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Real Estate Company Will Relocate Galleries in Brooklyn's Dumbo Neighborhood
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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Will the Dutch Pay to Fix Bernini Fountain Trashed by Soccer Hooligans?
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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ISIS Destroys Mosul Museum Collection and Ancient Assyrian Statues [UPDATED]
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.
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2014 Was a Terrible Year for Artistic Freedom
There have been 237 confirmed violations against artistic freedom around the world in 2014, according to a new report by FreeMuse.
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A Snapshot of the 2015 World Press Photo Winners
The World Press Photo Contest 2015, this year culling from 97,912 images from 5,692 photographers representing 131 countries, announced its winners on February 12.
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8,000 Books and Manuscripts Lost After ISIS Bombs Mosul Library
On Sunday night, more than 8,000 books and manuscripts were destroyed after ISIS militants bombed Mosul's Central Library.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: Cops don't care for anti-cop mural, misattribution embarrasses Toronto art detectives, and an ice sculpture smasher is on the loose.
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Dutch Soccer Hooligans Damage Historic Bernini Fountain in Rome
Dutch soccer fans wreaked havoc on Rome over the past two days, damaging a 17th-century fountain designed by Bernini and leaving the city's historic center strewn with trash.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: The sale of Ai Weiwei's gold-plated zodiac sculptures sets a new auction record for the artist, an artist charged with robbing a bank may get a museum exhibition, and Manhattan's so-called "Flower District" is the new Chelsea ... apparently.
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New Tally Shows Sexism Alive and Well at Top NYC Art Galleries
Curator Maura Reilly posted an image of compiled gallery gender statistics on Facebook today, a "report card" by anonymous feminist art collective Pussy Galore showing the percentages of women represented by some of the top art galleries in New York City.
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Artist Ticked Off at Watchmaker's Unauthorized Use of His Work
The Saudi artist Ahmed Mater is suing watchmaker Swatch for using one of his works to sell a luxury timepiece.
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UN Security Council Takes Aim at ISIS Antiquities Trafficking
Last week the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution to curb the trade of looted antiquities from Iraq and Syria. UN Security Council Resolution 2199 prohibits the trade of artifacts illegally removed from Syria since 2011 and Iraq since 1990.