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The Unlikely Connection Between the Whitney Museum and Riot Gear
We all know it costs a lot of money to sit on the board of a major art museum, so naturally the question becomes: where does that money come from?
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The Unlikely Connection Between the Whitney Museum and Riot Gear
We all know it costs a lot of money to sit on the board of a major art museum, so naturally the question becomes: where does that money come from?
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Sad News for Satanists: Oklahoma's Ten Commandments Monument Must Go
Today the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the granite Ten Commandments currently standing on the state capitol grounds must be removed.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: artist sues Starbucks over "Mini Frappuccino" design, staff at Spanish tourist destination use audio guides to launder money, and the creator of the giant inflatable rubber duck sculptures disowns one of his ducklings.
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US Museums Criticized for Mishandling Nazi Art Restitution Cases
A new report on the restitution of Holocaust-era artworks condemns a number of US museums for failing to resolve claims straightforwardly and instead resorting to legal maneuvers to have them dismissed.
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Bangladeshi Government Breaches Historic Fort Wall to Make Way for a Parking Lot
The English-language newspaper Dhaka Tribune reported on Friday that part of a 400-year-old wall protecting the historic Lalbagh Qilla has been demolished — and that the Bangladeshi government's Archaeological Department signed off on the action.
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Escaped Convicts Swapped Celebrity Portrait Paintings for Tools
Art may calm disturbed minds, but Richard Matt's knack for drawing didn't keep him from snapping his 72-year-old boss's neck in 1997.
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Transatlantic Trade Agreement Could Spell Disaster for Culture
We all know about NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, but TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership currently being brokered between the United States and European Union, has received some attention in Europe and remarkably little in the US.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a number of rock paintings were documented for the first time in Colombia's Chiribiquete national park, David Shrigley designed a mascot for the Partick Thistle football club, and New York's Stonewall Inn received landmark status.
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Spanish Museum Director Who Gave Hairdresser a Solo Show Under Investigation
The Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, the main modern and contemporary art museum in Spain's third city, grossly inflated its attendance figures, overpaid for acquisitions, and made a number of other suspicious moves during the 10-year tenure of its former director, Consuelo Ciscar.
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Singapore's Huge National Gallery Will Open with Pompidou and Circumstance
The largest public collection of modern Southeast Asian art is opening this October, and the institution that will house it just announced a collaborative exhibition with the Centre Pompidou in 2016.
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ISIS Obliterates Two Early Islamic Tombs at Palmyra
The much-feared destruction of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra has begun.