg2MjAsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIj
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Decaying Barns Transformed into Art
PORT AUSTIN, Mich. — The lakeside town of Port Austin, MI, is not what you’d call a bustling cultural center — more like a humble and self-assured farming community off the beaten track, where, as everyone likes to tell you, over and over, you can see the sun rise and set over Lake Huron all in the
Books
How the First Illustrated English Book Described the Universe
The first illustrated English book was ambitious, describing large ideas like the roundness of the Earth and why we experience day and night.
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Anish Kapoor's Versailles Sculpture Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Slurs
Anish Kapoor’s "Dirty Corner" (2011–15) sculpture in the gardens of Palace of Versailles has been vandalized again but this time with offensive words, including anti-Semitic slurs.
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New Bushwick Gallery Promises to Exhibit "Subversive and Difficult Art"
A new gallery is opening on Meserole Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, next month, and according to its eponymous director, Christopher Stout, it will have a “program of showing subversive and difficult art.”