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A new director for the Museum of Arts and Design, Renzo Piano named senator-for-life in Italy, goodbye to Toomer Labzda, an underground city found at Hadrian's Villa, and more...
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Halcyon Days for Heady Glass: Cue the Bong Renaissance
As marijuana inches toward (partial) legalization across the United States, the once-grubby world of glass pipemaking is seeing an artistic surge, with a number of artists crossing over from the subculture and into the mainstream of glass art.
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden fires research staff, racy painting of Putin and Medvedev seized, more paintings from the studio of G.W. Bush, ancient Libyan necropolis bulldozed, and more...
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The First Code Acquired by Smithsonian's Design Museum Is Released to the World
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is getting onboard with digital acquisitions, this week announcing their first code addition to their collection.
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Abu Dhabi's Guggenheim and Louvre Projects Site of Bloody Labor Clashes
LONDON — At least 40 laborers were hospitalized and 25 arrested on Tuesday evening after a violent brawl erupted between workers on Saadiyat Island, in an eruption allegedly provoked by the deportation of strikers and the hiring of "scab" workers in the aftermath of a strike affecting thousands of l
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New York City Council Members Call for "Cultural Roadmap"
In a statement released earlier this week, New York City Council members Stephen Levin and Jimmy Van Bramer announced their proposal for a referendum to improve cultural spending, a "bill requiring the city to have a cultural plan." By carrying out extensive assessments throughout the five boroughs,
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Out with the Old, In with the New: Museum Will Sell Hopper to Buy Contemporary Art
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) will sell one of its two oil paintings by artist Edward Hopper and use the money raised to increase acquisitions, particularly of contemporary art.
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After Bizarre Email Incident, China Institute Claims They Were "Hacked"
Today, the "friends" of the China Institute, which roughly includes donors, volunteers, and anyone who has ever taken a class at the Upper East Side organization were surprised to receive a scathing email announcing the departure of president Sara McCalpin.
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Hotel Replaces Porn-on-Demand with Art-on-Demand
The owner of a hotel chain in Scandinavia has decided to ditch the pornography channels in all of his properties, and at one, he's replacing the porn with contemporary art.
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Beastie Boys Mom Donates Major Renaissance Painting to Massachusetts Museum
This month, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts announced it has acquired Paolo Veronese’s "Venus Disarming Cupid" (circa 1560), which is believed to be one of the few works by the famed Renaissance master still in private hands.
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Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Charged with Murder, Claims Innocence
Prominent South African artist Zwelethu Mthethwa has been accused of murdering a woman in a suburb of Cape Town and will go on trial starting on Monday. He denies the charge.
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Listen to the Eerie Tune of a Toy Pig That Last Played as the Titanic Sank
Just over a hundred years since it serenaded Titanic survivors huddled in a lifeboat on the icy seas, a little toy pig's music has been resurrected.