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Pussy Riot attacked in Russia, seizures of art in Queens, Lars von Trier film banned in Turkey, and more from the week in art news.
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Sydney Biennale Boycott Grows
Four more artists have joined the boycott of the Biennale of Sydney, and the protest of arts organizations connected to Transfield, a company that manages mandatory offshore detention centers for asylum seekers in Australia, is growing.
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Easing up on Litigation, Getty Images Goes Free for Non-Commercial Use
Getty Images made a remarkable shift this week from blanketing the internet with ominous copyright infringement letters to offering some 35 million of their images for free non-commercial use.
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Tech Boom Brings San Francisco Gallery Diaspora
Months before his death in 2011, Steve Jobs told a crowd gathered for the unveiling of the iPad 2: “It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”
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Basquiat Estate Files Suit Against Christie's
The estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat has filed a complaint in the US District Court in Manhattan over a Christie's online auction comprising contested and unauthenticated works, the New York Times reported.
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Experimental Musician Robert Ashley Dead at 83
Robert Ashley, experimental musician and composer, has died at the age of 83, according to the artist's website. Ashley has long been a force of inspiration in the experimental music community, where he is recognized as a pioneer of electronic and improvised music. Ashley is also included in the 201
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US-China Import Deal Reveals Limits of Arts Diplomacy
Smuggled antiquities have surfaced everywhere, from midtown Manhattan galleries to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. On January 13, an agreement to prevent looted Chinese antiquities from entering the United States was quietly renewed for another five years, though controversy has now emerged over
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'Partisan Review' Digitizes 70-Year Archive
The archives of Partisan Review, the totemic 20th-century journal of politics and the arts, have finally been fully digitized.
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Rag & Boon: Christie's Auctions Basquiat Sweatshirt
This sweatshirt, listed today in a Christie's online auction, was allegedly hand-painted by Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1979 and 1980.
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New York City Schools Fail at Art
New York State public schools administrators aren't taking art seriously, according to a new report filed by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli last Tuesday.
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Guggenheim collection Léger revealed to be a forgery, stolen Amherst art cold case reopened, Gramercy Park Calder heading to Amsterdam, Art Students League continues battle over cantilever, and more.
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Authorities Uncover Stolen Ancient Roman Sarcophagus Lid in New York
The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Loretta E. Lynch, has filed a complaint for the forfeiture of an ancient Roman marble sarcophagus lid featuring a sculpture of a sleeping woman on a couch. The lid was found in a storage facility in Queens and is believed to have been