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Artist's Billboard Declaring “There Are Black People in the Future” Taken Down by Landlord
The billboard in Pittsburgh was initially removed due to "objections to the content," but a recent wave of support suggests the sign could go back up.
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Art Dealer and Collector Killed in Blaze at Trump Tower
Todd Brassner, who had been a close friend of Andy Warhol, had his portrait painted by the Pop artist in 1975.
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A Playable Archive of 74 Retro Games, Including Frogger, Tamagotchi, and Donkey Kong
The Internet Archive has uploaded emulations of classic games to Handheld History, a free digital library, allowing for old-school experiences on modern computers.
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Sonel Breslav, Founder of BABZ Fair, Will Direct Printed Matter's Fairs and Editions
Breslav founded Blonde Art Books and has long been a force in New York's art books scene.
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Cleaners Throw Away Frowning Happy Meal Sculpture at Hong Kong Art Fair
Carol May's sculpture "Unhappy Meal" was on view at Hong Kong's Harbour Art Fair when cleaners threw it out, destroying it.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the V&A offered Ethiopia a long-term loan of treasures looted by British troops, Martin Kemp accused London's National Gallery of altering the attribution of a work for its 2011 Leonardo exhibition, and Christo's latest public art project began to take shape in central London.
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Coalition of Anti-Gentrification Groups Pressures Brooklyn Museum to “Decolonize” [UPDATED]
Anti-gentrification activists are calling on the museum to create a "Decolonization Commission" after a controversial curatorial hire.
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Court OKs Berkshire Museum Plan to Sell Art by Calder, Bierstadt, Picabia, and Others
Today's ruling in the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County clears the way for Sotheby's to auction off over three dozen works from the museum's collection.
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DC's African American History and Culture Museum Is Finally Allowing Walk-In Visitors
This month, the museum is piloting a "Walk-Up Wednesdays" program for first-come, first-served entry once a week.
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LA's Art Community and Activists React to the Closing of 356 Mission
The Boyle Heights nonprofit space founded five years ago by Laura Owens and Wendy Yao had long been the focus of anti-gentrification protests.
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Forgotten Old Master Painting Rediscovered in Iowa Storeroom
An unusual detail helped scholars attribute the painting to Otto van Veen: "The rosy cheeks on the model ... And not the cheeks on the face.”
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India Is Building the World's Tallest Statue
Envisioned to rise nearly 600-feet-tall, the Unity Statue will be twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.