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Nearly 1,000 UK Artists Commit to Cultural Boycott of Israel
Some 1,000 British artists have signed on to a cultural boycott of Israel, pledging their "support [for] the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality."
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UN Security Council Takes Aim at ISIS Antiquities Trafficking
Last week the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution to curb the trade of looted antiquities from Iraq and Syria. UN Security Council Resolution 2199 prohibits the trade of artifacts illegally removed from Syria since 2011 and Iraq since 1990.
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Peter Zumthor's Minimalist Museum for Zinc Mining Takes Shape in Norway
Set to open in the summer of 2016, a sleek museum designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for a Norwegian zinc mine has been over a decade in the making, although parts of the attraction are already in place.
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ArtRx NYC
This week may be freezing in New York, but things are heating up in the art world with a symposium on Nazis looted art, the importance of Brooklyn painting, the Chinese Lunar New York, bootlegged art, and more.
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A Digital Waterfall That Illuminates the Threat of Air Pollution
Artist Andrea Polli's "Particle Falls" is a waterfall of light that changes colors from blue to flaming reds and yellows based on real time air quality data.
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Painting as Protest on Mexico's Walls
In the 1920s and ’30s, Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco painted murals that powerfully illustrated the issues of their day. Today, street artists rule the nation’s walls.
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Where the Library Gets Its Books
Up on a hill in a guarded compound, not far from where Harvard University keeps its primate labs, a 127,000-square-foot structure holds the heart of the institution's library.
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Julie Buffalohead's Theater of Animals
ST. PAUL, Minnesota — Julie Buffalohead envisions a world filled with tutu-wearing raccoons, sassy rabbits, and other anthropomorphic animals.
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Picturing a Communist Revolution in the US
Different artists disagree as to how communist convictions are best or most effectively visualized, and the best part of The Left Front is the methodological tension that underwrites the varied approaches on display.
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Photographer Sends Cease and Desist Letters to Richard Prince and Gagosian
Hyperallergic has learned that a lawyer representing photographer Donald Graham has sent cease and desist letters to Richard Prince and the Gagosian Gallery over the unauthorized use of his photograph "Rastafarian Smoking a Joint, Jamaica."
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Anish Kapoor's new perpetual whirlpool, Ruscha's lost rock art, artists who stayed in Nazi Germany, Beck and Warhol, why the dollar sign is an S, and more.