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Not Just Bushwick: New Study Charts Where NYC Artists Live
While the artist population in Manhattan is in decline, the number of artists in the Bronx nearly doubled since 2000.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music Digitizes 70,000 Objects Spanning 150 Years of Performance
The Brooklyn Academy of Music's new digital archive features playbills, photographs, videos, audio, and ephemera from a century and a half of theatrical history.
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Metropolitan Museum Sets New Attendance Record with 7 Million Visitors
Amid a turbulent year, the institution announced yesterday that it set a new attendance record that surpasses last year's then-record high of 6.7 million.
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Eritrean Modernism, a Brazilian Slave Port, and More Join UNESCO World Heritage Site List
This year's session of the World Heritage Committee has resulted in 21 new sites, from the controversial Old City of Hebron in the West Bank, to a men-only island in Japan.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a lawsuit between auctioneers revealed the true price of Gauguin's "Nafea Faa Ipoipo," Hobby Lobby was busted for smuggling ill-gotten Iraqi antiquities into the US, and the MFA Boston prepared to publicly restore a Ming Dynasty portrait of a demon queller.
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Did Amelia Earhart Survive the Crash? Some Say So, Based on a Blurry Photo [UPDATED]
The photo, which is circulating in advance of a new History Channel program, was discovered by retired federal agent Les Kinney while digging through the National Archives.
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Frida Kahlo or Tacos al Pastor? Mexico City Is Taking Suggestions for Municipal Emoji
The government has asked how residents would express their city in symbols, with an open competition for the design of an emoji package representing this megalopolis.
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Study Finds Museum Salaries Are Rising Across the Board, Despite Huge Disparities
While salaries rose by 3% in 2016, museum directors are making about nine times what security guards do, according to the Association of Art Museum Directors.
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New Open-Source Platform Maps the Provenances of Artworks
Mapping Paintings is an attempt to compile and visualize provenance data for individual artworks, from owners to past locations to details of sales.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: George Lucas's museum was greenlit by the Los Angeles City Council, a fire forced Philadelphia art space Vox Populi to close, and a man rammed his car into a Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas State Capitol.
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Adobe Releases Digital Brushes Modeled on Edvard Munch’s
Oslo's Munch Museum and an "award winning Photoshop brush maker" teamed up to create a set of digital brushes based on seven real ones that Munch used.
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Jimmie Durham Retrospective Reignites Debate Over His Claim of Native Ancestry
Though he has both claimed to have and denied having Cherokee heritage, institutions often present Durham as a Native American artist.