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Report Finds Huge Gender Gap in Polish Art Schools
A new report by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation investigates a stark disparity in Poland’s art academies: women constitute 77% of students but only 22% of professors.
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New Database Connects Contemporary Iraqi Artists to the Rest of the World
Nearly 400 portfolios of contemporary Iraqi artists are now available for you to explore, courtesy of a new and publicly accessible online database — the first of its kind.
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A Speedy 3D Printer for Huge, Industrial Objects
Since 3D printing went mainstream, there's been much buzz about a future filled with 3D printed buildings, cars, and airplanes.
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Lost Caravaggio May Have Been Discovered in French Attic
A painting that a French family found in their attic while investigating a leaky roof may be a long-lost Caravaggio.
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Artist Hopes to Flush Binaries with Gender-Neutral Bathroom Sign
Last month, North Carolina's Governor Pat McCrory approved House Bill 2, implementing a statewide law that requires individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificates.
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Townhouse Gallery’s Main Cairo Space Escapes the Wrecking Ball
CAIRO — This evening, around 6:15pm local time, Townhouse Gallery’s lawyer confirmed that a committee of engineers has deemed a demolition order, issued on Saturday, unnecessary.
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As MoMA Expands, Galleries Devoted to Specific Disciplines May Disappear [UPDATED]
As part of its ongoing plans to renovate and expand its building, the Museum of Modern Art will reconfigure its third floor, which currently houses its Architecture and Design, Photography, and Drawings galleries — a move that may drastically reduce the number of rooms in the museum devoted to speci
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: seven Andy Warhol prints went missing from a museum, two men were arrested as authorities recovered a stolen Edvard Munch, and a Russian cultural critic was murdered.
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University of Kansas Acquires 1,000 Zines from a Defunct Radical Library
The University of Kansas Libraries recently acquired over 1,000 zines from the former Solidarity radical organization in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the Panama Papers revealed the owner of a disputed Modigliani painting, German and Swiss museums planned a joint show of art from the Cornelius Gurlitt trove, and 2,000 fans of a Scottish soccer club received giant foam thumbs designed by David Shrigley.
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Cairo's Townhouse Gallery Partially Collapses
The façade of the historic building building at 10 Nabrawy Street in downtown Cairo that houses part of the revered Townhouse Gallery collapsed on Wednesday morning.
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European Art Award Canceled After Two Nominees Withdraw [UPDATED]
Organizers of the Vincent Van Gogh Biennial Award — known as the Vincent Award — have cancelled this year's edition of the contemporary art prize, presented biennially since 2000 to a mid-career artist who lives and/or works in Europe.