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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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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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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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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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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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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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One of the most disastrous video games in history is now part of the Smithsonian Institution.
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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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Tokyo's skyline has been increasingly crowded by construction cranes since Japan's winning bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
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After more than 250 small earthquakes shook Italy last week, the Italian Ministry of Culture announced it will spend €200,000 (~$245,000) on an anti-seismic base to secure Michelangelo's statue of David, the Agence France-Presse reported.
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The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, a wealthy suburb north of Detroit, sold a Paul Cézanne painting for $100 million last year, the historic home's 2013 tax forms recently revealed.
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The clothing retailer Scumbags & Superstars, which has a storefront space in Bushwick and an online store, has come under fire for its "disrespectful" appropriation of Native American imagery in its logo and merchandise.