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Banksy's New Work Reflects on Banality of Evil, Benefits Charity [UPDATE 2]
There are three Bankys left this month, and today's work is in the window of the Housing Works thrift shop in Manhattan's Gramercy neighborhood.
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![Coney Island's Banksy Robot, Busy Weekend in Brooklyn [UPDATE 2]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/sized-coney-island-tight-home.jpg)
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Coney Island's Banksy Robot, Busy Weekend in Brooklyn [UPDATE 2]
What a weekend. After Friday night's unveiling of Banksy's new "Reaper" animatronics art performance on Houston Street, two text-based pieces appeared the following days in Brooklyn, and — surprisingly — they were largely left alone by taggers and haters, while today's stencil piece of a spray-can-w
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Banksy's Friday Night Surprise Looks Creepy [UPDATE 3]
Banksy's latest looks spooky.
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Art Movements
The 2013 Power 100 announced, guilty pleas in Kunsthal Rotterdam theft, Met can now charge admission, sculptor Anthony Caro passes away, new developments in Christo's Over the River controversy, and more...
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Deploying Drones for Aerial Photography
It's difficult to appreciate, given the ubiquity afforded by camera phones and low-cost digital cameras, but the ability to photograph our space can be a powerful act.
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The Mysterious Resignation of the Cleveland Museum of Art Director
On Monday, Cleveland Museum of Art director David Franklin abruptly resigned his post, noting in a statement that he needed to spend more time pursuing "research and writing." But according to Cleveland alt-weekly Scene, there's more to the story …
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Banksy's New Piece Is Waiting at a Strip Club for Love [UPDATED]
Today's Banksy is almost too easy to find. The image already reveals that is placed on the side of the Hustler Club on Manhattan's West Side, which is located on Twelfth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets.
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52 Weeks of Art and Human Rights in the Emirates
This week saw the launch of 52 Weeks of Gulf Labor, a yearlong activist project coordinated by Gulflabor, a working group opposed to the treatment of laborers at Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island cultural mega-development.
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Sheriff Orders Removal of Sculptures Deemed "Possible Weapons"
Found-object sculptures that were on view in a government building in Morristown, New Jersey, have been removed, after the local sheriff decided that they were "possible weapons to be used against the public."
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This Botched Chinese Restoration Job Might Be the New Beast Jesus
In what's undoubtedly the worst "restoration" job we've read about since last year's Beast Jesus, a local company in the Chinese city of Chaoyang has destroyed a series of Qing Dynasty frescoes by painting an entirely new scene over them in garish colors.
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Filipino American Museum Launches in New York
When the Filipino American Museum (FAM) opens its first show at Soho's Third Streaming on October 29, one of New York's largest Asian communities will formally attain a museum institution of their own.
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Banksy's Queens Sphinx [UPDATE 3]
New York's wandering street sophist today deposited his latest work, a replica of Egypt's Great Sphinx of Giza, in what appears to be a vacant lot in Queens.