In Brief

In Brief

In Greece, a Red-Winged Sculpture Is Exorcised and Destroyed

Religious conservatives condemned the red figure as satanic and yanked it from its pedestal, while a priest attempted to exorcise it.

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Hobby Lobby Turns Over 245 More Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq

Last year, the craft store chain agreed to hand over 5,548 antiquities that it had improperly imported.

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Whitney Museum Launches Emoji Designed by Laura Owens

The new pack of 50 stickers is based on a series of ceramic sculptures Owens made based on the beloved facial icons.

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Christie's Employee and Former CIA Officer Is Accused of Betraying Informants in China [UPDATED]

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, who was arrested as he arrived at New York's JFK airport on January 15, had been working as the head of security at Christie's Hong Kong auction house.

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Why Google’s Art Selfie App Doesn’t Work in Texas and Illinois

Both states have strict user privacy laws governing the use of biometric identifiers like scans of facial geometry.

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Governor Tosses Rule Radically Limiting Books in New York State Prisons

The new directive would not only have drastically restricted the number of books available to inmates, but also prohibited them from receiving warm clothes like hoodies and any fresh produce.

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Two Newly Discovered van Gogh Drawings Go on Display

Two new drawings from 1886 have been authenticated by the Van Gogh Museum as original works by the Post-Impressionist Master.

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Google App Matching Selfies with Historical Portraits Has Mixed Results But Is 100% Viral

A new feature of the Google Arts & Culture app promises to match users' selfies with similar faces in artworks, though the algorithm's questionable pairings are often just as interesting as its uncanny matches.

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Scientists Claim They Discovered World's Earliest Representation of a Supernova

Indian scientists discovered a 5,000-year-old stone carvings they claim depicts an ancient supernova.

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Utah Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Postcards of Nude Paintings in Art Class

Apparently some parents think paintings by Ingres, Modigliani, and Boucher are "pornography."

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Milo Yiannopoulos's Inane Thoughts on Art Slashed in Heavily Edited Book Draft

A first draft of the far-right pundit's unpublished manuscript recently emerged in legal documents, and his editor's dismissive comments are delightful.

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Nightmare Date Ends with Badly Damaged Warhols

What better way to say, “I’m into you,” than by drunkenly tearing paintings off the wall and throwing two expensive abstract sculptures across a room?