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In Quest for Selfie, Tourist Scales and Smashes 126-Year-Old Statue
Another day, another unnecessary, accidental damage of art.
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‘Antiques Roadshow’ Mistakenly Values High School Art Project at $50,000
Recently on an episode of Antiques Roadshow, an art appraisal went very wrong.
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Tauba Auerbach Sculpts a Pop-Up Book for Grownups
In her sculptures and installations, California-born artist Tauba Auerbach often plays with the flux state between two and three dimensions. Her latest project continues in this vein: It's an oversized pop-up book.
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White Woman Sues Getty Foundation Over Multicultural Internship Program
Rejection sure is tough, especially when you're a white applicant vying for a spot in a museum internship program that's explicitly open only to minority groups.
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Iranian Cartoonist Atena Farghadani Released from Prison
Today, Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani was released from jail after spending over a year in Tehran's Evin Prison for her satirical drawing of Iran's policymakers as animals.
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Documents Hint at BP's Undue Influence on UK Museums It Sponsors
A number of major museums in the UK, including the British Museum and National Portrait Gallery, may undergo investigation over claims that oil giant BP had sway over their operations.
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A Self-Driving Greenhouse Ball Could Be the Future of Urban Gardens
Imagine uprooting your community garden and replanting it inside a motorized geodesic sphere, then letting this sphere roam the city streets of its own volition, using sensors to seek out its plants' preferred environmental conditions.
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British Royals Hastily Remove Racist Painting Label Prior to Obama Visit
Last Friday, the British royal family hosted the Obamas for dinner in Kensington Palace — and the visit could have been an incredibly awkward one.
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Prince's Home and Studio 2 B Come a Museum
In the past week, thousands of mourning fans have flocked to Paisley Park, the 65,000-square-foot Minnesota music factory where rock god Prince lived and died.
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Art Teacher Claims She Was Fired for Saying "Vagina" During Georgia O'Keeffe Lesson
A substitute teacher in West Michigan was allegedly fired last week for using the word "vagina" while introducing a class of eighth graders to the very vaginal paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe.
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J.M.W. Turner to Light Up the British £20 Note
J.M.W. Turner, the great English landscape painter who obsessed over light, will be featured on the new £20 banknote in the UK.
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Plagued by Castrating Vandals, a Public Sculpture Gets a Detachable Penis
Heracles is famous for his sexual prowess, but one nude statue of him in a park in France will now largely go phallus-free.