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Museum Plans to Burn 1,000 Art Works to Protest Cuts
Various news services are reporting that a museum in Italy is waging an "art war" in protest of funding cuts and they've started burning 1,000 artworks.
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Dealer Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Egyptian Antiquities into US
A Brooklyn antiquities dealer Mousa Khouli, 38, pleaded guilty today to smuggling Egyptian cultural property into the United States and making a false statement to law enforcement authorities.
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Controversial Afro-Swedish Artist Speaks, "It's a Disturbing Picture But It's Also a Disturbing Subject"
In the last few days, Afro-Swedish artist Makode Linde has learned the power of the viral web. His controversial cake performance at Stockholm's Moderna Museet has ricocheted around the world and has garnered reactions of all types from support of his edgy gesture to raise awareness about female gen
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Turning the Seven Year Itch into a Retrospective
LOS ANGELES — Most artist retrospectives occur decades after an artist's career really takes off, once their name has been recognized in the annals of art world lore. But long time collaborators Chan and Mann — Audrey Chan and Elana Mann, respectively — have organized their own retrospective to reco
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NASA Captures the Motion of the Ocean
LOS ANGELES — These visualizations out of NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, dubbed Perpetual Ocean, show the currents of the oceans.
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"Art Cage!"
CHICAGO — Hat tip to Paul Klein in Chicago for alerting me via Facebook to artist Leon van den Eijkel, who has posted a gigantic number of photos of artists’ studios (predominantly historical) on his Facebook Wall.
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Swedish Minister Caught in "Racist" Food Art Performance [UPDATED: Museum Closed Due to Bomb Threat]
The Swedish culture minister has been widely criticized for participating in the Moderna Museet's "cake party" featuring Swedish artist Makode Aj Linde "dressed" as a female black African caricature.
Books
The Photographs of A Changed Landscape
Altered Landscape is a collection of over 900 photographs, spanning the last fifty years, by hundreds of contemporary photographers, all of whom have helped to redefine contemporary landscape photography.
Opinion
Getty Launches Pacific Standard Time Archive (Plus Advice for Artists Needing $$)
The Getty has launched a comprehensive Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Center archive online for art-lovers slash internet-junkies.
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The Drawing Center Returns, Doubled in Size!
After a year of renovations, The Drawing Center will open its doors at 35 Wooster Street on Thursday, September 13, 2012. The $9.6 million expansion gives the non-profit a hearty 9,150 square feet of space for three separate galleries, doubling its previous size.
Art
Is the New Aesthetic a Thing? Searching for Signs in Tupac and Google
LOS ANGELES — So much has been said about the New Aesthetic. But is it a thing?
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A View from the Easel, Part 12
CHICAGO — This week, artists from California, Cologne, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Minnesota open up their studios.