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Norman Rockwell's Family Doesn't Want You to Think He Was Gay
Former New York Times columnist Deborah Solomon's new biography of Norman Rockwell, American Mirror, hints that America's "most beloved artist" may have been a closeted gay man.
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Doubled Dutchman Drubs Dubai in Duplicate Duckie Debacle [UPDATED]
This duck tale is no canard: An Emirates car wash is in hot water after deploying a maritime facsimile of Florentijn Hofman's giant rubber duck — "Rubber Duck" (2009) — as a marketing stunt.
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French Video and Installation Artist Laure Prouvost Wins Turner Prize
French video and installation artist Laure Prouvost has been announced as the winner of the Tate's Turner Prize, given this year in Londonderry, UK.
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A Strozzi goes to LACMA, photojournalist sues AFP and Getty and wins $1.2M, Haring Foundation donates to New Museum, Smithsonian gets $1.8M from Oman, and more.
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Spike Lee Doesn't Do the Right Thing [UPDATED]
When famed film director Spike Lee launched a Kickstarter project for "The Newest Hottest Spike Lee Joint" this past summer, we rolled our eyes. But when Spike Lee hires unpaid interns and steals a designer's work — well, then we feel compelled to say something.
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Detroit Creditors File in Court to Push for DIA Art Sale
In a legal filing today first reported in the Detroit Free Press, a consortium of Detroit creditors aggressively make their case for the sale of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection. The document, dated November 26, charges that emergency manager Kevyn Orr has been insufficiently transparent ab
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Nazi-Era Munich Trove Includes 39 Toulouse-Lautrec Works
Among the 1,406 artworks discovered throughout the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt are 39 pieces by French painter and printmaker Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The works are all drawings and prints.
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LA MOCA hires an interim director, more victims of the fake Abstract Expressionism scandal, new partnership for museum diversity, and more.
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5Pointz Protest Re-buffed
Yesterday's defiant response to Tuesday's 5Pointz whitewashing was rebuffed overnight, as the back-and-forth continues between members of the 5Pointz community and property owners Jerry and David Wolkoff of G&M Realty.
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East Africa Has Its First Major Art Auction
Love them or hate them, auctions often signal a milestone, whether it's for new media art or work from a specific region. Recently, Circle Art Agency, a Kenyan arts organization, hosted the first major art auction in East Africa. With 47 works from 43 artists, the auction was incredibly successful,
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Bill Seeking to Democratize New York City Cultural Funding Gains Steam
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio’s “tale of two cities” mantra doesn’t just apply to voters. New York’s iconic arts institutions have done well for themselves under the Bloomberg administration as smaller groups and individual artists say they have struggled.
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Filipino-American Museum to Host Typhoon Haiyan Benefit
In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan's devastation, the just-launched Filipino-American Museum (FAM) will host a fundraiser this Thursday, November 21, to benefit the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON), an organization coordinating US-based private aid to the Philippines.