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Maybe people are watching too much Law & Order, but the obsession with Vincent van Gogh and his ear, relationship with Paul Gauguin and tortured life are getting a little too much. Now, the latest theory … he was shot by teenage boys from Paris pretending to be American cowboys.
Opinion
This week … insights into Ai Weiwei's photos, photos of Japan's gangs, aesthetics of interactive space, William Gibson on cities, fake Guggenheims, superhero costumes, art thefts in Toronto, vintage street art & graffiti spots in New York.
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Former SpongeBob SquarePants lead artist Todd White's slick website includes a section where you can keep abreast of "what’s going on in Todd’s fast-moving world"; currently, it includes clips about his various media appearances, side projects and celebrity [sic] endorsements. What you won't find, h
Opinion
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, and the Financial Times observes the occasion with a fascinating feature article that tells the tale of the theft of what was (then as now) the world's most famous work of art
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LONDON — We are now six days into the unrest that started in the Greater London neighborhood of Tottenham, spread throughout London and then erupted across England. London has been relatively — but tenuously — calmer than it was on Monday night, when looting, arson and violence escalated and reached
Opinion
In a twist strangely echoed by the actor's recent art-world novel An Object of Beauty, Der Spiegel reports that Steve Martin is the victim of a German art forgery ring. Martin purchased what he thought was Heinrich Campendonk's “Landscape With Horses” (1915) for $850,000. Turns out, the painting was
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Think Beijing's historic Forbidden City is pretty well guarded? Well, you'd be right, the place is infested with security. Yet that didn't stop a thief from grabbing $1.5 million worth of artifacts from the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City.
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As LA's MOCA tries to give graffiti and street art their moment in the Southern California sun, in New York LA II, aka Angel Ortiz, and in Los Angeles, Revok, aka Jason Williams, are in jail for doing the art they love.
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Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities has released the final list of the historic objects that have gone missing from the Egyptian Museum since the January 25th revolution began … while in Spain, a museum finds a van Dyck in its basement.
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Opinion
In what may be the most original tactic by a city to deter street artists and graffiti writers from using public space as free advertising, Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is seeking a court injunction to bar street artist Cristian Gheorghiu from profiting from art bearing his telltale "t
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This week on Required Reading … Thornton Dial is getting ready for a major show in Indianapolis, Spy magazine is posted online by Google, thinking about animated GIFs as art, is the US military creating a fake online "army," visualizing art thefts, Linda Benglis profiled in the New York Times
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Graphic designer James Reynolds recreated the final meals of nine American prisoners executed between 1963 and 2006, then photographed each on an inmate-orange cafeteria tray.