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Last night, The Illuminator was in Manhattan's Meatpacking District to project mayday messages on the facade of the soon-to-be-opened Whitney Museum, while a group of two dozen protesters supported by 23 sponsoring organizations launched a guerrilla inauguration for the "fracked gas pipe museum."
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We took a look at the cultural and gender breakdowns of all the artists in the Whitney Museum's inaugural exhibition in its new building to assess how fresh these perspectives really are.
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MEXICO CITY — As the US economy has picked up steam in the last few years, falling oil prices and a stronger dollar have left the peso floundering.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, a Santa Monica mainstay re-opens on the east side, a Chicago performance artist makes his first appearance in LA, Richard Kraft unleashes "100 Walkers" on West Hollywood, and more.
Art
John Wilkes Booth was 26 years old when he shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC 150 years ago today.
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On Tuesday morning civil rights lawyer Ronald Kuby and NYC Park Advocates president Geoffrey Croft held a press conference in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park demanding the return of the sculpture bust of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden that three artists illegally installed there last week.
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LONDON — Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector, on view at London’s Barbican Centre, draws on the common desire to make sense of people through their objects.
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Save for his unusual name, Ralph Eugene Meatyard had all the trappings of an ordinary man.
Opinion
Although it only started in March, the Twitter account @MedievalReacts has soared to over 270,000 followers — all because it takes images without attribution from libraries and other sources and pairs them with punchy, modern text.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: Castle manager disappears 58 paintings, art thief returns loot to restaurant, opera company sells bronze sculpture for scrap.
Art
The Metropolitan Museum has mounted a show of 137 rare pieces of art of the Plains Indians, on loan from 58 different international collections.
Art
This week, Kehinde Wiley and DJ Spooky join forces in Brooklyn, play Game of Thrones bingo with fellow fans, watch some anarchist art, figure out where the wild books are, explore Nordic prints, and more.