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Hopi Tribe Fights to Halt French Sales of Sacred Artifacts for Good
Wednesday morning, Paris's Drouot auction house proceeded with a contentious sale of objects sacred to the Hopi Tribe of northern Arizona.
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Murder Trial of Artist Zwelethu Mthethwa Begins in South Africa
After two years of postponements, the trial of artist Zwelethu Mthethwa finally got underway last week in Cape Town. Mthethwa pleaded not guilty to the murder of a woman named Nokuphila Kumalo.
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Five Cooper Union Trustees Call It Quits
Last night five members of the Cooper Union's board of trustees resigned: real estate mogul Mark Epstein (the board's former chairman), Vassar College president Catharine Bond Hill, architects Daniel Libeskind and Francois de Menil (the board's vice chairman), and investment banker Monica Vachher.
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Lucian Freud's Silly and Suggestive Teenage Letters Go Up for Sale
Most of us would be embarrassed if private letters we'd written in the notorious naïveté of youth were read by strangers.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: cops catch Dale Chihuly employee stealing glass en masse, Nebraska teen lights sculpture on fire, and a Florida man's tin-foil-wrapped house is not a hit with neighbors.
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Artist Tania Bruguera Arrested Again in Havana, Injured by Police
This weekend artist Tania Bruguera was arrested once again in Cuba, along with dozens of other activists, and was manhandled by the police.
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MFA Boston Establishes John Singer Sargent Archive with Trove of Letters and Sketches
You might say that Boston was to John Singer Sargent what Florence was to Michelangelo.
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Nepalese Cultural Sites in Peril as Calls for Relief Go Unanswered
Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has said the country needs about $2 billion for reconstruction and has expressed the hope that all buildings — homes, businesses, and historic sites — will be back up in two years.
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The Queen's Vagina Sparks Controversy at Versailles
PARIS — Feminism has happily challenged the given of the privileged male in relationship to the female model and forced a re-evaluation of a visual culture that viewed the world from a white heterosexual male perspective.
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Painting Stolen from Bushwick Gallery Turns Up on Roosevelt Island
Sometime this morning, a painting went missing from English Kills Art Gallery.
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Talks Between the MoMA and Its Workers Stall Following Protest
A demonstration on Tuesday by workers at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) did little to advance negotiations between a union representing over 200 employees at the institution and museum administrators, who are maintaining their call for a cut to employee healthcare coverage.
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Colombia Will Build Museum for Victims of Ongoing Civil War
The National Center for Historical Memory has announced an international competition to design a National Museum of Memory to commemorate the victims of the fighting in Colombia.