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Explore the Harvard Art Museums’ Massive Bauhaus Collection Online
Home to one of the first and largest collections devoted to the Bauhaus, Harvard Art Museums now has a new, online resource that makes it easier to navigate these holdings.
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Work by Irving Penn and Other Teachers of the Famous Photographers School Emerges
In the 1950s and '60s, tens of thousands of students across the US were receiving an arts education by mail, through correspondence courses designed and distributed by the Famous Artists School on painting, illustration, and cartooning.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Tyree Guyton revealed plans to dismantle Detroit's Heidelberg Project, Marina Abramović excised a passage disparaging Aboriginal Australians from her forthcoming memoir, and a search began in Poland for a Nazi train full of gold.
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Street Artists Erect Nude Sculpture of Donald Trump in New York’s Union Square [UPDATED]
Today, Donald Trump stood nude in the center of Union Square.
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From a Melted Mac to Vintage Robots, Relics from Tekserve Go to Auction
On Monday, legendary tech shop Tekserve shuttered after a 29-year-run. On August 23, though, you can bid to own a piece of Tekserve history, with nearly 500 objects that filled all rooms of the store going to auction, from old typewriters to bulky vintage cameras.
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UK Museum Ethics Committee Rejects Allegations of Corruption in BP's Sponsorships
In May, the Art Not Oil coalition penned a 40-page report that suggests how BP takes advantage of its relationship with its sponsored cultural institutions, requesting that the Museums Association examine whether these deals are at all unethical.
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A Victorian Theater Frozen in Time Crowdfunds Its Reopening
A 19th-century theater that's been disused for over 80 years is preparing to reopen in London.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: two men tried to steal a copy of a Banksy, a sculptural tribute to Trump was set on fire, and Alec Baldwin accused Mary Boone of selling him the wrong Ross Bleckner painting.
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Activists Protest Swizz Beatz's Art Fair in the Bronx
Last weekend, the rapper and record producer Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean, along with Bacardi — for which he's reportedly the new “global chief of culture” — staged an art fair in the Bronx.
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University Plans to Remove Two WPA Murals for Colonial Depictions
Two WPA murals at the University of Wisconsin–Stout are planned to be removed from public view due to their colonial views of Native Americans.
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Artist Claims Topshop Ripped off His Designs
Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed has accused Topshop of plagiarism after discovering a T-shirt on the company's website printed with an image that resembles his signature artworks.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: A painting of a pregnant woman by Lisa Yuskavage was censored on the cover of Vault magazine, Israel's supreme court ruled that Franz Kafka's manuscripts belong to the National Library of Israel, and Mark Wallinger installed a mirror on the ceiling of Sigmund Freud’s study.