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The arena of copyright is a global morass of collaboration, appropriation, and theft. Rights management is a nightmare for artists and a cash machine for the legal profession, but two recent developments, one in the United States and the other in the European Union, aim, respectively, to expand the
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Hopi masks bought but will be returned, legal battle over Nazi-stolen Pissarro revived, Damien Hirst plans a town, Tenement Museum expanding, giant rubber duck explodes, and more.
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Today's "holy crap!" story is the discovery of two long-lost Peter Sellers films that were salvaged from a trash can.
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Today, Google launched Google Open Gallery, which opens its online exhibition tools to any artist, museum, archive, or gallery.
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An unprecedented survey of the role of the arts in the larger economy, last week's breakdown of the GDP contribution of America's creative industries in 2011 is illuminating and depressing, if not entirely surprising in its conclusions.
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Today is International Museum Mascot Day, and the animals, mummies, random curios, and other collection creatures that represent their respective museums are celebrating on on Twitter with the #MuseumMascot hashtag.
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Barnes Foundation president resigns, Ai Weiwei to take over Alcatraz, an illustrated tribute to Nelson Mandela, convictions in the Bolshoi acid attack, and more.
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The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford and the Vatican Library have some of the richest collections of ancient biblical texts, but most of them are inaccessible to the general public. Now, through a collaborative project, 1.5 million manuscript pages are being digitized for public access o
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Gawker has published a series of Bill Clinton sketches obtained by the prolific political hacker Guccifer, perhaps best known for his leaks of George W. Bush's paintings.
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"I just want a Picasso in my casa, no, my castle," raps Jay Z in his appropriately titled song "Picasso Baby." Jay Z's song most certainly stirs up a desire to own some Picasso art bling, which is becoming increasingly important nowadays for the rich and famous. But is such a thing possible for some
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José Esteban Muñoz, a scholar in the field of queer politics and aesthetics and professor at New York University's Tisch School, has passed away, according to a notice on the University of Minnesota Press website and confirmed to Hyperallergic by his department at NYU.
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Creative Commons recently announced Version 4.0 of their licenses, which enables more anonymity, international translation options, and opportunities to regain rights if they've been inadvertently violated.