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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.
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This week in art news: anti-immigration protesters demonstrated at the unveiling of Manaf Halbouni's monument to the people of Aleppo, Sotheby's sued a dealer and a collector over an allegedly forged Frans Hals, and the Louvre reopened 24 hours after a man attacked a French soldier with a machete ne
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This week in art news: cultural organizations spoke out against President Trump's travel ban, art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad opposed the nomination of Betsy DeVos as US Secretary of Education, and the Library of Congress digitized 20,000 items from the papers of Sigmund Freud.
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This week in art news: South Korea’s culture minister was arrested for allegedly drafting an artists' blacklist, the Museum of Modern Art discarded a Pat Lasch sculpture, and the National Museum of American History pulled a book about President Trump from its gift shop after it was found to contain
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This week in art news: galleries and nonprofits participate in the #J20 Art Strike, the president-elect’s transition team reportedly plan to abolish the NEA and the NEH, and a Kickstarter for inauguration day posters raised over $1.3 million.
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This week in art news: dealer and collector Guy Wildenstein was cleared of charges that he'd concealed artworks to avoid taxes, financial disclosures revealed Steven Mnuchin's multimillion-dollar stake in a Willem de Kooning painting, and the artist behind the "Hollyweed" prank turned himself in.
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This week in art news: Facebook blocked a photo of a statue of Neptune for being "sexually explicit," the Louvre's attendance dropped following terrorist attacks in Paris, and a long-lost self-portrait by a female painter of the Dutch Golden Age was found.
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This week in art news: Yoshitomo Nara was sued by a cosmetics company he claims copied his work, a Henry Moore sculpture was installed at Columbia University despite students deeming it a "monstrosity," and India began construction on the world's tallest statue.