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How an Oversight in Public Arts Policy Caused a Kerfuffle in Palo Alto
The case emphasizes the importance of clear formal agreements between public art commissions and artists.
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Displaying Kaepernick's Jersey, MoMA Threads Together Art, Fashion, and Politics
Of the iconic fashion pieces in MoMA's exhibition Items: is Fashion Modern? no item may be more important or salient to our contemporary politics than Colin Kaepernick’s jersey.
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Last Leonardo Painting in Private Hands Is Going to Auction for $100M+
Here's your chance to get a work by the Italian Renaissance master in what may be one of the ultimate art trophies for the super wealthy.
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Anti-Columbus Day Tour Attended by Hundreds at the American Museum of Natural History
Hundreds of people came out to attend a decolonization tour of one of New York's most popular museums.
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Philadelphia's Monument Lab Asks, "What's Right for Public Space?"
In Philadelphia, artists including Mel Chin, Hank Willis Thomas, Karyn Olivier, and Michelle Angela Ortiz create new possibilities for monuments in public spaces.
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Jim Henson's Muppet Prototypes and Sketches Prove He Was a Genius, No Strings Attached
At the Museum of the Moving Image, The Jim Henson Exhibition spans Henson's career and highlights the conceptual and technical innovations of the groundbreaking puppeteer and his creative collaborators.
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A New Instant Camera Prints Actual GIFs
The DIY camera Instagif NextStep snaps three-second GIFs and pops them out in an instant.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Theresa May sported a Frida Kahlo bracelet during her disastrous Conservative party conference speech, the highest level of the Colosseum was made accessible to tourists, and performance artist Deborah de Robertis was charged with exhibitionism after exposing herself in front
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Artist Vandalizes Virtual Koons Sculpture, Questioning Silicon Valley's Fake Public Space
Is it truly public space if there's no opportunity to really disrupt things? Artist Sebastian Errazuriz doesn't seem to think so.
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Giant Sculpture of Nude Woman Coming to DC's National Mall
The artist who created the 45-foot-tall sculpture of a nude woman says he hopes it will call attention to the need for ending violence against women.
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Too Lewd for the Louvre, Boinking Building Sculpture Nixed in Paris
"Domestikator," a 40-foot-tall inhabitable sculpture that was to be part of the FIAC fair's public art program, is shaped like two figures making whoopee.
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Experts Believe Leonardo Sketched the Mona Lisa Nude
Analysis of a drawing long attributed to Leonardo's studio suggests the artist worked on at least part of it, and that it may have been a preparatory sketch for the Mona Lisa.