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Utopia, Branded: Hotel Chelsea Becomes a Chain
You might say it was bound to happen. And perhaps it was. But now it has happened: the legendary Hotel Chelsea has become a brand. Capitalism spares none.
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East Harlem Subsidized Artist Housing Opens for Applications
A former public school on 99th Street in Harlem redeveloped into artist housing under the auspices of El Barrio's Operation Fight Back has recently begun accepting tenant applications.
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Oldest San Francisco Arts Nonprofit Suspends Curatorial Programs
SAN FRANCISCO — Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco’s oldest alternative arts space, has suspended curatorial programs and halved its staff, KQED reported last week.
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Victoria & Albert Museum Devotes Gallery to Buzzy Objects
For better or for worse, museums tend to be behind the times, arbitrating culture from some kind of temporal remove. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is attempting to minimize that gap with a newly announced initiative called Rapid Response Collecting.
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Two Street Artists and Artist Collective Labeled Terrorists in Egypt
Finnish street artist Sampsa and Egyptian street artist Ganzeer are being labeled as "terrorists" by various Egyptian media outlets, but why?
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Protesters Stage Intervention at Guggenheim's Futurist Exhibition
Last night's protest action at New York's Guggenheim Museum by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) is the group's fourth intervention and the latest to raise awareness about the labor conditions on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates.
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Fire Rages in Glasgow School of Art's Historic Mackintosh Building [Updated]
A blaze erupted around noon GMT at the Glasgow School of Art's historic Mackintosh Building completed in 1909, the Scotsman reported.
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Art Movements
FBI confirms Gardner heist sightings, China museum full of fakes, Bill Viola goes on permanent display at St. Paul's, and more from the week in art news.
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Walmart Goes After Photographer's Widow
If you needed another reason to wonder why Walmart might be one of the world's most evil companies, then the recent story pitting the retail giant against a family of photographers may fit the bill.
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Bookseller McNally Jackson Opens Art Store
McNally Jackson, one of New York City's marquee independent bookstores, is venturing into art with a new shop devoted to prints, editions, posters, art and artists' books.
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Morgan Library Puts Hundreds of Rembrandt Etchings Online
The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that it has completed the digitization of its entire collection of Rembrandt etchings.
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Emirates Censors International New York Times Over Saadiyat Labor Report
The International New York Times publishing partner in the United Arab Emirates has declined to print the May 20 edition of the paper over a front-page story on labor abuses on the country's Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi.