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Getty Adds Thousands of Art Historical Images to Growing Digital Library
Getting museum and library archives digitized is one thing; uniting them on a platform that's uniform and accessible is another.
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Brooklyn Book Festival Participants Sign Petition Denouncing Israeli Government Funding
In response to the Israeli consulate's sponsorship of a panel discussion at the Brooklyn Book Festival, Adalah-NY has released an open letter and petition denouncing the funding as a violation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Reward offered for the return of two rare stamps, Met Opera layoffs, criticism of the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Heights redevelopment, and more.
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Getty Foundation Announces New Grants to Conserve Modern Architecture
This week, the first awardees in the new Keeping It Modern grant initiative from the Getty Foundation were announced for 20th-century modernist architecture that requires long-term conservation planning.
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Abu Dhabi Announces Luxury Condo Development Adjacent to Guggenheim Outpost
Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) has unveiled the first residential project on Saadiyat Island, the "cultural district" home to the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, and New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi.
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Seven Artists, Writers, and Musicians Among 2014 MacArthur Fellows
Of this year's 21 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, better known as the 'genius grant,' seven come from the arts.
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Younger Americans More Likely to Read Books, Go to the Library
A new survey by the Pew Research Center has found that the 16–29 demographic in the United States reads books and patronizes libraries at rates higher than those exhibited by adults over 30.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Canada discovered a ship from Sir John Franklin's ill-fated arctic expedition, a Monet painting was found stashed in a suitcase, and a 100-year-old Latin dictionary project reached its final entry, and more.
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Three Arrested, Charged in Koch Plaza Protest at Metropolitan Museum
On Tuesday evening, at the end of an action staged by Occupy Museums at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest the unveiling of the David H. Koch Plaza, three members of The Illuminator were arrested.
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Counter-Competition Seeks Alternatives to Controversial Guggenheim Helsinki
As the official Guggenheim Helsinki design competition drew to a close this week, a rival contest was announced: Next Helsinki.
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In Response to Controversial Funder, Protestors Rechristen Met Museum Plaza
A masked likeness of David H. Koch argued with protestors outside of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday evening. It shouted: “Get away from me! I own you! I own this place! I own a great portion of the resources of the earth!”
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Is Creativity Linked to Mobility?
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil," American author Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote.