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Dutch Soccer Hooligans Damage Historic Bernini Fountain in Rome
Dutch soccer fans wreaked havoc on Rome over the past two days, damaging a 17th-century fountain designed by Bernini and leaving the city's historic center strewn with trash.
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Art
An Exhibition Brings Us Face to Face with the War on Terror
LONDON — Outside The Mosaic Rooms, a small gallery and cultural center in Kensington, a red and white-striped air sock hangs improbably from the otherwise uniform stone façade.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: The sale of Ai Weiwei's gold-plated zodiac sculptures sets a new auction record for the artist, an artist charged with robbing a bank may get a museum exhibition, and Manhattan's so-called "Flower District" is the new Chelsea ... apparently.
Books
A Comic Book that Reads Like Sheet Music
Richard Kraft's Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera explodes off the page.
Interview
Christy Rupp on Rats, Geese, and the Ecology of Public Art
Christy Rupp burst onto the New York art scene with "Rat Patrol," a street art response to the sanitation strike of 1979.
Comics
The Questions that Never Go Away
There's always going to be those questions.
In Brief
When Arty Music Videos Rip Off Artists
Another day, another artist's work is put to commercial use without permission.
Art
A Disappeared Houdini Film Escapes from Obscurity
The great escape artist Harry Houdini starred in five silent films in the early 20th century, but one considered among his best was long considered lost — until now.
Art
10 Stellar Culture Documentaries the Oscars Snubbed
Here is my roundup, not only of films from the last year but of the past decade. These are films that you may have missed in theatres, never saw because they got a one week showing in NYC and LA and nowhere else, or that were simply too far below the radar.
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New Tally Shows Sexism Alive and Well at Top NYC Art Galleries
Curator Maura Reilly posted an image of compiled gallery gender statistics on Facebook today, a "report card" by anonymous feminist art collective Pussy Galore showing the percentages of women represented by some of the top art galleries in New York City.
In Brief
French Museums Spar Over Goya Paintings
A small museum in southwestern France has just gained a Goya thanks to a new authentication that's left a different French museum with a mere copy.
Art
Abstraction that Invites Speculation
When I walked into Emily Roysdon’s latest exhibition, If Only a Wave, at Participant Inc., I initially felt like I might not be able to decipher the work.