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In a letter to the Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, the signatories advocate for the removal of monuments to Christopher Columbus, J. Marion Sims, and Teddy Roosevelt.
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"We're really here to point that out that this is not an appropriate use of American technology," said a member of Artcolectivist, a binational group involved in the light graffiti-project.
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This week in art news: the director of the Louvre revealed he's negotiating for a loan of "Salvator Mundi," Egypt accused a 95-year-old Australian woman of looting antiquities, and a federal judge refused to release a Gardner Museum heist person of interest from domestic confinement.
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The museum's director says he is in talks with the buyer of the record-setting painting to display it in Paris next year.
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The oft-vandalized mural was removed from its original site on the wall of a warehouse in 2014 and placed in the hands of local conservator Elise Grenier.
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During Tuesday's Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers hearing at Staten Island Borough Hall, speakers focused nearly exclusively on the Columbus Circle statue.
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According to Instagram's own statistics, the Louvre was the seventh-most 'grammed place in the world and topped the museum list yet again.
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"Happiness is ahead of you," promises Angelhaha founder Qinmin Liu.
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This week in art news: a portrait recently reattributed to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo went on view at the Frick, an audit attributed Documenta's budget deficit to its Athens expansion, and a monument to the first cat in space was successfully crowdfunded.
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The Library of Congress has acquired and digitized the 16th-century Codex Quetzalecatzin, a rare Mesoamerican record of early European contact.
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During a four-hour public hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday, Central Park's Sims statue was universally reviled, while monuments to Columbus, Roosevelt, and others provoked mixed commentary.
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While debate swirls over a redesign of Philip Johnson's postmodern skyscraper, it's unclear what will happen to Rockburne's two site-specific paintings in the building's lobby.