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The saga of Detroit's bankruptcy negotiations rolls on, and the Detroit Free Press continues to have the scoop on the story. The latest: the Detroit Institute of Arts has pledged to raise $100 million over 20 years to contribute to the city's rescue.
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We all know the stereotype of artists being a little ... you know, different, but two researchers are now saying that if you're perceived as being eccentric, people will think you make better art.
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Queens Library Director Thomas Galante out-earns nearly all senior public officials in New York City, including the mayor and the head of the public transit system, the New York Daily News has reported.
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An astrophysicist at Texas State University has pinpointed the exact day and time when Monet observed the sunset that became the subject of his painting "The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset."
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In July, when we covered Peter Schjeldahl's since-retracted stance on selling the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), we noted the legal and logistical challenges of liquidating any part of the collection. Though a lot has transpired since then, there remains a lingering uncertainty about the legal sta
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Le Corbusier vandalized, Philippines wants Imelda Marcos art back, Getty gets Kitchen archives, Michael Graves and John Johansen buildings up for demolition, and more from the week in art news.
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Ah, the promise of a new online art platform. So young, so fresh, so full of ideas about the future. And yet, so muddled about the present as to take an artist's work and make prints of it without permission.
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When you look at a painting and feel that somehow it was made just for a person like you, it might actually be true. New neuroscience research shows that deep feeling of personal resonance from some works of art is linked to your brain's sense of self.
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Following closely in the digital footsteps of the University of California Press, the Getty Center in Los Angeles yesterday made 250 of its art books freely available online.
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When it emerged a little over a week ago that Rizzoli's iconic 57th Street store was to be demolished to make way for luxury towers, the inevitable nostalgia was almost immediately tempered by calls for the preservation of the historic structure.
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Stories of Italy struggling to save its cultural heritage amid governmental dysfunction and a lack of funds are commonplace these days. But tales of the Italians getting creative with their efforts have been springing up too, and a piece from NPR yesterday points to another example: a program called
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The Wellcome Library in London announced this week that they're releasing more than 100,000 high-resolution images online for Creative Commons use. While their digital resource joins those of other high-profile institutions like the Getty, the Wellcome's archive is especially exciting because it con