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A Call to Save a Floating Performance Space by Louis Kahn [UPDATED]
A 50-year-old floating performance space designed by architect Louis Kahn may be sent to a Louisiana shipyard for scrap at the end of this year's tour.
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Sam Durant Speaks About the Aftermath of His Controversial Minneapolis Sculpture
At Mexico City's SOMA headquarters, Sam Durant reflected on his "Scaffold" sculpture and how there's an enormous disparity between the art world and everyday life in the United States.
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This week in art news: A federal judge ordered $81 million be paid to victims of the Knoedler Gallery art forgery, an art investigator believes the work stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in Ireland, and an unpublished book by Maurice Sendak was discovered.
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Posing for Photo, Gallery Visitor Topples Row of Pedestals Like Dominos [UPDATED]
In an LA exhibition by artist Simon Birch, a visitor lost her balance and damaged $200,000 worth of art.
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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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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.