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Anti-BP Protesters Sip Oily Champagne in Satirical Performance at the British Museum
Performers dressed as BP employees sipped oil-contaminated champagne, and protesters displayed facts about BP's exploitation of Iraqi resources.
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Who is Franck Riester, France’s New Culture Minister?
The rightwing politician launches his mandate with a focus on popular culture and public broadcast corporations, but French culture leaders and diplomats worry his appointment was an empty political move by Macron.
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Why the Victoria & Albert Museum Is Expanding to East London and Beyond
The financial logic behind the British institution's massive expansion project from east London to Scotland is certainly ambitious, but is it sound?
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A Parade of Feminist Art Centered On Voting
Artist Michele Pred uses art and community to encourage voting, bringing a feminist art parade to New York City this weekend.
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After $31 Million Sale of 3,000-Year-Old Assyrian Relief, Experts and Artists Denounce Christie’s
Critics call the recent sale, which shattered previous world records for Assyrian art sales, a callous example of the art market profiting from suffering in the Middle East. Experts speculate that ISIS's destruction of cultural heritage sites may have boosted the value of the work.
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Publishers Say They Were Harassed by Airport TSA Returning from a New York Art Book Fair
David King and Jaime Raybin say they were berated by TSA at LaGuardia Airport about copies of Skull Microwave, a controversial book by political artist Marlos E'vans.
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Week in Review: Syrian National Museum Reopens and La Sagrada Familia Fined $141M
An artist vandalized Francisco Franco’s tomb, Venice museums reopen after unprecedented flooding, and more.
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The Met Acquires Work by Serena Perrone, and Big Andy Warhol Print Sale at Christie’s
Plus, Christie's sells a ninth century Kufic Qur'an folio, and the Art Gallery of Ontario acquires work by Ken Nicols and Sonny Asu.
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Republican NY State Senator Accuses All-Women Satirical Collective in Soros Conspiracy Theory
Republicans in New York's Westchester County have alleged that the Missile Dick Chicks, an all-women theater group formed in 2002, are agents in a George Soros conspiracy plot to undermine the county's state Senate election.
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Art Movements
Hito Steyerl won the 2019 Käthe Kollwitz Prize, Thomas Campbell will lead the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Flux Factory has announced a fellowship for disabled artists, and more.
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Queer Artist Claims Bal Harbour Officials Censored His Photography
Pacifico Silano has accused the mayor and staff of a South Florida beach town of censoring his queer-themed exhibition and canceled his show in protest.
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An Artist Defends His Appropriation of a Fellow Artist’s Work Without Permission
A story of an artist appropriating, without consent, the work of other artists and what happened next.