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For better or for worse, museums tend to be behind the times, arbitrating culture from some kind of temporal remove. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is attempting to minimize that gap with a newly announced initiative called Rapid Response Collecting.
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Finnish street artist Sampsa and Egyptian street artist Ganzeer are being labeled as "terrorists" by various Egyptian media outlets, but why?
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Last night's protest action at New York's Guggenheim Museum by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) is the group's fourth intervention and the latest to raise awareness about the labor conditions on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates.
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A blaze erupted around noon GMT at the Glasgow School of Art's historic Mackintosh Building completed in 1909, the Scotsman reported.
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FBI confirms Gardner heist sightings, China museum full of fakes, Bill Viola goes on permanent display at St. Paul's, and more from the week in art news.
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If you needed another reason to wonder why Walmart might be one of the world's most evil companies, then the recent story pitting the retail giant against a family of photographers may fit the bill.
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McNally Jackson, one of New York City's marquee independent bookstores, is venturing into art with a new shop devoted to prints, editions, posters, art and artists' books.
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The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that it has completed the digitization of its entire collection of Rembrandt etchings.
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The International New York Times publishing partner in the United Arab Emirates has declined to print the May 20 edition of the paper over a front-page story on labor abuses on the country's Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi.
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A front-page investigative story published in the New York Times today has confirmed previous allegations of labor abuses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), echoing the findings of the Guardian, Human Rights Watch, and — most recently — the Gulf Labor activist group.
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At a hard-hat tour of the Whitney's Renzo Piano-designed building in downtown Manhattan earlier this month, it was announced that the institution plans to extend a year of museum membership to the project's construction workers.
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Well, it was nice while it lasted. After revising its policy in April to allow photography inside the permanent galleries, the Frick Collection has once again changed course.