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Artist Claims Topshop Ripped off His Designs
Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed has accused Topshop of plagiarism after discovering a T-shirt on the company's website printed with an image that resembles his signature artworks.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: A painting of a pregnant woman by Lisa Yuskavage was censored on the cover of Vault magazine, Israel's supreme court ruled that Franz Kafka's manuscripts belong to the National Library of Israel, and Mark Wallinger installed a mirror on the ceiling of Sigmund Freud’s study.
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Evidence Mounts that Rembrandt Used Optics to Paint Self-Portraits
A new study of Rembrandt's self-portraits provides more evidence to theories that the 17th-century artist, among other Old Master painters, used optics to produce his remarkably accurate works.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: artist Giancarlo Neri lost funding for his Olympic art installation, Turkish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan was arrested as part of President Erdogan’s crackdown in the wake of last month’s failed coup d’état, and a long-lost copper engraving by Albrecht Dürer was recovered
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Norwegian youths destroyed a stone-age engraving of a skier, Mary Boone sued an art adviser over allegedly ill-gotten KAWS works, and a Salvador Dalí sculpture was vandalized in Quebec City.
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Arts Professionals Condemn BP’s Renewed Cultural Sponsorships in the UK
Over 200 arts professionals and scientists have signed an open letter in The Times calling for an end to BP's new, five-year sponsorship deals with four major cultural institutions in the UK.
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19th-Century Peepshows Offer 3D Glimpses of the Past
Long before cardboard VR viewers, there were paper peepshows: pocket-sized stage sets with illustrated backdrops and paper cut-out scenes, which expand like accordion books to create an illusion of depth when you peer through eyeholes.
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Discover NYC's Over 1,000 Public Artworks with a New Interactive Map
New York City has over 1,000 monuments across the five boroughs, and the new NYC Public Art Map and Guide plots them on an interactive map
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More Than 40 Artists and Designers Accuse Zara of Plagiarism
A week ago, Los Angeles-based artist Tuesday Bassen posted a photo on Instagram contrasting her original designs for pins and patches with alleged ripoffs sold by Zara, the international clothing brand.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the European Court of Human Rights threw out a lawsuit calling for the return of the Elgin Marbles, BP slashed its cultural funding by £2.5 million, and a digital artwork commissioned by the Hammer Museum was mistaken for advertising.
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Detroit Institute of Arts Launches Initiative to Deepen Collection of African American Art
Last week, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) acquired “Bird” (1990), a striking sculpture by David Hammons.
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Anti-Gentrification Coalition Calls for Galleries to Leave LA's Boyle Heights
LOS ANGELES — The latest development in the debate over art and gentrification in Boyle Heights took place earlier this month, when a public forum was held at the Pico Gardens complex, part of the largest public housing bloc west of the Mississippi.