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The Frick Acquires Elephant Wine Dispenser and Other Rare 18th-Century Porcelain
Easily breakable, porcelain is probably not the most practical material for making vessels intended to hold alcoholic beverages.
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Anti-BP Protesters Release Pirates, Merpeople, and the Kraken at the British Museum
LONDON — The irony of oil company BP sponsoring the British Museum’s current exhibition Sunken Cities will have been lost on few.
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This Nude Statue of Donald Trump Could Be Yours!
One of the infamous nude Trump sculptures that street art collective INDECLINE recently planted across the country could be yours to keep and hand down as a historic, horrific family keepsake.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Ai Weiwei's lawyer was jailed for 12 years, a fire tore through Stockholm's Royal Institute of Art, and a statue of Vladimir Lenin was removed from the East Village.
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Gowanus Artists Are Evicted from Building, and Trash Pickup Suddenly Halts [UPDATED]
Garbage has been piling up for weeks in the halls of 112 2nd Avenue.
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Mary Reid Kelley, Joyce J. Scott, and Other Art Worlders Win MacArthur "Genius Grants"
Several artists are among the just-announced winners of this year's John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships, often called "genius grants."
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Appropriated Images of Black People Spark Boycott of St. Louis Museum [UPDATED]
Kelley Walker's solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis features photographs of black men and women smeared with chocolate and toothpaste that have triggered a public boycott of the institution.
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Activists in LA’s Boyle Heights Serve Galleries with Eviction Notices
LOS ANGELES — “No one is an innocent actor in the fine art of gentrification,” said a woman with a bandana covering her face, as she stood with dozens of protesters last Saturday evening outside of Museum as Retail Space, a gallery in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
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At NY Public Library, Books Now Ride the Rails from the Stacks to the Reading Room
A fleet of 24 cars will soon be delivering material from the stacks of the New York Public Library along the tracks of its new "book train."
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NEA Report Calls for Diversifying the Art World and Curbing Art Student Debt
The population of artists in the US is growing and diversifying (slowly), art schools don't prepare students for the real world, and artists are still poor.
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Over 1,200 Archaeologists and Museum Staff Condemn Destruction Wrought by Dakota Pipeline
In a letter released today, 1,281 archaeologists, museum directors and staff, anthropologists, and historians expressed their solidarity against the destruction at Standing Rock by the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Archaeologists in Turkey Find Neolithic Female Statuette Intact
The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, consists of two settlement mounds — the remains of houses continually built over old ones — that have yielded many treasures since archaeologists began excavations in the 1960s.