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Smithsonian Digitizes 40,000 Artworks from Asia
Beginning today, art lovers around the world can peruse the entire collections of two Smithsonian Asian art museums from the comfort of their homes.
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Free at Last! Munch, Mondrian, and Kandinsky Enter the Public Domain
A new year means new entrants into the public domain for the January 1, 2015, Public Domain Day.
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Free at Last! Munch, Mondrian, and Kandinsky Enter the Public Domain
A new year means new entrants into the public domain for the January 1, 2015, Public Domain Day.
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Cold War Flashback: Great Britain's Plan to Save Its Art from Nuclear War
The threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union reached new heights in the early 1980s, prompting authorities in Great Britain to devise a plan for saving its greatest art treasures, Bloomberg reports.
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Artist Tania Bruguera Allegedly Detained in Cuba Over Public Performance [UPDATED]
The artist Tania Bruguera has likely been detained by Cuban authorities who prevented her from staging a performance yesterday in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución, according to multiple media reports and the artist's sister.
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More Than 6,000 Wallpaper Designs Digitized
Wallpaper has been the subject of exhibitions at institutions like New York's International Print Center and Manchester's Whitworth Gallery, and artists like Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst have even created their own designs.
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Secret London Crime Museum May Open for First Time in 150 Years
London's infamous and off-limits "Black Museum" of macabre crime artifacts may finally open to the public as the Metropolitan Police faces budgets shortcomings.
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Art Sherlock Questions Whether Tracey Emin Really Slept in That Bed
What if art historians applied the same scrutiny to a contemporary installation by Tracey Emin as they did to a Renaissance masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci?
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a Mexican museum's Yayoi Kusama retrospective is mobbed, Tate must reveal the details of BP sponsorship, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts picks up a trove of Constructivist photographs.
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Smithsonian Acquires Video Game So Atrocious It Was Buried in the Desert
One of the most disastrous video games in history is now part of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Major Vivian Maier Collector Sells Holdings to Toronto Gallery
Collector Jeffrey Goldstein has sold the bulk of his Vivian Maier collection to Toronto's Stephen Bulger Gallery, largely removing himself from the ongoing legal saga surrounding the photographer's estate.
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The Fight for Japan's Modernist Architecture
Tokyo's skyline has been increasingly crowded by construction cranes since Japan's winning bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games.