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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.
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This week in art news: Gagosian agreed to pay a $4.28-million tax settlement, an arrest warrant was issued for Russian dissident artist Oleg Vorotnikov, and John Singer Sargent’s "Gassed" travelled to New York for the first time.
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This week in art news: the Met files to charge out-of-state visitors, a new Banksy mural comments on Brexit, the Tiananmen Square Museum will reopen, and Pepe the Frog gets laid to rest.
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This week in art news: French cultural groups rallied against Marine Le Pen, Delhi’s Hall of Nations was demolished, and an art dealer left a Lucio Fontana painting in the back of a cab.
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This week in art news: Iraqi troops recaptured the ancient city of Hatra from ISIS, President Trump ordered a review of national monument designations, and a set of uncanny sleeping masks won the Rijksmuseum’s design contest.
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This week in art news: the first house Antoni Gaudí designed will reopen as a museum, the Getty Center was evacuated following a bomb threat, and Scotland’s national art collection was made available online.