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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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Jeff Koons Sued by French Ad Guy for Plagiarism
At what point does artistic appropriation become copyright infringement? A Jeff Koons sculpture has reopened the 50-year-old debate.
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Any Art You Make Can and Will Be Used Against You
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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Brooklyn Gallery Responds to Police Brutality With an Open Call
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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Magazine Calls for Boycott of Major Art Foundation Over Arms-Dealing, Lobbying Ties
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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Significant 13th-Century Complex Bombed in Syria
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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A Scramble to Save Protest Art, from Ferguson to Hong Kong
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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Miami Gets a Latin American Art Museum, at a High Price
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.
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Guerilla Sculpture Critiques Big-Budget Public Art Commission
An anonymous work of protest art appeared on Jackson Avenue in Long Island City on Wednesday morning, but unlike much of the protest art that has been seen on the streets of US cities lately, this one targeted a very local and specific issue: Another work of public art.
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UN Maps Reveal Destruction of Thousands of Cultural Sites Across Syria
Using satellite imagery from 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014, the Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has mapped the intensity of cultural damage to cities across Syria.
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Video Games on Smallpox and Thoreau's Walden Get Government Funding
A 19th-century Philadelphia smallpox epidemic and Henry David Thoreau's transcendental retreat into the woods are the subjects of two video games awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) this Monday.