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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.
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The Sophisticated Design of a 3,000-Year-Old Wooden Toe
Researchers are studying anew one of the oldest prosthetic devices ever made.
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An 18th-Century Botanical Coloring Book for Adults
A scientist found The Florist, a coloring book printed in 1760, in the library of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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Cease-and-Desist Letter Leaves the McMansion Hell Blog in Purgatory [UPDATED]
Kate Wagner has taken her irreverent architecture criticism blog offline after the online real estate listings aggregator Zillow accused her of violating the company's terms of use.
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Andrew Wyeth’s Paintings Featured on New USPS Stamps
Andrew Wyeth's melancholic paintings of rural American life will soon be available as postage stamps, released on the centennial of his birth.
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A Glimpse Inside the Street Art–Themed 5Pointz Condos
The first renderings of the luxury development show its logo in wildstyle lettering and graffiti-inspired wall art in stairwells and lounges.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the 12th-century Grand Al-Nuri Mosque was destroyed in Mosul, Leonardo DiCaprio handed over Picasso and Basquiat paintings implicated in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad fund scandal, and an anonymous artist painted bathing suits on Antony Gormley's beach figures.
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Nazi Artifacts Found in Secret Room at Collector’s Home in Argentina
Over 75 Nazi artifacts were discovered hidden behind a bookcase in a suburban Buenos Aires home.
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US Arts Nonprofits Generated $166.3 Billion in Spending in 2015, Report Shows
A new report shows how the nonprofit culture sector stimulates the economy both locally and nationally.