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The Fight for Japan's Modernist Architecture
Tokyo's skyline has been increasingly crowded by construction cranes since Japan's winning bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
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Earthquake-Proofing Michelangelo's Statue of David
After more than 250 small earthquakes shook Italy last week, the Italian Ministry of Culture announced it will spend €200,000 (~$245,000) on an anti-seismic base to secure Michelangelo's statue of David, the Agence France-Presse reported.
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Historic Home Dumps $100 Million Cézanne
The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, a wealthy suburb north of Detroit, sold a Paul Cézanne painting for $100 million last year, the historic home's 2013 tax forms recently revealed.
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Brooklyn Store Under Fire for Native American Headdress Logo
The clothing retailer Scumbags & Superstars, which has a storefront space in Bushwick and an online store, has come under fire for its "disrespectful" appropriation of Native American imagery in its logo and merchandise.
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Tate Digitizes 52,000 Artifacts from the Lives of British Artists
Around 52,000 letters, sketchbooks, photographs, and other ephemera of 20th-century British artists will be accessible online by next summer. The first 6,000 items were revealed this month as part of the Tate Archive.
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Art Movements
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.