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The start of a new year means new entries into the public domain. Today is Public Domain Day, and as we did in 2012 and 2013, we're taking a look at the artistic additions.
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A work on view in Socrates Sculpture Park's Emerging Artist Fellowship exhibition has been surrounded by a tall wood fence after some Queens residents complained that it was lewd and inappropriate, the New York Times reports.
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Antiques Roadshow has done it again! The British TV program has uncovered an exceptional art find: an original portrait by Anthony van Dyck.
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The Italian government has unveiled a master plan for attracting foreign investment, and for some reason, it includes a tax rebate for people who buy books!
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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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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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Why would a contemporary art museum launch a web comedy series? Well ... why not, I guess?
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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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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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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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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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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