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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Artifact looting and ancient church destruction in Egypt, the Christie's appraisal of DIA, Old Masters saved in Berlin, 5 Pointz death knell, and more.
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Community-supported agriculture (CSA) has long been a fixture of many of the more enlightened communities in the United States. By selling "shares" of a season's crop ahead of time, the practice generates a predictable income and demand for agricultural products, allowing many smaller-scale farmers
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Samsung's #LiveInTheMoment Instagram photo contest has been mired in controversy since a winning photograph was discovered to be the image of another photographer that was altered by flipping, cropping, and adding a filter.
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Some things are as old as civilization as we know it: agriculture, government, written language, a reverence for cats, and gaming. As further proof of that last one, Turkish archeologists have unearthed what they think are the oldest board game tokens ever found.
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This September 9, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is starting new free early hours in its Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The move is in effect year-round to turn this private space into a public space each morning.
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As old texts are gradually digitized, the number of words whose lineage was previously traceable only to Shakespeare's pen has sharply decreased.