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Study Finds Some 3D Printers Emit Toxic Particles
In recent years, as 3D printers have become more affordable and mass-produceable, they've become commonplace in schools, homes, and creative studios.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a dog sculpture goes missing in Albuquerque, meth smugglers hide drugs in art supplies, and an artist sues Wu-Tang Clan and Martin Shkreli.
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Dive into Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" in Virtual Reality
Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" already offers its own immersive, bizarre experience, with scenes of Eden and hell framing a hallucinatory garden.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Facebook censored Evelyne Axell's 1964 Pop art painting "Ice Cream," a badger uncovered a trove of Bronze Age artifacts near Stonehenge, and Ann Freedman and the Knoedler Gallery settled a lawsuit brought by collectors who bought a fake Mark Rothko painting from the gallery.
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Federal Agency Finds Labor Violations at B&H Photo, Fines Company $32,000
Health and safety conditions at B&H Photo Video's two warehouses in Brooklyn do not meet federal labor standards, investigators with the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) have determined, confirming a number of worker allegations against the national electronics retailer.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an art dealer was accused of flogging forgeries, Airbnb renters stole their hosts' Banksy print, and Egyptian authorities arrested three men for selling chunks of the Giza pyramids to tourists.
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Dhaka Art Summit Censors Pro-Tibet Artwork at Chinese Ambassador's Request
Nangdrol, an 18-year-old Tibetan living in Sichuan Province, China, penned a farewell letter on February 19, 2012.
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Why the Closing of the Museum of Contemporary Craft Is a Major Loss
The next time you find yourself hate-reading a fawning profile of a photogenic young Brooklyn potter whose hot-pink-rimmed wares are transforming the “stuffy world of ceramics into a cool new craft” (or something to that effect), navigate yourself away from there, and instead visit the website of th
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Michelangelo's Tuscan Villa Could Be Yours for $8.4 Million
The deeds to Michelangelo's old Tuscan villa, a three-structure complex complete with Renaissance-age fixtures, functional wood-burning fireplaces, and an olive grove, could be yours for just $8,369,602.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Utah moved closer to designating "Spiral Jetty" its official state artwork, the Queens Museum announced it will give legendary punk group the Ramones a retrospective, and a mouse died at the Museum of English Rural Life after crawling into a historic mousetrap.
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New York Times Sues PowerHouse Books for Copyright Infringement
The New York Times is suing independent publisher PowerHouse Books and its CEO, Daniel Power, over a series of images appearing in a book that's highly critical of the Gray Lady's coverage of war.
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Michelangelo Worked Through Acute Arthritis in His Later Years, New Study Says
An article published this week by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine suggests that Michelangelo Buonaroti suffered from osteoarthritis for the last 15 years of his life.