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Artist Offers Cage Stay on Airbnb [UPDATED]
You can rent all types of living accommodations on Airbnb: private rooms, shared apartments, floors in houses ... and now, a cage. Courtesy of artist Miao Jiaxin.
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Detroit "grand bargain" signed into law, UNESCO names 26 new World Heritage sites, Chicago gets architecture biennial, Brooklyn Museum appoints first female board chair, and more from the week in art news.
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Pension Fund Buys Popular Bushwick Studio Building
Long-time landlord Venus Knitting Mills has sold its 90-unit studio building at 117 Grattan Street in Bushwick to an investment firm for $20.8 million, New York real estate website The Real Deal reported.
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Museums, Musicians, and Antiques Dealers Resist Harsh New Ivory Restrictions
This spring has seen greater restrictions on the ivory trade in the United States, and while conservation groups and those concerned with the shocking depletion of the elephant and rhinoceros population are enthusiastic about the US Fish and Wildlife Service's stricter ivory rules, others see the se
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Frank Lloyd Wright House Among America's Most Endangered Places
Yesterday the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for the year, an annual call for awareness that it's rallied for 27 years.
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South Carolina Legislature Penalizes Colleges for Teaching Gay-Themed Books
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has approved an item in the state's 2014–15 budget that forces two public colleges to spend a combined nearly $70,000 on teaching the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist papers as punishment for assigning students "gay-themed books," t
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Delaware Art Museum loses accreditation, Zwelethu Mthethwa trial date set, GIFs join Twitter, Kentile Floors sign lights up for the last time, and more from the week in art news.
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As World Cup Takes Spotlight, Brazilian Police Attack Artists and Activists [UPDATED]
Yesterday, the soccer team of World Cup host Brazil played, and tied with, Mexico. But on the same day that Brazilian players were proudly representing their country on the field in the northern city of Fortaleza, some 450 miles south, military police attacked nonviolent protestors in Recife, the co
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UNESCO Issues Caution on Iraq World Heritage Sites
The United Nations issued a warning yesterday on possible danger to Iraqi cultural heritage sites as the insurgent army of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) continued its southward sweep of the country towards Baghdad.
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Phillips Collection Finds Unknown Portrait Beneath a Picasso Painting
The Phillips Collection has discovered an earlier painting by Picasso underneath a 1901 work by the artist, BBC News reported.
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Living Quarters: The Frick Collection Expansion
If you've ever walked down the foyer of the Frick Museum, you've probably paused curiously in front of the roped-off white marble staircase anchoring the hall to your right. It ascends toward the neoclassical museum's second floor, a mysterious realm that has never been open to the public. Now, than
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China deports Tiananmen Meat Square artist, further Detroit Institute of Arts donations, major Cy Twombly donation for the Tate, new chair confirmed for the NEA, and more from the week in art news.