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Public Outcry Halts Plan to Sell Artist William Edmondson’s Property to Developers
In order to balance the municipal budget, Nashville was considering selling the park that occupies the site where Edmondson lived and worked for decades.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the Glasgow School of Art suffered its second devastating fire in four years, the Guardian published artist Banu Cennetoğlu's list of 34,361 migrants who've died trying to enter Europe, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z released a music video shot almost entirely inside the Louvre.
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Glimpse the Orange County Museum of Art's Future and Futuristic Home
The shiny new building, designed by Morphosis Architects, will double the museum's exhibition space when it opens in 2021.
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A $32.8M Monet Leads Christie's London Sale and Napoleon's Hat Sells for $406,000
Plus the Fairfield University Art Museum gets a gift of more than 1,500 prints and the Cleveland Museum of Art acquired paintings by Dirck van Baburen and Emma Amos.
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Bay Area Protests Trump's Child Detention Policy with Billboard and Projection
A clandestine modification of a junk removal billboard and a nighttime projection of a political cartoon called out the president's family separation policy.
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Anish Kapoor Sues the NRA for Showing “Cloud Gate” in Recruitment Video
The artist claims that the gun advocacy group is committing copyright infringement by using an image of his sculpture in a video without his permission.
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Unfinished Bauhaus Typefaces Are Now at Your Fingertips
Adobe and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation teamed up to turn fragments of five unfinished typeface designs from the 1920s and '30s into full-fledged digital typefaces.
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Protest Performance Pressures Royal Shakespeare Company to End BP Sponsorship
Members of BP or not BP? and other collectives staged the "Fossil Free Mischief Festival" in front and in the lobby of the RSC's Stratford-upon-Avon theater.
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Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Launch New Art Grant, Giving 20 Artists $5,000 Each
Based on what they do with the money, four of the grantees will receive an additional $25,000.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a federal judge upheld his prior ruling in favor of the 5Pointz artists, a municipal report suggested that Beatrix Ruf had been wrongfully accused of conflicts of interest, and Erwin Wurm's "Hot Dog Bus" began serving free hot dogs in Brooklyn.
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Ornate 18th-Century Chinese Ceramics Make Waves at French Auctions
Plus Sean Scully donates over 20 works to a Dutch museum, and more results from Phillips, Christie's, and Sotheby's.
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Artists Support Themselves Through Freelance Work and Don't Find Galleries Especially Helpful, New Study Says
A study based on a survey of more than 1,000 practicing visual artists sheds light on the economics of making art.