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Tate Reveals Surprisingly Low Sum of BP Sponsorship Deal [UPDATED]

After years of legal wrangling, the Tate museums group has finally disclosed the details of its sponsorship agreement with oil company BP.

Comics

Hazardous Waste Cookies, Crying, Cinema, and Chicken

I made 55 hazardous waste cookies for a children's film festival.

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Spain's Art-for-Taxes Program Only Works When the Art's Good

If taxes sound taxing to you, consider this alternative: move to Spain, purchase valuable and culturally significant artworks, and donate them to the Spanish government in lieu of tax. Just make sure they're really significant artworks.

Art

The Darkness Behind Niki de Saint Phalle's Colorful Beauties

Niki de Saint Phalle was half French, half American, and bilingual, but who was she?

News

Researchers Find Way to Read Papyrus Texts Buried at Herculaneum for the First Time

Only one library from the classical world is known to have survived along with its texts: the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. Ever since its discovery in 1754, archaeologists have attempted to crack open the villa's carbonized texts with knives, chemicals, and unrolling machines, all with little

Opinion

Required Reading

This week, artists and drones, archiving the web, Russian art manifestos, the lies of American Sniper, modern life, and more.

Opinion

Weekend Words: Sweat

On Tuesday, Hyperallergic's Benjamin Sutton reported that a civil court in Antwerp has convicted Luc Tuymans of copyright infringement for appropriating an image by photojournalist Katrijn Van Giel for his painting, “A Belgian Politician” (2011).

Art

Weekend Studio Visit: Louise Belcourt in Williamsburg, New York

Despite the hue and cry about zombie formalism, there is a lot of very good painting going on these days.

Music

Fifty Shades of Lana Del Rey

For many, the mere existence of Lizzie Grant and her alter ego Lana Del Rey serves as a cold slap in the face to the big-budget feminist empowerment campaign enacted by even richer and more famous people like Beyoncé and Lady Gaga.

Art

From the Deep South, an Overlooked Chapter in Art History

ATLANTA — Is Bill Arnett enjoying the last laugh?

Art

Shadow and Substance: Patrick Killoran’s Faustian Bargain

Broadly embracing the Minimal, the Conceptual, and the Relational, Patrick Killoran’s solo exhibition at Studio 10 zeroes in on the unlikeliest of subjects — contract law — with an off-kilter braininess that turns each piece into a game of mental catch-up.

Opinion

Artists Confront the Uncomfortable Legacy of Lenin

This week, two men made headlines when they doused the tomb of the Soviet Union's first leader Vladimir Lenin with holy water while reportedly shouting "Rise up and leave!"