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Columbia University MFAs Share Stories of Dysfunctional Studios and Overworked Faculty
Current students and recent graduates of the revered program reflect on a series of internal crises that have come to light.
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This week in art news: the Frieze Art Fair agreed to compensate galleries for the extreme temperatures in its New York tent, the School of Visual Arts removed two instructors accused of inappropriate behavior, and Save Venice Inc. announced a major restoration of Titian's "Assumption of the Virgin."
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New Database Highlights Overlooked European Avant-Garde Artists
Forgotten Heritage offers visitors around 800 records to explore, from documentation of artworks to texts.
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After Frida Kahlo Barbie Debacle, Licensing Company Sues Artist's Relative
The Frida Kahlo Corporation is suing the artist's great niece, claiming she is falsely presenting herself as someone who has the power to grant licensing permits for Kahlo's name and image.
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Four Groups Are Recipients of New Grants to Support Black Arts Organizations
The Black Art Futures Fund, which launched earlier this year and received more than 30 applications for its first round of grants, has given $15,000 to its four inaugural grantees.
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School of Visual Arts Removes Two Professors Accused of Improper Behavior
The instructors, both from the film and animation department, were the subjects of recent complaints filed by students.
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An Artist Is Helping Incubate More Resilient and Fertile Chickens for Ethiopia
Koen Vanmechelen has spent the last 20 years developing a “Cosmopolitan Chicken,” and since 2016 has been involved in a project to breed more versatile poultry at a facility in Addis Ababa.
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Artists Sue City of Memphis for Painting Over Sanctioned Murals
Twelve artists who created murals at the behest of nonprofit Paint Memphis, Inc. are suing the city for buffing five of the murals and threatening to erase three more.
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Soon You May Be Able to Text with 2,000 Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Collaborations among Egyptologists and digital linguistics promise global visualizations of what was written on inscriptions, papyri, wall paintings, and other sources of Hieroglyphs. It may also allow for more popular knowledge of Egyptian Hieroglyphs and encourage its assimilation into popular lan
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More Galleries Are Leaving the Contested Los Angeles Neighborhood of Boyle Heights
Chimento Contemporary and MaRS are joining the list of galleries relocating from Boyle Heights, a neighborhood long marked by gentrification tensions.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened to the public, all but three of Columbia University's visual arts MFA students demanded tuition refunds, and a Bernini sculpture lost a finger.
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A Typeface Transforms the Alphabet in the Style of Famous Artworks
In this artful alphabet by the Madrid-based design studio CESS, "V" is for van Gogh and "F" is for Frida.