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Art Collectors and Museum Patrons Among Biggest Donors to Trump’s Inauguration
A document listing all the contributions to Donald Trump's $106.7 million inauguration includes the names of quite a few art world power players.
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Bushwick Street Artists Threaten Legal Action Against McDonald’s for Using Their Work
The work appeared in a Dutch ad titled "McDonald's Presents the Vibe of Bushwick NY."
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New York-Historical Society Offers Workshops for US Residents Seeking Citizenship
The New-York Historical Society will launch the Citizenship Project, a major initiative to offer green card holders free civics and American history workshops led by the museum's educators.
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Painter Barkley L. Hendricks Dies at 72
The artist, best known for his bold portraits of Black people, passed away early this morning.
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Protesters Honor Ana Mendieta at LA Opening of Carl Andre Retrospective
Artists and activists gathered at MOCA Geffen to protest what they consider Mendieta’s erasure from the canon and the disassociation of her death from Andre’s story.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the co-founders of a Tehran gallery were charged with attempting to overthrow the Iranian government, demonstrators protested the opening of Carl Andre’s retrospective at LA MOCA, and a man stepped on a blue pigment piece by Yves Klein during a press conference in Nice.
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Sculptor of Wall Street’s “Charging Bull” Demands Relocation of “Fearless Girl” [UPDATED]
In a letter sent through his lawyer, Arturo Di Modica claims that the new statue violates the Visual Artists Rights Act and illegally commercializes his own sculpture.
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Bipartisan Letter from Over 150 Members of Congress Urges More Money for the NEA
While President Trump has called for the agency's elimination, more than 150 members of Congress want to increase funding to the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Today Is Henry Darger Day in Chicago
On what would be the self-taught artist's 125th birthday, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art is holding a daylong celebration formally recognized by the mayor of Chicago.
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Peruse 1,000-Year-Old Medical Remedies, from Ox Bile to Mandrake Root
The British Library owns the only extant illustrated Old English herbal, and it recently digitized the entire manuscript.
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For the First Time, Metropolitan Museum Will Display Indigenous Art in Its American Wing
With a major promised gift of 91 works of Native American art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will now include indigenous art in its galleries on American art.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: pioneering Pop artist James Rosenquist died, 5Pointz artists were cleared to sue the site’s developer, and a crucifix attributed to Michelangelo was reinstalled at a church in Florence.