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Will Oslo Save Its National Gallery?
A group of prominent Norwegian architects who have long opposed the Norway's new national museum building are now speaking out to save the original National Gallery, which dates to 1842.
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Norway Unveils Landscape-Inspired Passports and ID Cards
Norwegians will soon have a wonderful reason to renew their passports. Just weeks after Norway's central bank revealed its new, abstract currency, the National Police Directorate (NPD) announced that Neue Design Studio has won a competition to reimagine the country's travel documents and identity ca
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How Museums Affect the Brain
It seems self-evident that architecture impacts our emotions.
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Smithsonian Plans $2 Billion Overhaul
Leaking roofs. Bad plumbing. Through-the-roof electricity bills. We've all experienced them, and the 168-year-old Smithsonian Institution is no different. This week, it announced a $2 billion dollar plan to bring its museums and gardens into the 21st century.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Money, Money, Money. Over $1 billion was spent on contemporary art this week. Christie's and Sotheby's turned down an interview with NPR for their report on the American Royalties Too Act (A.R.T.), and the world's biggest art collector passed away.
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Making Sense of NYC's $1.5 Billion Art Auction Week
Listen up: $1.5 billion!
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Art Collective Sues German Politician for Libel: "It Is About Freedom of Art"
The German art collective known as the Center for Political Beauty (CPB) doesn't mess around.
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50 Protest Batsheva Dance Company Opening at BAM
Around 50 members of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement gathered at a rally yesterday in response to the premiere performance of Batsheva Dance Company's four-day run of Sadeh21.
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UK Planning Inspector Blocks "Unexceptional" Frank Lloyd Wright House
The construction of the first Frank Lloyd Wright house in the UK has been officially derailed by planning officials who just can’t see what all the fuss over Wright is about, Architect's Journal reported.
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Museum Insiders Behind Massive $250M Turkish Art Heist
A new report in the newspaper Hurriyet has revealed that museum staff participated in a $250 million art heist of 302 works in their own institution between 2005 and 2009.
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New Project to Digitize 10,000 Sci-Fi Zines
To increase access to the fan culture that was integral to the rise of science fiction in the 20th century, the University of Iowa Libraries is digitizing 10,000 fanzines.
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Who Blew Up the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Deir el-Zour?
Fifty days after the destruction of the Armenian Genocide Martyrs' Memorial Church in Deir el-Zour, Robert Fisk has reported it in the Independent, but his article is riddled with peculiarities, mistakes, and historical inconsistencies.