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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.
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This week in art news: a fire at Brazil's Museum of the Portuguese Language left one dead, the family of art dealer Daniel Wildenstein braced for a trial over $600M in tax fraud and money laundering, and archivists preserved artworks left in the streets of Paris after last month's terror attacks.
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This week in art news: New Orleans City Council voted to remove four confederate monuments, a Vasudeo S. Gaitonde painting set a new auction record for an Indian artwork, and Ed Ruscha donated a collection of his prints to the Tate.
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This week in art news: Banksy unveiled new works at a refugee camp in France, the Rijksmuseum began removing offensive and racially charged terms from its digitized collection, and the National Parks Service is looking to hire a full-time photographer for a salary of up to $99,296 a year.
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This week in art news: the Art Miami fair was flooded following torrential rain, forger Shaun Greenhalgh claimed to have created a work attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, and artist Stefan Glerum designed two 60-foot stained glass facades for a new housing project in Amsterdam.
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This week in art news: the ancient city of Petra was added to Google Street View, Scotland Yard opened its "Black Museum" of historic crime artifacts to the public, and the US government is sued over lost footage of JFK's assassination.
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This week in art news: Over 4,500 objects from the British Museum can now be viewed online, MoMA returns a Kirchner stolen from a Jewish collector by the Nazis, and Sotheby's prepares for a sale of Star Wars memorabilia.
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This week in art news: London's Science Museum decided not to renew its sponsorship deal with Shell, Russian artist and activist Pyotr Pavlensky was detained for setting fire to the entrance of Moscow's FSB headquarters, and Laurie Anderson and Sophie Calle got hitched.
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This week in art news: Sotheby's sold the world's largest cat painting for $826,000, the V&A Museum denied rejecting a collection of Margaret Thatcher's clothing, and a long-lost Disney cartoon was discovered at the BFI National Archive.
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This week in art news: monumental sculptures by Deborah Kass and Hank Willis Thomas were commissioned for sites near the Brooklyn Bridge, Goldsmiths endowed six scholarships in response to Europe's migrant crisis, and a new Tumblr collected the nastiest museum reviews on Yelp.
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This week in art news: a photo of the iceberg believed to have sunk the Titanic headed for auction, the mystery behind an intriguing new emoji was solved, and a blockbuster exhibition marking Hieronymus Bosch's 500th birthday was announced.
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This week in art news: Lawrence Weiner installed a series of works in an 18th-century British palace, a museum researcher defended his decision to kill a rare bird for scientific study, and Playboy decided to cease publishing images of nude women.