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This week in art news: unknown sketches by Giacometti were discovered, two members of Pussy Riot were detained by Russian police, and previously withheld documents related to JFK's assassination were made public.
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This week in art news: Israeli authorities arrested five Palestinian art dealers suspected of selling looted antiquities to Hobby Lobby, six South Korean officials received prison sentences for blacklisting artists, and North Korea reportedly moved closer to completing Pyongyang's "Hotel of Doom."
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This week in art news: A group of artists and activists demanded the closure of the ICA Boston's Dana Schutz exhibition, an Andy Warhol painting owned by Alice Cooper was rediscovered in a storage locker, and arts writers and cultural figures accused The Village Voice’s owner of weakening its union.
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This week in art news: Artworks attributed to Modigliani were confiscated after being deemed fake, Spanish police recovered three stolen Francis Bacon paintings, and researchers claimed to detect particles indicative of torture on the Turin Shroud.
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This week in art news: A federal judge ordered $81 million be paid to victims of the Knoedler Gallery art forgery, an art investigator believes the work stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in Ireland, and an unpublished book by Maurice Sendak was discovered.
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This week in art news: a lawsuit between auctioneers revealed the true price of Gauguin's "Nafea Faa Ipoipo," Hobby Lobby was busted for smuggling ill-gotten Iraqi antiquities into the US, and the MFA Boston prepared to publicly restore a Ming Dynasty portrait of a demon queller.
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This week in art news: George Lucas's museum was greenlit by the Los Angeles City Council, a fire forced Philadelphia art space Vox Populi to close, and a man rammed his car into a Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas State Capitol.
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This week in art news: the 12th-century Grand Al-Nuri Mosque was destroyed in Mosul, Leonardo DiCaprio handed over Picasso and Basquiat paintings implicated in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad fund scandal, and an anonymous artist painted bathing suits on Antony Gormley's beach figures.
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This week in art news: the artist Khadija Saye went missing in the Grenfell Tower fire in London, two teens were rescued after spending three days in the Paris catacombs, and a previously unknown Jackson Pollock was found in an Arizona attic.
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This week in art news: two men were charged with involuntary manslaughter for the Ghost Ship warehouse fire, Dakota Nation members suspended plans to burn Sam Durant's "Scaffold," and the Rijksmuseum's 10-millionth visitor spent the night under Rembrandt's "The Night Watch."
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This week in art news: Sam Durant and members of the Dakota Nation agreed to ceremonially burn his Walker Art Center sculpture, activists demanded the removal of a Confederate monument in St. Louis, and the diocese of Málaga chastised street artist Space Invader.
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This week in art news: over 50,000 indigenous artifacts were preserved and set for return to an Alaskan village, President Trump’s budget called for eliminating NEA and NEH funding, and Jeremy Deller lambasted Theresa May’s campaign slogan.