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This week in art news: an anonymous artist blindfolded 100 public statues in Rio de Janeiro, Venice was declared Europe's most endangered heritage site, and the National Academy revealed plans to sell its buildings on Fifth Avenue.
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This week in art news: Elton John loaned works from his photography collection to Tate Modern, a museum of LGBTQ history and culture sustained gunfire damage, and French police seized a painting attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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This week in art news: the international criminal court began its first war crimes trial for the destruction of cultural monuments, scientists claimed to have identified Banksy using geographic profiling, and Iggy Pop posed as a nude life model for New York Academy of Art students.
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This week in art news: courtroom sketches from the Knoedler forgery trial went on public display, artists came out in support of Apple's decision not to give the FBI access to users' encrypted data, and a painter in France found a drawing in a bottle that was thrown into New York Harbor two and a ha
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This week in art news: Ai Weiwei's new refugee-themed artworks and actions drew sharp criticism, Spain ruled that an alleged accomplice in the Knoedler Gallery affair can be extradited to the US, and the Metropolitan Museum defended its widely ridiculed new logo.
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This week in art news: Facebook censored Evelyne Axell's 1964 Pop art painting "Ice Cream," a badger uncovered a trove of Bronze Age artifacts near Stonehenge, and Ann Freedman and the Knoedler Gallery settled a lawsuit brought by collectors who bought a fake Mark Rothko painting from the gallery.
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This week in art news: Utah moved closer to designating "Spiral Jetty" its official state artwork, the Queens Museum announced it will give legendary punk group the Ramones a retrospective, and a mouse died at the Museum of English Rural Life after crawling into a historic mousetrap.
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This week in art news: Jeremy Deller and Fraser Muggeridge raised a smiley face flag over London, the Knoedler forgery trial began with testimony from art world heavy-hitters, and the dissident Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky was sent to a psychiatric hospital.
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This week in art news: the Metropolitan Museum revealed details of its modern and contemporary art wing expansion, hundreds of Art Students League members filed a lawsuit over the $31.8-million sale of the school's air rights, and Josh Kline's sculpture "Po-Po" graced the cover of Fatima Al Qadiri's
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This week in art news: revisiting William Boyd and David Bowie's art world hoax, Stephen Colbert interviews the Guerrilla Girls, and Larry Gagosian sues the royal family of Qatar over a Picasso sculpture.
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This week in art news: Joel Goodman's photograph of British New Year's revelers went viral, a representative of Beyoncé denied that the singer is planning to star in a biopic on Saartjie Baartman, and 30 museums in Southern California will offer free admission on January 30.
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This week in art news: Egyptian authorities raided a nonprofit gallery in Cairo, Ai Weiwei visited migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos, and preservationists criticized the Smithsonian for placing bright new signs on the façade of one of its historical buildings.