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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.
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Cariou v. Prince Settled Out of Court
A settlement announced yesterday marks the end of the five-year legal saga between photographer Patrick Cariou and appropriation artist Richard Prince, the New York Times reported.
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Collective Withdraws from Manifesta, Theater Director Denies Signature of Support for Putin
An artist collective called Chto Delat has announced its withdrawal from this year's edition of Manifesta, scheduled to take open in St. Petersburg in June, amid growing controversy surrounding the policies of the Russian state, according to a statement posted on the group's Facebook page.
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Greece Privatization Hits Cultural Sites
Last summer, we made the analogy that selling Detroit Institute of Arts masterpieces would be like asking Greece to sell the Parthenon to help cover its debt. Thankfully that hasn't come to pass, but a couple of buildings considered "architectural gems" have been put on the privatization list, the G
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Popular Seattle Graffiti Spot Demolished
TUBS, a longtime graffiti spot in Seattle, was demolished yesterday, MyNorthwest.com reported.
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New secretary for the Smithsonian, allegations against Terry Richardson, Instagram sales, graffiti at the Great Wall of China, and more from the week in art news.
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International Center of Photography Museum Will Close in Midtown [UPDATED]
The Midtown Manhattan museum of the International Center of Photography (ICP) will close in January 2015, Artnet News has reported. That's when the organization's lease, with landlord the Durst Organization, expires, and a new one has not been negotiated.
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Art Market Moved $66 Billion Last Year, Nearing Pre-Recession Levels
International art and antique market sales totaled €47.4 billion ($66 billion) last year, their highest sum since the pre-recession days of 2007, according to the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF)'s annual art market report, released yesterday.
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Elmgreen and Dragset Weigh in on Marfa Madness, Alleged Vandal Responds
Elmgreen and Dragset, the duo behind the recently defaced conceptual storefront "Prada Marfa," have condemned the vandalism in a statement to the Art Newspaper published earlier today. "It is crazy that we have come to a point in our culture where some individuals in their insane egomania, eager to
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Prada Marfa Vandalized [UPDATED]
Over the weekend, vandals defaced Scandinavian artists Elmgreen and Dragset's "Prada Marfa," the simulated Prada storefront that has, since its installation in 2005, brought international attention to a remote stretch of Texas highway.
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Will Houston Demolish Its Iconic 'Art Barn'? [UPDATED]
The city of Houston might lose a 45-year-old artistic landmark. Dubbed “The Art Barn,” the corrugated metal building at Rice University was constructed by arts patrons John and Dominique de Menil over 10 short weeks in 1969 to house the MoMA exhibition Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical A