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Anarchy in the UK Art Market
All is not well in Albion, where the business of art is apparently getting ever more lugubrious.
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Black-Hooded Protesters Stage Anti-Guantanamo Action at National Museum of American History
On January 11, marking the 12th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, activists from the group Witness Against Torture commandeered the lobby of the National Museum of American History.
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70% of Ancient Tibetan Town Destroyed by Fire
Nearly 300 houses were destroyed in a major fire that destroyed about two thirds of Dukezong in Shangri-La county on Saturday, January 11. The 1,300-year-old city is a popular tourist destination in the southwest Yunnan province is renowned for its ancient Tibetan town of mostly wooden houses with c
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Foundations Offer $330M to Help Save Detroit (and Its Art)
In an unprecedented move, nine local and national foundations have pledged $330 million to help the city of Detroit settle its bankruptcy, the Detroit Free Press reported.
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Algorithm Predicts Literary Success
Computer scientists at Stony Brook University have developed an algorithm that predicts, with an accuracy reaching 84%, the "success" of a novel.
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In Historic Vote, Cooper Union Board Ratifies Tuition for 2014
In an email to the Cooper Union community sent a little after 8pm EST, board of trustees chairman Richard S. Lincer conceded that "tuition remains the only realistic source of new revenue in the near future."
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Art Movements
Renderings released for the MoMA expansion, Castro makes an arts appearance, illegal ivory destroyed in China, groundhogs infest the Crystal Bridges green roof, and more from the week in art news.
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The Astounding Art and Artifacts Museums Didn't Know They Had
Sometimes museums and archives don't know the treasures they already have, collecting dust on some forlorn shelf or hidden away in a forgotten box. Through mislabeling or earlier disorganization, great works of art and history are sometimes lost for years before being "discovered" right inside the m
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MoMA to Demolish American Folk Art Museum Building
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is proceeding with its controversial plans to bulldoze the American Folk Art Museum building, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
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Bad Book News: Libraries Burned in Lebanon, Dismantled in Canada
Arsonists torched a historic and beloved library in Tripoli, while the Canadian government has gutted its science libraries.
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'Independent' Monitor Releases Report on UAE Museums-Related Labor Conditions
Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), chaired by Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahoon Al Nahyan and a coterie of royal relations, has weathered its fair share of bad press connected with Saadiyat Island, a multi-billion dollar art-and-luxury hub on an artificial protrusion in the Persian
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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Pharaonic Tomb
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, Sobekhotep I, the first king of the 13th Dynasty. The tomb was found in Abydos, once a sacred city of Ancient Egypt and now an important archaeological site.