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Faced with Faltering Economy, Mexican Government Slashes Arts Funding
MEXICO CITY — As the US economy has picked up steam in the last few years, falling oil prices and a stronger dollar have left the peso floundering.
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Artists Demand NYPD Return Edward Snowden Statue
On Tuesday morning civil rights lawyer Ronald Kuby and NYC Park Advocates president Geoffrey Croft held a press conference in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park demanding the return of the sculpture bust of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden that three artists illegally installed there last week.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Castle manager disappears 58 paintings, art thief returns loot to restaurant, opera company sells bronze sculpture for scrap.
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Anti-Hillary Clinton Street Art Surfaces Near Her Brooklyn Campaign HQ
Within mere hours of Hillary Clinton announcing her long-anticipated bid for the 2016 presidency, anti-Clinton street art began cropping up in the vicinity of her Brooklyn campaign headquarters.
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ISIS Video Shows Devastating Destruction of Ancient Assyria's Capital
They were removing "signs of idolatry." That's what an ISIS fighter said in a video published online Saturday.
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Newly Discovered Cézanne Sketches Go on Display at the Barnes Foundation
Two Cézanne sketches found by conservators at the Barnes Foundation earlier this year went on view at the collection in Philadelphia today.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: The lease for Warhol's first studio sold for $13,750, the United States Postal Service botched a stamp commemorating Maya Angelou, and the Tate released its third Minecraft map.
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One of Ancient Egypt's Most Celebrated Paintings May Be a 19th-Century Fake
According to an Italian Egyptologist, one of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo's most prized ancient paintings could be a 19th-century archeological forgery.
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Should There be a Statute of Limitations on Nazi-Looted Art?
Should countries set a deadline for restitution claims brought by descendants of Holocaust victims whose art was looted by the Nazis?
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An Architectural Competition to Reimagine the World's Most Remote Human Settlement
Despite an active volcano, intense winds, and a location 10 days by boat from its nearest neighbor, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas — the most remote human settlement in the world — has endured for nearly two centuries.
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Rogue Light Artists Revive Brooklyn's Lost Edward Snowden Monument
After an unauthorized sculpture bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was installed and quickly removed in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park, the Illuminator shone a ghostly version onto its empty pedestal.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Russians rob Pierre Soulages, another dog sculpture scampers off, antiquities dealer busted selling loot, and more.