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Artists Take Responsibility for Brooklyn Bridge Flag Swap

The New York Times is reporting that German artists Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke have taken credit for what they're calling an artistic act meant to celebrate "the beauty of public space.”

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Pro-Russian Separatists Kidnap Artist in Ukraine

Pro-Russian rebels have abducted an artist in eastern Ukraine, the International Business Times reported.

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Cai Guo-Qiang Turns Tortoises into Art, Raising Animal-Rights Concerns [UPDATED]

The new Shigeru Ban–designed Aspen Art Museum will open with a 24-hour event this Saturday, but not everyone in town is happy.

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Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Increasingly Reliant on Fee-Generating Loans

Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is increasingly turning to lending out marquee artworks in their collection for profit, according to the Boston Globe.

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Showing Your Kids Art a "Total Waste of Time," Artist Says

Jake Chapman said that bringing kids to view art is a "total waste of time," the Independent reported.

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NYC Housing Realities: 53,000 Artists Apply for 89 Affordable Apartments

Last May, developers for subsidized artist housing in East Harlem began accepting tenant applications for the building's 89 units. By the July 14 deadline, over 53,000 artists had responded, DNAinfo reported.

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A Glimpse of Edward and Jo Hopper in Their Studios

This wonderful two-minute video will take you inside Edward and Jo Hopper's New York City studio in 1965.

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Here Are the Bland Condos That Will Replace 5Pointz

NY YIMBY recently got a set of renderings of the structure that will take over 5Pointz’s burial ground at 22-44 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens.

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Brooklyn Museum Goes Free for Those Under 20

Starting September 3, the Brooklyn Museum will be free for visitors under 20.

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Marina Abramović Institute Seeks So Much Unpaid Work

Good news: the Marina Abramović Institute is hiring! Bad news: all four positions listed in this fresh New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) ad are unpaid — ahem, volunteer. They're probably great "opportunities," though, right?

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Met Envy Apparently Fueled National Gallery of Art's Interest in Corcoran

The chief of exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art told a philanthropist that absorbing the failing Corcoran would make "his collection at the National Gallery ... greater than the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”

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Zaha Hadid Qatar World Cup Stadium Laborers Paid a Pittance

A Guardian investigation has found that migrant workers building architect Zaha Hadid's World Cup stadium in Qatar are being paid at a level beneath what's mandated by World Cup regulations.