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If you've ever wanted to sit at a table and read dates out loud for an hour — or rather, if you've ever wanted to be part of an On Kawara artwork — you're about to get your chance.
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New research suggests that Leonardo da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks" at the National Gallery — one of the British museum's most prized possessions — might not be the work of the master after all, the Guardian reported.
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In its first-ever "State of the Commons" report, Creative Commons — the nonprofit that aims to facilitate the free sharing and licensing of creative work — revealed that there are at least 882 million Creative Commons–licensed works currently available online, and that sometime next year that figure
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Delbert Rodriguez Gutierrez, a 21-year-old Miami graffiti artist known for his "DEMZ" tag, is in critical condition after City of Miami Police detective Michael Cadavid hit him with his unmarked car in the early morning hours on December 5.
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An auction to benefit refugees displaced by the Islamic State in northern Syria and Iraq was launched today on the online platform Paddle 8.
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In an uncomfortable echo of the reeducation campaigns of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced that artists, filmmakers, and TV staff will be sent to live and work in rural villages so that they will "form a correct view of art and create more masterpieces,” Ch
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A major source of raw materials for board room presentations and net art projects is about to go dry: Microsoft announced on Monday that it is discontinuing Clip Art.
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Britain's former secretary of education Michael Gove, who earned the ire of the art community when he proposed cutting the arts from core curricula at UK schools in 2012, will face a new opponent next time he runs for election in his local district: The artist Patrick Brill, better known as Bob and
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Yahoo's recent move to sell prints of photos users have put on Flickr has sparked a backlash from many photographers who object to the company's policy of taking all the profits from sales of images uploaded under the Creative Commons "commercial attribution" license.
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The Canadian government has denied the Afghan artist Hanifa Alizada a visa to travel to the country, where she was due to speak and show her work at "The Shrinking World of Photography" symposium next month.
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Did Valdimir Putin get an assist from Pablo Picasso toward his goal of bringing the 2018 World Cup competition to Russia? According to a British report that has just been made public, former soccer star, UEFA president, and FIFA executive member Michel Platini received a Picasso painting as a bribe
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Just as the mouse may be as an "unexpected" artistic muse, so a Hollywood kids movie about a talking mouse is an unexpected place to find a missing painting from the Hungarian modernist avant-garde.