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David Choe’s Controversial Bowery Mural Tagged with Giant Letters [UPDATED]
The graffiti crew Big Time Mafia has scrawled its initials across Choe's controversial Lower East Side mural, completed less than a week ago.
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Students Fight Proposed Cuts to the Humanities at SUNY Stony Brook
To mitigate an anticipated budget shortfall of $1.5 million, Stony Brook University has slated multiple humanities programs for consolidation, including suspending admission of new majors to the Theatre Arts department.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: two men were charged with involuntary manslaughter for the Ghost Ship warehouse fire, Dakota Nation members suspended plans to burn Sam Durant's "Scaffold," and the Rijksmuseum's 10-millionth visitor spent the night under Rembrandt's "The Night Watch."
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First House Built by Antoni Gaudí Will Become a Museum
Following a major two-year restoration, Casa Vicens is opening to the public for the first time in the building's 130-year-old history.
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Former Worker Sues Glass Artist Dale Chihuly, Claiming Co-Authorship of Works
According to a countersuit filed by Chihuly, the man, a former contract worker, recently demanded the artist pay him $21 million.
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After a Dakota Ceremony, Dismantling of Controversial Sculpture Begins in Minneapolis
On Friday, Dakota elders led a ceremony that included a blessing for construction workers who then started to take apart Sam Durant's controversial installation "Scaffold."
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Sam Durant and members of the Dakota Nation agreed to ceremonially burn his Walker Art Center sculpture, activists demanded the removal of a Confederate monument in St. Louis, and the diocese of Málaga chastised street artist Space Invader.
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One of the World’s Oldest Art Workshops Is a Cave in Ethiopia
According to a new study, the Porc-Epic Cave served as a site for the continuous production of ochre powder for at least 4,500 years.
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LGBTQ Refugee Rights Group Steals Artwork from Documenta in Athens
In an act of protest against the German quinquennial, the group Lgbtqi+ Refugees in Greece has rock-napped Roger Bernat's sculptural replica of an ancient monolith.
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Study Claims 80.5% of Artists Represented by NYC’s Top 45 Galleries Are White
How diverse are the artists shown at New York's art galleries? Well …
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Controversial Sculpture in Minneapolis Will Be Dismantled and Ceremonially Burned
After protests from the local Dakota nation, Sam Durant’s "Scaffold" will be taken apart starting tomorrow.
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Facing Protests from Islamist Groups, Bangladesh Relocates a Statue of Lady Justice
A statue of Lady Justice in front of the Supreme Court in Bangladesh was removed last Friday and reinstalled two days later in a different spot, where no one can see it from the street.