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Banksy Watch: New Work in LES, Red Hook Work Protected
Another day, another Banksy in New York City, and today's Easter egg popped up on Ludlow Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, while the Banksy in Red Hook has been protected from vandals.
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Five Issues Threatening the Destruction of Cultural Heritage Sites
Yesterday, the World Monuments Fund announced their 2014 World Monuments Watch, launching a two-year advocacy for 67 sites in 41 countries.
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Banksy's Latest Pops Up in Greenpoint, Get$ Covered Up Fa$t
Banksy hasn't been wow'ing street art fans in New York, though he (I'm going to assume it is a "he") is creating a lot of excitement around street art, which is a good thing.
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Starting Next Year, LA's Hammer Museum Will Be Free
A few weeks ago, billionaire art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad announced that his upcoming museum in Los Angeles, The Broad, will offer free admission. Earlier this year, the Dallas Museum of Art switched over to free entry, as well as offering a new free membership plan. And now, continuin
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Kansas Group Targeting Topless Sculpture
Hysterical reactions to "controversial" installations are a fixture of public art, but an ongoing saga in Kansas over a topless and headless female statue elevates the form to an obscene theatrics.
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Get to Know Your Modernist Architecture Neighbors this Weekend
This Saturday, the US chapter of Docomomo, a nonprofit dedicated to "documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement" is hosting Tour Day 2013 across the country.
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Art Movements
The government shutdown's impact on art, looted Egyptian museum objects recovered, Queens Museum sets reopening date, International Photography Hall of Fame finds new home, and more...
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New Banksys Pop Up as Old Ones Are Freshened Up [UPDATED]
It's another day, and another Banksy in New York, as the secretive street artist has revealed a new series in three different locations.
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Another Day, Another #BanksyNY: First Piece Buffed, Audio Guide Down
The new day brought with it a second Banksy, but now the amusing audio guide hotline appears to be down, and overnight the first piece went through a graffiti metamorphosis of its own.
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Emergency Red List of Syrian Cultural Objects at Risk Released
At an event last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) officially released The Emergency Red List of Syrian Cultural Objects at Risk, which outlines the categories of cultural goods most vulnerable to illicit trade during the Syrian war.
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Banksy Surfaces in New York With New Work, Playful Telephone Hotline
Celebrated career criminal Banksy has apparently begun a monthlong residency in New York City as part of an exhibition his website is calling Better Out Than In, "an entire show on the streets of New York."
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Curtains Fall on New York City Opera After 70 Years
After 70 years of soaring voices and outsized emotions, the New York City Opera is readying itself for closure following bankruptcy proceedings, ending weeks of speculation about its fate.