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A Roy Lichtenstein, Missing for 42 Years, Is Found
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's "Electric Cord" (1961), which mysteriously disappeared in January 1970, has been found.
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French Government Backs Away from Taxing Art as Wealth
A proposal for an amendment that would tax art worth over $65,175 ran into immediate controversy in France from museums and cultural officials. The government is now backing far away from the change in the tax code, which has the potential to discourage donations of art to institutions, the Sun Dail
Opinion
Just in Time for Tonight's Presidential Debate
Some Williamburgers aren't happy with the idea of a Romney presidency but they're not exactly thrilled with Obama either.
Art
Is Aboriginal Abstraction Modernist?
Clement Greenberg definitely wouldn’t approve of the new exhibition Crossing Cultures at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum in Hanover, New Hampshire. The works highlighted in the show, all created by indigenous Australian artists, present elaborate, striking abstractions that are compulsively addictiv
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Abandoned Old Masters Paintings
In these fascinating series of works, Hungarian new media artist Bence Hajdu has removed the figures from a series of Old Masters classics with such precision that it's almost hard to believe.
News
Picasso, Matisse and Monet Among 7 Masterpieces Stolen from Dutch Museum
According to a brief that BNO News translated from the Dutch police, seven works of art were stolen from the Kunsthal Rotterdam in Holland this morning. The massive art heist includes pieces by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, and Lucian Freud, among others.
Art
Capturing Time
BERKELEY, California — Keeping Time is a large group exhibition at Kala Gallery documenting and exploring creative ways of expressing or marking time from the obvious to the poetic. Although the science of keeping time has fascinated many for centuries, the intensely subjective nature of experientia
Art
Art Rx
Don't worry, honeys. The doctor knows you're getting the first bit of a fall cold, and she's got just the thing to make you feel better. She's keeping it calm this week, with lots of panel discussions and talks that will have you mulling things over while you sip your tea. Try thinking about art-sch
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Artists Ask What It Means to Like, Share, Follow
In an ideal social media universe, Facebook users would feel comfortable enough to openly tell all of their friends whether or not they’re organ donors, what they're up to this weekend, and if they are in a relationship, single, or looking. There would be no Facebook stalkers or strange friend reque
Performance
Picasso at His Most Surreal
Last night and tonight, the Guggenheim is staging two special, performance-like readings of Pablo Picasso’s obscure play, “Desire Caught by the Tail,” as part of the museum’s Works & Process series.
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The Politics of Taste: Expanding Your Palate
Out of all the human senses, taste is often the least understood. Some of us eat purely to sustain ourselves, while others eat as a central joy in their lives. Now a new interdisciplinary conference seeks to focus on desire's palate, and taste is being placed under the microscope as an important par
Opinion
Watch a Facebook Photo Go Viral
There are now more than one billion people using Facebook every month, and there's no doubt that a huge number of them are sharing photos. To help illustrate what that means, the company teamed up with design studio Stamen to create animated visualizations of three different pictures going viral. Th