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Harvard Adds the Blackest Black to Its Historical Pigment Collection
Harvard Art Museums acquired a sample of Vantablack, a material that absorbs almost 100% of light.
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Boyle Heights Activists Question LAPD's Hate Crime Charge
After the words “Fuck White Art" were anonymously spray-painted on the roll-up gate of Nicodim Gallery, the LAPD said it would treat the act of vandalism as a hate crime.
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Helsinki City Council Kills Plan for Costly Guggenheim Satellite
Helsinki will not be home to another Guggenheim outpost, Finnish lawmakers decided on Wednesday night, voting 53 to 32 reject the controversial plans for a new museum.
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This week in art news: a museum discovered that an 800-year-old Mixtec skull in its collection is a forgery, Iran barred works from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art from leaving the country, and Zaha Hadid Architects distanced itself from principal Patrik Schumacher's pro-gentrification comment
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Egyptian Writer Convicted of "Violating Public Modesty" Faces Final Appeal
Ahmed Naji is currently serving a two-year prison sentence, after a man claimed the author's words made him sick.
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A Saudi Artist Hoists Flags at Standing Rock to Bring Attention to the Environmental Crisis
One Saudi artist sees parallels between the battle to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and the impact of oil in his own country.
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An Artist's "End White Supremacy" Sign Lights Up a New York Gallery's Facade
Sam Durant's "End White Supremacy" goes up on the facade of the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, and when it comes down is anyone's guess.
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Cuban Authorities Detain Dissident Artist the Day After Castro’s Death [UPDATED]
While exiled Cubans reveled in the death of the ruthless leader, artist Danilo "El Sexto" Maldonado Machado was taken from his home in Havana and thrown in prison.
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150 Artists and Activists Take Their Trump Protest to Ivanka's Doorstep
Over 150 artists, writers, curators, gallery workers, and other activists showed up outside Ivanka Trump's Manhattan apartment in a protest organized by Halt Action Group.
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In Wake of Trump's Election, Protestors Address Climate Change at the British Museum
In a performance at the British Museum, the theatrical protest group BP or not BP? marked the final weekend of a BP-sponsored exhibition and responded to the election of Donald Trump.
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Another Awkward Thanksgiving
Post-Thanksgiving realities.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Giorgio Vasari's "Last Supper" was reinstalled 50 years after being damaged by flooding, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned a white nationalist conference that took place nearby, and David Hockney was commissioned to create a stained glass window for Westminster Abbey.