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An all-day strike yesterday saw operations at a number of UK museums stopped or decreased as nearly 250,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union walked off the job over caps on pay and pensions, the Guardian reported.
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A Turkish biennial close to the Syrian border has been postponed due to the Islamic State's ongoing assault on the nearby town of Kobani, The Art Newspaper (TAN) reported.
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Last month, archeologists uncovered two oversize marble caryatids and a colorful marble panel in a substantial tomb complex in Amphipolis, Greece. Now, after excavating behind the sealing wall that the caryatids were guarding, they've found a chamber with a large and largely intact mosaic floor.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies, the foundation established by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, announced yesterday an initiative that will see at least three cities receive up to one million dollars for public art programs.
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The New York Studio School's Whitney Studio in Greenwich Village has been designated a "National Treasure" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Last weekend, a flash mob of singers interrupted a concert of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra to stage a "Requiem for Mike Brown," the unarmed teenager who was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, this past August.
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A ruling by the United States Tax Court last week held that an artist employed as a professor could still claim tax deductions on her independent output, the New York Times reported.
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A politically engaged Ukrainian curator was attacked and beaten in an incident in Kiev late last month, The Art Newspaper reported.
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As labor conditions on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island fall under ever-increasing scrutiny, Frank Gehry, the architect behind the Guggenheim's outpost there, has issued a statement regarding his firm's "substantial and on-going dialogue" on the issue.
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will be adding a second location in New York, the Art Newspaper reported. A job listing on the Guggenheim's website containing all the information mentioned in the report seems to be the source.
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The European Union is considering a ban on the cadmium pigment in artists' paints.
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Next year, to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh's death, a consortium called the Van Gogh Europe Foundation will honor the artist with events across three countries: exhibitions, tours, lectures, films, and ... a musical.