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On Tuesday Dario Franceschini, Italy's Minister of Heritage, Culture, and Tourism, announced that the superior council for cultural assets and landscape has committed €80 million (~$87 million) to 12 major cultural projects.
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This week, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London announced that "the world's longest and tallest tunnel slide" will wrap around Anish Kapoor's "ArcelorMittal Orbit."
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A public sculpture in Durango, Colorado, that has divided and entertained residents of the small town since its installation last August was destroyed earlier this week and the vandal remains at large, according to the Durango Herald.
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Now that surveying and debating the fates of Confederate monuments around the US has become a national pastime, an artist has proposed a spottieottiedopaliscious solution for one of the most egregious and seemingly immovable.
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A Russian police investigator interrogates a detained political artist, with the end result being that the detective — his eyes opened to the state’s abuses of power — renounces his badge.
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According to Bloomberg, Citigroup is hoping to prevent losses by teaching the heirs of its wealthiest bank customers how to invest in art.
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Last month, Oklahoma's Supreme Court ruled that officials must remove a nearly six-foot-tall statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state's capitol, thwarting the Satanic Temple's plans to install its own statue of Baphomet to challenge government endorsement of religious symbols.
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A 55-foot-tall steel mesh sculpture of a naked, dancing woman that lights up with 3,000 LED bulbs dazzled Burning Man attendees in 2013, but residents of Bay Area city San Leandro — where it will reside permanently as of next summer — are split on its artistic merits.
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The Agence France-Muséums has confirmed reports, brought to light recently by the activist and artist group Gulf Labor, that a 28-year-old Pakistani worker died on June 8 at the construction site of the new Louvre Abu Dhabi museum.
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In response to the German government's insistence on imposing austerity measures on Greece, the artists representing Germany at this year's Venice Biennale have made a simple but powerful statement in support of the debt-ridden nation.
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When Leonardo da Vinci wasn't painting portraits of medieval Italy's nobility, he was figuring out how to keep their drinks cold.
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In March, the art world rallied to call for the protection of Nevada's Basin and Range area, a landscape of rich archaeological resources and the site of Michael Heizer's sprawling land art piece, "City" (1972–present).