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Gurlitt will restitute some art, Perry Rubenstein files for bankruptcy, India asks for sculpture repatriation, a new Astoria arts district, and more from the week in art news.
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Guggenheim Spoof Site Targets Abu Dhabi Controversy
A spoof Guggenheim website, globalguggenheim.org, went live this morning with a satirical "Sustainable Design Competition" for the museum's embattled Abu Dhabi branch.
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The Hedge Fund Manager and the Auction House: A Brief Sotheby's Explainer
In October, we noted activist investor Dan Loeb's opening salvo in his battle with Sotheby's: a public letter that sought reforms, sane and otherwise, at the auction house. Within two days of receiving Loeb's screed, Sotheby's adopted what is called a "poison pill" provision. Two days ago, Loeb file
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Delaware Museum Plans Art Sale to Pay Debt
The Delaware Art Museum will sell at least three, possibly four artworks, to raise money to pay off its debt, the News Journal has reported. The move would violate the rules of both the Association of Art Museum Directors and the American Alliance of Museums, likely bringing sanctions on the Delawar
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Artist Faces Prison After Eating Voting Ballot
SAN SALVADOR — It is one week after the general elections in El Salvador that split the winning left party from the right by a margin of 6,300 votes — less than 1% percent of the total — electing ex-guerilla commander Salvador Sánchez Cerén president. Tensions in the country are high, and even more
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Activists Take Protest to the Facade of the Guggenheim Museum [UPDATED]
The OWS Illuminator, that infamous visual symbol of Occupy Wall Street, joined Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (aka G.U.L.F.) yesterday in their fight for workers's rights on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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Scientists Use Artistic Sunsets as Time Capsules of Climate Change
In a study published today, Greek and German researchers have compiled the results of looking at sunsets in 310 works from the Tate and National Gallery in London. The focus is on sunsets because they can potentially show what the climate was like in the past and help improve climate change models f
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Auction Houses Lobby Against Artist Resale Royalty Act
The fight to obtain resale royalties for visual artists may be gaining momentum thanks to the newly introduced American Royalties, Too (ART) Act of 2014, but the major auction houses are determined to stop it.
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Jay Z Disses Drake in Art-Collecting Tête-à-Tête
Yesterday saw the release of a single from Jay Electronica, the second this month from the elusive London-based rapper. This latest song features Jay Z, who deploys his verses to respond to a comment Drake made about his Picasso proclivities in a Rolling Stone profile last month.
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Atlanta Officials Propose Regulating "Public Art" on Private Property
City Councilmembers in Atlanta are proposing an ordinance that would require anyone wishing to display "public art" on their private property to obtain a labyrinthine string of permits and approvals, Creative Loafing has reported.
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Guggenheim Foundation gets sued, artists return to LA MOCA's board, gallery expansions, the world's biggest collaborative mural, and more from the week in art news.
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What Makes an Artist an Artist?
The question of who, exactly, is an artist — what that word means, who defines herself by it — has always been a tricky one. All sorts of surveys define "artist" in their own way and then move on with results, but a new study in the journal Poetics takes up the root question itself.