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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.
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Around 52,000 letters, sketchbooks, photographs, and other ephemera of 20th-century British artists will be accessible online by next summer. The first 6,000 items were revealed this month as part of the Tate Archive.
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This week in art news: Smithsonian digitization, street artist Blu destroys one of his own murals, and MoMA decides to display a 60-panel work of art for the first time in twenty years.
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At what point does artistic appropriation become copyright infringement? A Jeff Koons sculpture has reopened the 50-year-old debate.
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Of the 331 people arrested amid last week’s massive New York protests, one is an especially unlikely suspect: Eric Linsker, a poet and adjunct writing professor at the City University of New York.
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The nonprofit art space Smack Mellon in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood is planning an open call exhibition in response to the non-indictments of the police officers who killed Mike Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in Staten Island, and the protests that followed.
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The art magazine Mute has published a call for the boycott of London's Zabludowicz Collection over its founder's connection to the Israeli arms trade and lobbying efforts. The digressive text, which according to Mute's editorial introduction was "originally published online a few months ago," was po
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Al-Sultaniyah Madrasa, established in 1223 and containing the tomb of Sultan Saladin's son Sultan Malik al-Zaher, appears to have been destroyed. And it seems to have been military rather than sectarian destruction.
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The protests in Hong Kong and Ferguson, like so many others, were both characterized by a strong presence of artists. Members from both communities are now rallying to save these creations.
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This week in art news: A vandal was sentenced to five years in prison for punching a hole through a Claude Monet painting, a suit against Larry Gagosian was dismissed, and a Winnie-the-Pooh drawing sets an auction record for an original book illustration.
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Last week during Art Basel, collector Gary Nader unveiled the design for his new Latin American Art Museum (LAAM), ArchDaily reported. When the 90,000-square-foot space opens in Miami in 2016, it will finally give the "capital of Latin America" an exhibition hall worthy of its nickname.