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French government returns looted Egyptian antiquities, Miró full of fakes, Bill Drentell passes away, FAT Architecture calls it quits, and more from the week in art news.
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Anti-Zimmerman Artist Points to eBay's Hypocrisy for Pulling Painting
The artist at the center of the anti-Zimmerman painting controversy on eBay, Michael D'Auntuono, responded to Hyperallergic's questions via email about the online auction site's decision to remove his painting because it violated eBay’s Hateful or Discriminatory policy.
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LA MOCA Debuts Online Comedy Series
Why would a contemporary art museum launch a web comedy series? Well ... why not, I guess?
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Why Did eBay Pull This Artist's Anti-Zimmerman Painting?
On the same day that George Zimmerman's painting raked in over $100,000 on eBay, artist Micheal D'Antuono was told by the same online auction company that his artistic interpretation of the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin confrontation violated eBay's Hateful or Discriminatory policy and was removed
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Scientists to Image Black Hole by Turning Earth into Giant Camera
The problem with trying to take a picture of a black hole is that it consumes everything, even the light around it. Now, a team of scientists is working to make the first image of a black hole by using telescopes around the world to look at its shadowy edge.
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Italian Library Ransacked by Its Own Director
Another day, another depressing story about the deterioration of cultural patrimony in Italy. The subject this time? The Biblioteca dei Girolamini, a 16th-century library in Naples that was systematically looted by its director.
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Pussy Riot Members Go Free [UPDATED]
After the passage of an amnesty bill in the Russian parliament last week, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the two imprisoned members of Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot, have been freed.
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Cariou v. Prince Isn't Over: Orgs Rep'ing 45,000 Creatives File Brief in Support of Cariou
Contrary to what we thought, the art law blog Clancco has found out that the infamous Cariou v. Prince copyright case is far from over. The organizations involved in this new "friend of the court" brief represent roughly 45,000 members and 100 companies in the fields of photography, the graphic arts
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Lines for Kusama's Infinity Room Devolve Into Mobs Outside David Zwirner
Chaos has broken out in front of David Zwirner gallery on West 19th Street, where people have been lining up to see Yayoi Kusama's “Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away,” part of her exhibition that closes tomorrow, since 7 o'clock this morning. A long line has turned i
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London theater ceiling collapse, spacecraft coming to the New Museum, rare Van Gogh painting on display, a winner in the Picasso auction, and more recent art news.
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Two Photographers Emerge from the Shadows with Over 400 Artist Portraits
Few people may know the names of Shunk-Kender, but the pair of photographers behind that hyphenated moniker have captured many of the most famous images of post-war modern and contemporary art in Paris and New York and together they documented many ephemeral events that would've been lost to history
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Christie's Detroit Institute of Arts Appraisal Released
The indefatigable Detroit Free Press once again has the scoop on the latest developments at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and this time it's the release of Christie's appraisal of the museum's collection.