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Explore Sir John Soane's Wondrous Museum in 3D
The team at ScanLAB projects has been working with the Sir John Soane Museum to create an online replica of the institution.
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This week in art news: San Francisco's Academy of Art University agreed to pay the city a $60-million settlement, a Manhattan art dealer was charged with trafficking illegal antiquities, and the first UK exhibition dedicated to the Moomins opened in London.
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At Day for Night Festival, a Surreal World of Light Provides Respite from the Music
In a modernist complex in downtown Houston, artists transform the dark corners and rooms into a light-filled cluster of art.
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LGBTQ Activists Attacked by Trump Supporters While Leaving NYC Art Space
A group of people leaving the closing party of Decolonize This Place at the Tribeca nonprofit Artists Space were attacked by men who identified themselves as supporters of Donald Trump.
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#DecolonizeThisPlace Pens an Open Letter to the Incoming Director of Artists Space
An open letter to the new director of Artists Space from the people involved in the Decolonize This Place residency.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: ISIS recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the release of two jailed Tehran gallerists, and an 18th-century Chinese seal sold for $22 million at auction — over 20 times its estimate.
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Art Workers Organize a Fair for Political Action
This Saturday's Forward Union Fair intends to connect visitors with nonprofits and community groups, and to help people find ways to become politically active.
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Saved by Shakespeare's Father, a Series of Medieval Murals Is Finally Restored
A group of wall paintings in Stratford-upon-Avon's Guild Chapel should have been destroyed in 1563, but John Shakespeare had them covered in limewash instead, preserving them for centuries.
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Baltimore Loses a DIY Haven for Marginalized Artists
On December 5, city fire marshals and the housing authority condemned the Bell Foundry, a DIY venue that had become a home for local artists with marginalized identities.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Acquires Nearly 100 Works by Self-Taught Artists
The Margaret Z. Robson Collection is the institution's largest acquisition of its kind in two decades.
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The Raw Expression of a Rare, Emaciated Buddha
A number of rare sculptures illustrate how starved Buddha would have been after fasting for seven weeks. One of them is being seen publicly for the first time this week ahead of auction.
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As Artist’s Murder Trial Drags On, Display of His Work Sparks Uproar
A work by the South African photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa, who is still on trial for the 2013 murder of a sex worker in Cape Town, was included in an exhibition intended to empower women.