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After days in detention, leading members of the arts community in Turkey, and members of the peace initiative “Barış İçin Yürüyorum (I Am Walking For Peace),” were released following their December 31 arrest in Sur, Turkey.
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This week in art news: Egyptian authorities raided a nonprofit gallery in Cairo, Ai Weiwei visited migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos, and preservationists criticized the Smithsonian for placing bright new signs on the façade of one of its historical buildings.
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This week in art news: Egyptian authorities raided a nonprofit gallery in Cairo, Ai Weiwei visited migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos, and preservationists criticized the Smithsonian for placing bright new signs on the façade of one of its historical buildings.
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Since Christmas Eve, some lights along the streets and in the houses of Bushwick have spelled out a number of messages quite different from the festive wishes one usually finds during the holiday season.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: photos of same-sex couples are vandalized, Justin Bieber's street stencil campaign irks San Francisco, and a man wearing a panda hat steals art from a King Kong fast food restaurant.
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Ellsworth Kelly, one of the most strident pioneers of abstraction and minimalism in the United States from the 1950s onward, has died at age 92.
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This week in art news: a fire at Brazil's Museum of the Portuguese Language left one dead, the family of art dealer Daniel Wildenstein braced for a trial over $600M in tax fraud and money laundering, and archivists preserved artworks left in the streets of Paris after last month's terror attacks.
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Art classes are often the first to be sacrificed from school curriculums when budgets get cut — which makes the 2014–15 New York City Department of Education “Annual Arts in Schools Report" a welcome bit of good news for young artists in the five boroughs.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a photographer sued Jeff Koons over a painting from 1986, an art thief tagged the artist in an Instagram post of his loot, and Nicolas Cage agreed to return a stolen dinosaur skull.
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Last year, New Orleans-based artist Ally Burguieres painted a picture of a smiley little fox. A few months later, Burguieres was surprised to find that pop star Taylor Swift had shared an image that looked exactly like the fox painting on Instagram.
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Western media stories about cultural heritage destruction have recently focused on places like Syria, Iraq, and Libya.