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Art Institutions Share Secrets to Kick Off #MuseumWeek
Yesterday marked the beginning of Museum Week, an annual social media campaign that gives museums around the world the opportunity to engage with the public in a number of ways.
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A New Independent Radio Station Broadcasts from a Brooklyn Shipping Container
A sliver of land lying on the Williamsburg-Greenpoint border, long a neighborhood mystery home to a lone and enigmatic RV, now hosts a tiny independent radio station broadcasting music to listeners around the world.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the Syrian army moved closer to retaking the ancient city of Palmyra, Cuban artists and dissidents were detained in anticipation of President Obama's visit, and Moscow's Shukhov Tower was added to a watch list of at-risk cultural heritage sites.
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Artist Invites Havana Locals into His Studio for Free High-Speed Wifi
Artist Alexis Leiva Machado, who works under the pseudonym Kcho, has partnered with Google to bring high-speed wifi to the Cuban public at rates nearly 70 times faster than services currently available — and at no cost to users.
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Amassing the World's Largest Digital Transgender Archive
From letters written by female impersonators to illustrated guides to cross-dressing, material chronicling the experiences of transgender people is currently being digitized and catalogued online.
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From Kittens to Curling, Thousands of European Lantern Slides Are Going Online
Tens of thousands of magic lantern slides, for decades hidden in the collections of museums and archives across Europe, are currently being digitized and released into the public domain.
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James Baldwin's Longtime Home in Southern France Faces Demolition
The acclaimed writer James Baldwin moved from New York to Paris in 1948 and then to Saint-Paul de Vence in the south of France, where he eventually died with his longtime lover, the obscure Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger, at his side.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a museum's photography contest backfired terribly, the alleged perps behind Verona's €15 million art heist were arrested, and a trove of books on medieval witch hunts stolen by the Nazis was recovered.
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A 3D Database of Threatened Syrian Heritage Sites
A team of digital surveyors is working to create the world's largest 3D database of archaeological sites in Syria, focusing on those at risk of destruction.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: an anonymous artist blindfolded 100 public statues in Rio de Janeiro, Venice was declared Europe's most endangered heritage site, and the National Academy revealed plans to sell its buildings on Fifth Avenue.
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Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition
On Saturday night, the renowned and mysterious Italian street artist Blu went on an art-destroying spree through the streets of Bologna.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a trove of taxidermy animals went missing, five Francis Bacons were stolen, and a gang of crooked auction house porters went on trial.