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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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The Phillips Collection has discovered an earlier painting by Picasso underneath a 1901 work by the artist, BBC News reported.
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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.
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The Museum of Modern Art has acquired the first downloadable app for its collection.
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Last night, artist Robert Raphael's public art work was destroyed by vandals on New York City's Randall's Island park.
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The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum is opening the newly renovated sixth floor of its Eliza G. Radeke building to the public this Friday.
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Over 100 artists and intellectuals — including Judith Butler, Lucy Lippard, Chantal Mouffe, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, and Gayatri Spivak — have signed on to a public letter calling on participants to withdraw from Creative Time's traveling Living as Form exhibition on the grounds that it is current
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The government of Senegal has ordered the closure or cancelation of all exhibitions dealing with queer issues in the 2014 edition of Dak'Art, the 11th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, The Art Newspaper reported.
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Two more artists have joined Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency in withdrawing from the traveling iteration of Creative Time's Living as Form exhibition curated by Nato Thompson, Hyperallergic has learned.
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NYPL closes Reading Room after falling plaster, Gurlitt art in limbo, new leaders for Picasso Museum and Hirshhorn, and more from the week in art news.
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A campaign in the United Kingdom called Paying Artists released a report with a series of recommendations for getting artists paid, an urgency they claim based on their finding that "71% of artists exhibiting in publicly-funded galleries received no fee for their work."