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US Copyright Office Says Animal Authors Aren't Protected by Copyright
Earlier this month I wrote here that it would be very difficult to argue that a monkey could create a copyrightable work. Seems I was right.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Corcoran merger approved by judge, Soviet monument vandalized, and over 1000 first-pressings of the Beatle's "White Album" go on display in Liverpool.
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LACMA Is the First Museum to Join Snapchat
Social media has become a staple of museum communications plans, so we weren't surprised to learn that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art became the first museum to join the Venice Beach–based social network last month.
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Man Vandalizes Jeff Koons Retrospective [UPDATED]
A man briefly disrupted the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum this afternoon, splashing red paint against a wall and signing his name.
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Brooklyn Gets a Neighborhood-Centric Biennial
Yesterday brought the news that Brooklyn is getting an art biennial.
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Olafur Eliasson Creates a Riverbed in a Museum
Today, Riverbed, Olafur Eliasson's first solo exhibition at Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, fills the museum's South Wing with dirt and rocks of all sizes, complete with a narrow, meandering trench of water, to transform the space into a craggy landscape.
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Yarn Artist Tries to Save Ocean, May Have Damaged It Instead
A New York–based artist trying to raise awareness about the ocean’s health is being accused of damaging it. Agata Oleksiak, the yarn artist better-known as Olek, traveled to Cancun earlier this month for an installation highlighting the ocean’s declining shark population, according to La Jornada.
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Is the Push for Better Embassy Design Putting People at Risk?
Some politicians are concerned that the new initiative to build better-designed United States embassies isn't just expensive, it's putting employees in danger.
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Art Movements
Chapman Brothers censored in Rome, selfie concerns for London's National Gallery, a lost trove of African art in Missouri, and more from the week in art news.
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Street Artists Sue Terry Gilliam for Copyright Infringement
Three street artists have filed a lawsuit against Terry Gilliam, alleging that the director "misappropriated" their copyrighted collaborative work in his upcoming film The Zero Theorem.
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University of Chicago Whitewashes Commissioned Mural, Artists Claim Censorship
The University of Chicago whitewashed a mural created by visiting artists to the school without consulting the artists or the organizer of their visit. The school says the mural was painted over in response to complaints from local residents in the neighborhood where it was painted, but the artists
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Marfa's Art World Gentrification Is Pushing Out Long-Time Residents
After Donald Judd moved to Marfa, Texas in 1971, he quickly transformed the cow-town into the art world’s desert outpost, much to the chagrin of some locals.