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An Artist-Run Airline Promises Happiness As It Jets You to Art Fairs
"Happiness is ahead of you," promises Angelhaha founder Qinmin Liu.
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This week in art news: a portrait recently reattributed to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo went on view at the Frick, an audit attributed Documenta's budget deficit to its Athens expansion, and a monument to the first cat in space was successfully crowdfunded.
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The Library of Congress Acquires and Digitizes a Rare Mesoamerican Codex
The Library of Congress has acquired and digitized the 16th-century Codex Quetzalecatzin, a rare Mesoamerican record of early European contact.
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Calls to Take Down Columbus and J. Marion Sims Statues at Public Hearing on NYC Monuments
During a four-hour public hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday, Central Park's Sims statue was universally reviled, while monuments to Columbus, Roosevelt, and others provoked mixed commentary.
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Dorothea Rockburne Murals in Limbo as the Former AT&T Building Awaits Its Fate
While debate swirls over a redesign of Philip Johnson's postmodern skyscraper, it's unclear what will happen to Rockburne's two site-specific paintings in the building's lobby.
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Curator Called Before Senate Hearing as Brazil's Right-Wing Groups Target the Arts
The curator of an exhibition on queer art, which was subsequently shut down, is being investigated by the senate for harming children with art.
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US Decides Guantánamo Prisoners Do Not Own the Art They Create
Critics say the change in policy further dehumanizes prisoners, who have been at the center of international controversy since the Guantánamo facility was opened.
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This week in art news: "Salvator Mundi" became the most expensive work ever sold at auction, the final missing piece of Magritte's "The Enchanted Pose" was discovered, and Walmart removed posters from its wall art collection after the images were identified as photographs documenting the detention o
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Kickstarter Launches Drip, a Service for Subscribing to Artists’ Projects
Drip invites artists to create webpages that visitors can subscribe to, having exclusive access to certain projects, or whatever else the artist decides to make available to them.
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After 81 Years, Memphis College of Art Will Shutter Due to Debt and Falling Enrollment
While many remain optimistic that the school could remain open, it would take a miraculous $30 million endowment donation to make this possible.
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What Happened to the $2.2M Marina Abramović Raised to Build Her Institute?
This project joins thousands of other follies of contemporary art.
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Opponents of Berkshire Museum Sales Protest Sotheby's
After a judge halted the sale of works from the museum’s collection, nearly a dozen protesters gathered in front of Sotheby’s to demand the return of the deaccessioned pieces.