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More Nazi looted art emerges, Germany announces it will create an independent center for looted art, Picasso tapestry stays up, Nancy Holt, Hudson and Stuart Hall die, and much more.
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Artist Judith Braun Finds Her Work Part of an Olympic Medal Win
I'm a sucker for a feel-good story of an artist who finds his or her work in an unexpected place, so I was delighted when New York–based artist Judith Braun emailed her friends and colleagues earlier today to say she had spotted something she designed in the hands of Sochi Olympic bronze medalist Ke
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MoMA to Preserve Folk Art Museum Façade
Saving face is no longer limited to disgraced public figures — architects and their patrons can also get in on the action. The New York Times is reporting that the Museum of Modern Art intends to preserve the metal panels that make up the façade of the American Folk Art Museum building.
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African Artists Protest "Indentured Servitude" at Korean Museum
African artists hired by a Korean museum have been laboring under conditions "similar to indentured servitude," South Korean newspaper the Hankyoreh reports. Their allegations about the circumstances under which they lived and worked at the museum are appalling.
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An Anthem For Uganda's Oppressed Queer Community
This past December, Uganda's Parliament passed an Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would extend criminalization of homosexuality to life in prison and up to seven years for advocacy work. Nkoyooyo Brian decided to respond with an anthem for the country's LGBTQ community.
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Huntington Acquires Rare Photographs of Early Southern California
Photography was rare in the early days of California urban development, but some pioneer practitioners did get out to the burgeoning bustle of Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Now one collector's passionate focus on photography of 19th-to-mid-20th-century California has culminated in 4,600 images being
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UNESCO pledges support for Cairo museum, George Bellows painting leaves Virginia for London, major Islamic art loan at the Dallas Museum, missing Empire State Building art, and more from the week in art news.
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Celebrated Japanese Composer Reveals Himself as a Fake
The huge news story out of Japan today is that renowned classical music composer composer Mamoru Samuragochi is a fraud. It turns out Samuragochi, who's been hailed as a genius and, because he was deaf, a contemporary Japanese Beethoven, had been hiring someone else to write his compositions for him
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Balthus Exhibition Canceled Amid Accusations of Pedophilia
In response to a public outcry, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, has canceled an exhibition of Polaroid photographs taken by the French-Polish artist Balthus, The Art Newspaper reported.
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Portugal Tries and Fails to Sell Art to Help Pay Debts
Can and should a government sell art to help pay off its debts? That's been the question driving ongoing discussions about Detroit, but it's also being raised across the Atlantic, where 85 works by Joan Miró were withdrawn from a Christie's auction this week.
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Gagosian to Face Fraud Charge Over Sale of Koons Popeye
In a motion disposed on the 31st of January, New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick summarily dismissed all but one of six charges brought against international gallerist Larry Gagosian by the financier Ronald Perelman, Businessweek reported.
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Boycott Group Responds to Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Labor Conditions Report
In a statement released earlier this evening, the Gulf Labor advocacy group has responded to a report on labor conditions at Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island cultural development produced by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) consultancy.