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Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: vandals tag a Munich museum with swastikas, hunters venture onto Texan museum's grounds, and a public sculpture is mysteriously beheaded.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, the Hammer Museum hosts a two-day music and performance festival, Marcia Hafif's long overdue exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum closes, the Women's Center for Creative Work begins its residency at the Armory Center for the Arts, and more.
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Dubai Pop-up Gallery Cashes In on Palmyra Tragedy
The exhibition Once Upon a Time Palmyra: The Pearl of the Desert at Portfolio, with photography by Emmanuel Catteau, owner of the space, capitalizes on the recent Palmyra-related and features his 2006 snapshots from the historic site.
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Artists and Activists Trace Boston's Historic Red Line on the Streets
BOSTON — There is brick dust everywhere: on shoes, on clothes, on the street. Most of it makes it into the field chalker, which has already marked three miles of sidewalk.
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Complex and Gnarly Subjects at a Hong Kong Art Festival
HONG KONG — Taking the temperature of the art at Hong Kong South Island Art Day 2015, the thermometer reads hot and feisty. Young Hong Kong artists also appear bruised — with Occupy Central, self immolations in Tibet, the fractious situation with mainland China, and the more droll issues of their gl
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Rare 1915 Films Show Rodin, Monet, Renoir, and Degas in Their Twilight Years
In 1915, with the newly innovated film camera, a young Russian-born, French actor named Sacha Guitry captured some of France's greatest artists and authors.
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Outside the Frame: Virginia Commonwealth University’s Dynamic Photography and Film MFA
VCU’s nationally ranked Department of Photography & Film MFA program seeks dynamic emerging artists whose work challenges common definitions of photography and film while maintaining the disciplinary integrity of traditional practice.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MjEyMTIsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjA
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New Service Will Preserve and Frame Your Tattoos After You Die
You may now bequeath your tattoos to your loved ones to frame and display, just like any other work of art that you value or that may be a family heirloom.
Opinion
The Social Commentary Hidden in Kanye West and Vanessa Beecroft’s Fashion Show
In the blur of fabric and fanfare that was New York Fashion Week, Kanye West’s second Yeezy show caused the most confusion of all.
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ArtRx NYC
This week brings a whole lot of good stuff, from a conversation between two feminist artist icons to a celebration of the idiosyncrasies of contemporary painting.
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Trump’s Menstrala Art Moment: A Short History of Election Art
In certain parlors, the mixing of art and politics is considered vulgar. If so, then vulgarity reigns supreme in the memory of recent presidential elections.
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Painting Murals on a 250-Year-Old Farmhouse to Preserve It
Staten Island's Historic Richmond Town is experimenting with an unconventional way of preserving an 18th-century farmhouse: inviting local artists to paint contemporary murals across the structure.