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Dispute Erupts Over Artist's “Monument for Strangers and Refugees” in Germany
The city fo Kassel wants to relocate Olu Oguibe's public sculpture, commissioned for last year's Documenta.
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7,600 Edvard Munch Drawings Now Available to Discover Online
The Munch Museum in Oslo digitized not only its own holdings of Munch's works on paper, but also those from other museums and private collections.
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This week in art news: the five male artists shortlisted for the BelgianArtPrize withdrew from the competition, hateful leaflets were strewn outside the Rothko Chapel, and the Royal Mail unveiled six new stamps to mark the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts.
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Acquires 34 Works by Outsider Artists and a Basquiat Sells for $45.3M at Phillips
Plus Christies and Sotheby's wrapped up their New York spring sales, museums and foundations snapped up works deaccessioned by the Berkshire Museum, and more.
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Artist-Run Satellite Art Show Relocating to Expansive New Miami Location
For its fourth edition, the artist-run fair is relocating to a 33,000-square foot lot near downtown Miami directly alongside the NADA fair's new location.
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New Online Exhibition Chronicles the Many Facets of Frida Kahlo’s Life and Work
Faces of Frida, a partnership between Google Arts & Culture and 33 partner museums, brings together some 800 artifacts from ultra-high resolution images of her work to personal objects and rarely-seen photos.
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Robert Indiana, Creator of Iconic LOVE Works, Dead at 89
The reclusive Pop and hard-edge artist died at his home in Maine this past Saturday.
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Fight to Preserve Net Neutrality Heads to the US House of Representatives
With less than a month before the FCC is due to repeal rules protecting the open internet, a measure to save it still needs to be approved by the House of Representatives and President Trump.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: 3,800 smuggled artifacts bought by Hobby Lobby were returned to Iraq, two women wearing LGBTQ rainbow pins were attacked at Beijing's 798 Art District, and the British Museum revealed plans to put a faux prehistoric cave painting by Banksy back on display.
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MoMA Acquires 324 Works on Paper and New Auction Records for Kazimir Malevich and Kerry James Marshall
The Museum of Modern Art acquired 324 works from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, and new auction records for Kazimir Malevich, Kerry James Marshall, and David Hockney were set at this week's spring sales at Christie's and Sotheby's.
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Corcoran Gallery Gives More Than 10,000 Artworks to DC Institutions
This week the Corcoran's board announced that over 99% of the works from the gallery's collection will stay in DC, with the vast majority going to the museum at American University.
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Protesters Warn of Luxury High Rises Threatening Brooklyn Botanic Garden [UPDATED]
At a rally on Mother's Day, anti-gentrification groups warned that planned high-rise residential towers will not only displace longtime local residents but pose a threat to the Garden's plant collection.