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This week in art news: Christo's floating walkways were damaged following huge numbers of visitors, a 350-foot-tall statue of Christopher Columbus was inaugurated in Puerto Rico, and Banksy's spray-painted SWAT van headed to auction.
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A few weeks ago, in Las Vegas, the T.RUMP Bus — a former Donald Trump campaign bus transformed into a traveling anti-Trump art project — got egged in a Walmart parking lot. Later, in Denver, a man spray-painted an inverted pentagram on its side.
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Many reports have emerged of harsh labor conditions during the construction of museums on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island, but the cultural institutions involved are showing no interest in discussing these violations with leading human rights groups.
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LOS ANGELES — It’s been a year since the entire incoming MFA class at USC’s Roski School of Art decided to drop out en masse, leaving the program with only one student this year, HaeAhn Kwon. In an open letter to Provost Michael Quick, Kwon announced today that she too would be leaving the program,
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On this week’s art crime blotter: Turkish police seized Muammar Gaddafi's $10-million dagger, "some feminists" attacked a mural of Bettie Page, and a pair of Spanish thieves amassed a trove of 10,000 artifacts.
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Yesterday, Radar Online published what appears to be a leaked version of an incomplete police report on Michael Jackson, and the document cites several contemporary art books apparently found at the singer's home during a 2003 raid.
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Today the Malmö Art Academy (MAA) in Malmö, Sweden, held an open house at the Mellersta Förstadsskolan, the 1898 building that has been its home for the past 21 years.
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Two hundred-and-twenty-five Jewish leaders from congregations, universities, and cultural institutions across the nation are calling for B&H Photo Video to end management practices that allegedly violate some of their workers' rights.
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This week in art news: Johnny Depp consigned nine Basquiat paintings to Christie's, Tate Modern unveiled its new wing, and artist Ronnie van Hout installed a 16-foot-tall sculpture of his hand atop the Christchurch Art Gallery.
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A massive monument has been discovered buried under sands at the Petra World Heritage site in southern Jordan.
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TEL AVIV-JAFFA — Israeli artist Dani Karavan, known for his site-specific sculptures in Israel and Europe, requested on Wednesday that the relief on the wall of the Knesset Plenum Hall that he completed in 1966 be taken down in light of the Israeli government’s conduct.
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"Come to me, O Paean, and bring with you the true oracle," reads the inscriptions in an oracle well used to communicate with the Olympian god Apollo that was recently discovered in Athens.