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Russian Museum Makes Good on Its April Fools’ Joke and Hires a Cat
The newest employee of Serpukhov's Museum of History and Art in Russia will receive his salary in the form of fish and patties.
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Russia's Communist Party Wants to Copyright Iconic Red Star Symbol
Since the Russian Revolution, the red star has served as an international symbol of Communism, spangling the flags and insignia of myriad Communist states.
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Canada Pumps $1.4 Billion into Arts and Culture Budget
The Canadian government has pledged to invest nearly CAD 1.9 billion (~USD 1.4 billion) in the nation's arts and culture over the next five years to promote Canadian creativity both at home and abroad.
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Pritzker Prize–Winning Architect Makes Low-Cost Housing Plans Open Source and Free
Alejandro Aravena, the recipient of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, has released a collection of his low-cost housing plans online as an open-source resource — an attempt to help tackle the growing global housing shortage.
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Watch a 1958 Oscar-Winning Short About Dutch Glassblowers
In 1958, renowned Dutch filmmaker Bert Haanstra visited the Royal Leerdam glass factory in the Netherlands, where glassblowers created handmade crystal wares.
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Swedish Supreme Court Rules Against Wikimedia for Database of Public Art Photos
The Supreme Court of Sweden ruled yesterday that Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden) violated the country's copyright laws by gathering and posting photographs of public artworks on a website, the Local Sweden reported.
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Louisiana Republicans Target State Spending on Public Art
Louisiana, like many states and municipalities in the US, has had a "Percent for Art" law on the books for years.
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1,300 Intimate Images of Midcentury Modernist Structures Go Online
The University of Southern California Libraries have digitized roughly 1,300 rare photographs of midcentury modernism in the American West, as documented by two of its insiders.
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Olafur Eliasson Recruits Refugees to Assemble Symbolic Green Lights
In response to Austria giving migrants a red light, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson decided to create a “Green light,” a crystalline polyhedral LED light made from recycled materials.
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Proposals to Dig Up Central Park and Erect Drone Tower Win Architecture Competition
According to the winners of eVolo’s 2016 Skyscraper Competition, the New York City of the future could include a massive drone-docking tower and a torn-up Central Park replaced with lakes and hills atop a submerged, mirrored horizontal apartment/office complex.
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Columbia Students Object to Installation of Henry Moore “Monstrosity"
In what is apparently not an April Fools joke, a group of Columbia University students is protesting the installation of a Henry Moore sculpture on campus.
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Starchitect Zaha Hadid Dead at 65
Zaha Hadid, the celebrated Iraqi-British architect, has died of a heart attack at a Miami hospital, the BBC first reported.