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US Educators Test New National Art Standards
Next month, educators at close to 100 schools across the country will pilot new national art standards for education.
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The ART Act Is Dead, but Congressman Will Reintroduce It
The proposed US Congressional bill to give visual artists royalties on the resale of their work at auction is dead, but a House Representative plans to revive it.
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'The Simpsons' Join in Tribute to 'Charlie Hebdo'
Last night The Simpsons joined in with a two-second tribute that cast the family's eternal baby, Maggie, in the a hybrid role that combined Marianne, the national symbol of the French Republic, and Cosette from Les Misérables.
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Artists Paint the Town of Johannesburg Pink
When is unauthorized street art actually art, and when is it vandalism? It's a question the city of Johannesburg has wrestled with since last summer.
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Internet Archive Offers Trip Down Memory Lane (and the Oregon Trail) with 2,400 MS-DOS Games
If you were in elementary school in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you might remember spending hours of free time playing MS-DOS computer games. Who could forget the thrill of shooting a bear on the Oregon Trail, or chasing down that crook Carmen Sandiego?
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City Initiative Will Measure Staff and Leadership Diversity at New York Museums
Diversity, nebulous though it is, has long been something museums have tried to maximize among their visitors, but a new initiative being launched by New York's Department of Cultural Affairs aims to measure the diversity of staff and board members at the city's cultural institutions.
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Macedonian Protesters Say No to Architectural Kitsch
Two nights before New Year's Eve, more than a thousand Macedonians gathered in the snow to hold hands and form a ring around a large shopping mall in the capital city of Skopje.
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French Sculptures in the US Stand Up to Be Counted
On the hunt for one of Emmanuel Fremiet's cat bronzes? Want to play a game on Man Ray's chess set? Curious to know which state has the most Louise Bourgeois sculptures? All these pressing queries and more will be answered thanks to the new French Sculpture Census.
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How Many DC Bureaucrats Does It Take to Fix a Calder Mobile?
It may sound like the beginning of a joke, but members of the US Senate are pondering the mobility of an Alexander Calder mobile.
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Timber! Towering Wooden Sculpture Breaks in "European Cultural Capital"
Mons, a city in Belgium that's been designated the "European Capital of Culture" for 2015, saw its year in the spotlight get off to a rocky start after one of its marquee commissions collapsed.
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Deaccessioning Crisis Has UK Museums Group Contemplating Stricter Guidelines
The Museums Association, the largest professional membership organization for UK museums and their workers, is planning to revise its ethical guidelines in the hopes of dissuading institutions around the country from selling off works in their collections, the Independent reported.
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Jeff Koons Accused of Plagiarism in Paris, Again
A second sculpture by Jeff Koons is conspicuously absent from his retrospective at the Centre Pompidou after a photographer's widow complained to the art star and the museum's administration that "Naked" (1988) constituted copyright infringement.