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French municipalities are mistreating the public works they commission under a national "1% for art" program, with one going so far as to recently repaint a sculpture without the artist's approval, Libération reported.
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The media blog Fishbowl New York is reporting that the lead paragraph of a July 25 New York Times article by Carol Vogel bears a striking similarity to the Wikipedia entry for its subject, the Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo.
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In case you needed a reminder that history is just fossilized life, look no further than Ukraine, where the past has been quite literally and rudely revived.
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New York may lean on its cultural institutions to encourage adoption of a planned municipal identity card for undocumented New Yorkers, the New York Times reported.
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In honor of Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, aka Rokudenashi-ko ("Good-for-nothing girl"), Jon Stewart premiered a new segment on The Daily Show last night: "We May Have Problems, But at Least We're Not Jailing Artists for 3D Printing Their Vaginas."
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A seven-day schedule inaugurated last year at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art brought a 7% increase in attendance at the former but no change at the latter, Crain's New York reported.
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The Metropolitan Opera is anticipating a significant labor lockout beginning August 1, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Archeologists in Peru have discovered the 1,500-year-old tomb of a Moche nobleman, which they say could shed further light on the pre-Inca civilization. Along with some things you might expect to find in an archeological dig was a curious pair of metal feline paws with sharp claws.
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Detroit's civilian and police-and-fire retirees overwhelmingly voted to approve cuts to their benefits in connection with the city's bankruptcy "grand bargain," the Detroit Free Press reported.
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The Museo del Prado in Spain is missing 885 artworks, down from 926 in 2008, El País reported.
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Art theft is the third-highest grossing criminal trade in the world, preceded only by drugs and weapons. This claim comes from a smart, extensive Newsweek article covering a three-day conference held at New York University Law School last month called "Art Crime and Cultural Heritage: Fakes, Forgeri
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A Chinese company is on the hunt for the world's largest rubber duck, last seen Wednesday floating on a river in southwest China, the Wall Street Journal reported.