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Art Historian Appointed to Trump's National Security Council
Victoria Coates, who has written about Nicolas Poussin and Syria's cultural heritage, is the National Security Council's new Senior Director for Strategic Assessments.
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Long Attributed to a Follower, a Pieter Brueghel the Younger Painting Is Authenticated
The artist's "Wedding Dance in the Open Air" spent many years undated and unsigned in storage at the Holburne Museum.
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Masked Men Destroy Exhibition at Kiev Art Space
On February 7, men wearing balaclavas stormed into the Visual Culture Research Center and destroyed an exhibition of work about the Maidan Revolution by artist Davyd Chychkan.
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Museum Terminates Anti-Trump Art Project over Safety Concerns
"HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US," a work by the trio LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner, was originally intended to run for Donald Trump's entire presidency at the Museum of the Moving Image.
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Over 500 Artists and Art Professionals Sign Letter Opposing Trump's Travel Ban
Trump's Executive Order could impact the lives of millions of people around the world and the art community has something to say about it.
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Oprah Winfrey Sold Klimt Painting for $150M
Winfrey bought "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II" (1912) at Christie's in 2006 for $87.9 million, which remains the auction record for a Klimt.
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NYC's Security Estimate for the Trumps Is More Than Double the NEA’s Budget
The current NEA budget is $148 million. A report estimates that one year's worth of security for the Trumps in NYC will cost $365 million. That's a 146.6% increase.
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Ikea and UN's Flat-Packed Refugee Shelter Wins Design Award
A refugee shelter has won the annual Beazley Design of the Year award.
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Help Preserve Vincent van Gogh's Humble Grave
A crowdfunding campaign is rallying support from Vincent van Gogh fans to preserve and protect the painter's grave in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
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Florida Art Thief Drives Stolen Car 1,000 Miles to Ask Obama for Pardon
Miami resident and confessed art thief Marcus Sanford Patmon was arrested on Wednesday after driving a stolen car to Arlington, Virginia, where "he was looking to be pardoned by the Obama administration before the Trump administration came in," according to an Arlington Police Department spokesperso
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Satellite Imagery Suggests ISIS Destroyed Two More Ancient Sites in Palmyra
The historic architecture of Palmyra continues to be destroyed by terror groups.
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Trump Team Plans to Eliminate National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
The budget in the works by the Trump team allegedly calls for the complete elimination of the NEA and NEH, plus the privatization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.