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Authorities in Iran have confiscated the passport of prominent Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli, who suspects he is being targeted for featuring an image of a woman on the cover of his new book.
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“Truth heads into naked people bodies bodies whole complete living naked women avoid facial expression make bodies expressive of feeling,” scribbled painter Lucian Freud in one of the sketchbooks now on display at London's National Portrait Gallery.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: an abducted alien sculpture was recovered, a recovering meth addict returned a stolen Thomas Kinkade sculpture, and wild Winnipeggers smashed a public art installation.
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This week in art news: a new report suggested that Bavaria’s State Paintings Collections sold off Nazi loot after World War II, satellite imagery confirmed that ISIS destroyed the Temple of Nabu in Nimrud, and Kanye West released a new music video inspired by the work of artist Vincent Desiderio.
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This week in art news: a new report suggested that Bavaria’s State Paintings Collections sold off Nazi loot after World War II, satellite imagery confirmed that ISIS destroyed the Temple of Nabu in Nimrud, and Kanye West released a new music video inspired by the work of artist Vincent Desiderio.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Somewhere in the city, there are white Mercedes Benzes, peace signs, and hearts floating up into the sky.
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In Laura Lima's current exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Miami — the Brazilian artist's first solo museum show in the US — a braided, blue industrial nylon rope snakes through the building's massive atrium, crawling over its white columns and beams to form an imposing, tangled w
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Real estate developers whitewashing or tearing down walls covered in graffiti is a familiar narrative, but it appears we may have reached such an advanced stage in the cooptation of street art that those days will soon be at an end.
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After more than 150 years of documenting the faces and landscapes of India, a photo studio that many considered the world's oldest in operation has shuttered.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a Florida man beheaded a 13th-century statue, a man was arrested under suspicion of stealing a trailer full of blue-chip art, and a 300-pound sculpture of a bear turned up 700 miles from where it went missing.
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Waving signs that read, "Art changes lives," "Art bites back," and "Value artists," a crowd on Friday, June 17 swarmed outside the Sydney office of Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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In early April, a disturbing sight appeared on the central Vietnamese coast.