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Impasto Imposter Smears Paint Around Lower East Side Gallery
The gallery's director reportedly threw the culprit out after catching him or her many color-handed.
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This Artist Will Build You a Lego Model of Your House
Shari Austrian uses photographs and architectural plans to create Lego houses based on customers' homes.
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Laser Imaging Reveals 60,000 Maya Structures Under Jungle Canopy
Researchers have made major new discoveries in Central America that suggest Maya settlements were more complex and expansive than previously known.
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Boston and Philadelphia's Art Museums Gamble Loaning a Painting on the Super Bowl
The outcome of Museum Bowl 2018 will depend on whether the Philadelphia Eagles or the New England Patriots prevail on Sunday.
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French Art Dealers Join Chorus of Opposition Against Jeff Koons's Big Bouquet
The 80,000-pound sculpture is still being fabricated, but already an association representing 255 French art dealers wants it moved.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a trucker drove across the Nazca Lines, Lorde wore an excerpt from a Jenny Holzer piece to the Grammys, and the Manchester Art Gallery removed a Pre-Raphaelite painting in order to "prompt conversations" about museum display and interpretation.
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“We’re Fed Up”: Artists Break into Mexico City Museum, Demanding It Get with the Times
The group, called "Los Hemocionales," protested El Eco’s programming, claiming it hasn’t lived up to its promise as an experimental institution.
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Proposed 140 Broadway Plan Threatens Noguchi's "Red Cube" [UPDATED]
The Noguchi Foundation was not consulted on the proposal and says it undermines Isamu Noguchi's vision of the public space around his iconic sculpture.
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Queens Museum Director’s Departure Prompts Call for More Politically Engaged Art Institutions
An open letter signed by 38 curators, artists, and academics praises Laura Raicovich and calls on art institutions to advance "cultural and social as well as political public discourse."
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Tainted LOVE: Philadelphia’s Robert Indiana Sculpture Painted Incorrectly for Decades
For three decades, "LOVE" had been painted red, green, and blue, instead of red, green, and purple.
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Tehran Gallerist Couple Sentenced to 27 and 16 Years in Prison
Karan Vafadari and Afarin Nayssari were sentenced earlier this month, though what crimes they had been charged with remain unknown.
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Airline Turns Away Artist and Her Emotional Support Peacock
On Sunday, the photographer and performance artist Ventiko attempted to bring her peacock on a flight to Los Angeles. The airline said no.