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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.
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This week in art news: the co-founders of a Tehran gallery were charged with attempting to overthrow the Iranian government, demonstrators protested the opening of Carl Andre’s retrospective at LA MOCA, and a man stepped on a blue pigment piece by Yves Klein during a press conference in Nice.
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This week in art news: pioneering Pop artist James Rosenquist died, 5Pointz artists were cleared to sue the site’s developer, and a crucifix attributed to Michelangelo was reinstalled at a church in Florence.
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This week in art news: artists were injured in clashes with Chinese security officials during the demolition of a studio complex in Beijing, a deputy director of the State Hermitage Museum was put under house arrest on suspicion of fraud, and Ai Weiwei revealed plans to install more than 100 fence s
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This week in art news: artists and protesters demanded the removal of a Dana Schutz painting from the Whitney Biennial, an artist received death threats for her anti-Trump billboard, and a man attacked a Thomas Gainsborough painting at the National Gallery in London.
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This week in art news: President Trump proposed to eliminate the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, a London gallery was evicted over its far-right agenda, and artist Zwelethu Mthethwa was convicted of murder.
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This week in art news: archaeologists discovered a giant statue of Ozymandias in Cairo, Bali refused to cover up nude statues of Hindu deities during a visit by the king of Saudi Arabia, and the British Museum displayed a watercolor it discovered over ten years ago.
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This week in art news: an Argentine curator and US resident was denied reentry into the US, anti-fascists and white nationalists clashed at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and a Klimt painting led the way in a record auction at Sotheby's.
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This week in art news: protesters called on the Museum of Modern Art to drop a Trump adviser from its board, Italy’s art crime squad recovered a Guercino painting stolen in 2014, and two more works from the Cornelius Gurlitt trove were returned to the heirs of their Jewish owners.
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This week in art news: Paris will build a wall of bullet-proof glass around the Eiffel Tower, Israel's culture minister shut down a nonprofit gallery for hosting an anti-occupation group, and the UK placed an export bar on a Parmigianino recently purchased by the Getty.