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LOS ANGELES — Yesterday was Graduation Day at the University of Southern California, however there was a conspicuous absence at the commencement ceremony for the Roski School of Art and Design.
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The news that a third member of the Gulf Labor Artist Coalition was barred from entering the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has many people wondering what this means for the future of the Gulf nation's growing art community.
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This week in art news: The Isabella Stewart Gardner puts up $100,000 to get a stolen Napoleonic eagle back, convicted art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi prepares for his first solo exhibition, and Christie's sold over a billion dollars worth of art.
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With news agencies today reporting that ISIS is just outside of Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, one of the world's most important archaeological sites is at risk of destruction.
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LOS ANGELES — Citing “the University’s unethical treatment of its students,” the entire class of first year MFA students at USC’s Roski School of Art has decided to leave the school, according to a statement they released today.
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Today, Hyperallergic spoke to artist Walid Raad, who informed us that three days ago he was denied entry to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as he tried to attend the Sharjah Art Foundation's March Meetings.
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Kanye West received his honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) yesterday. The night before, he gave a talk at the school that began as a question-and-answer session but devolved, quite wonderfully, into a rambling, free-associative lecture.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: Jonathan Meese acquitted in Nazi salute dispute, Picasso works disappear in transit, and Charles Saatchi sues Saatchi Art for Saatchi name.
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On Tuesday, Tate Modern announced the four nominees for the 2015 Turner Prize: multidisciplinary artist Bonnie Camplin, sound and performance artist Janice Kerbel, sculpture, installation, and collage artist Nicole Wermers, and the architecture collective Assemble.
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VENICE — The Abounaddara collective has withdrawn from All the World's Futures, the 2015 Venice Biennale's central exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor, claiming that their opening short film, "All the Syria's Futures," was "censored" by not being screened on May 5.
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Chris Burden, an artist famous both for his pioneering performance work in the 1970s and the intricate large-scale sculptures he made in the ensuing decades, died early Sunday morning at his home in Topanga Canyon, California.
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VENICE — Friday's three-hour occupation of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice by arts and activists organizations resulted in a brief meeting between a number of protesters and members of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection staff.