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This week in art news: Hans Haacke's "Gift Horse" was unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square, the Smithsonian and Palace of Versailles banned selfie sticks, and a 68-year-old German pensioner commenced his search for the long lost "Amber Room."
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Vincent van Gogh's reds have been turning white, but the exact reason why has remained unclear.
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For centuries, tourists have flocked to Cairo to behold the Pyramids of Giza firsthand.
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Scholars estimate that in North Africa and the Middle East alone, there could be up to five million archaeological sites. The majority are still unknown or else have never been officially recorded.
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On this week's art crime blotter: Brothers trying to offload fake Goya get conned, gallery manager siphons off $450,000 from Botero sale, and French thieves make off with the King of Siam's crown.
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A new study revealed that red, purple, and pink promote image sharing online, while green, blue, black, and yellow suppress it
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Leonard Nimoy, the actor whose name and face were synonymous with Star Trek's Spock, died this morning at the age of 83.
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This week in art news: The Barnes discovers two new Cézannes, the US returns a stolen Picasso to France, and a professional basketball team drops $8 million on a Koons.
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Perhaps it doesn’t take Kim Kardashian’s bare bottom to #BreaktheInternet. An image of a perfectly innocent lace sheath dress has made its way around the internet — no bare bottoms or exposed skin in sight — as its colors have become the subject of heated debate.
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The lion's share of the art galleries in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood, long housed along a hallway on the second floor of 111 Front Street, will move this spring.
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In advance of soccer teams Feyenoord and AS Roma facing off again tonight, the Dutch Senate has said that its government should pay for the restoration of the Bernini fountain damaged by Feyenoord fans in Rome last week.
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A video released on Thursday by ISIS shows members of the terrorist organization destroying ancient Assyrian artifacts at the Mosul Museum and the nearby Nineveh archaeological site.