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Chalk Activist Triumphs over Big Bank
LOS ANGELES – Political activist Jeff Olson was acquitted today of vandalism charges brought against him by the city of San Diego in a case that even the mayor called “nonsense prosecution.”
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Chalk Activist Triumphs over Big Bank
LOS ANGELES – Political activist Jeff Olson was acquitted today of vandalism charges brought against him by the city of San Diego in a case that even the mayor called “nonsense prosecution.”
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Play MoMA's Latest Video Game Acquisitions Online
MoMA announced several video game acquisitions this afternoon, marking the ongoing completion of the video game collection launched in November 2012. The new additions are: the Magnavox Odyssey console (1972), Pong (1972), Space Invaders (1978), Asteroids (1979), Tempest (1981), Yar’s Revenge (1982)
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Art Movements
A collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Bronx Museum finishes $1M acquisition campaign, NY State updates laws for nonprofits, Robert Indiana will have his first major US museum retrospective, Dia is selling part of its collection at Sotheby's …
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Senate Expected to Pass Improved Visa Process for Foreign Artists
Americans for the Arts, an arts advocacy nonprofit, announced last night that they have succeeded in securing the inclusion of the Arts Require Timely Service (ARTS) Act in the Obama-endorsed immigration bill now expected to pass the Senate.
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Record Set for Artwork Offered Online Only, $1.98M
There are new signs that collectors are becoming more comfortable with online art sales. Last Friday, June 21, a watercolor by Egon Schiele, “Reclining Woman” (1916), clicked in the highest price yet for an artwork offered in an online-only auction.
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My Two-Minute Interview With Cooper Union's President
I was walking around the East Village this morning, as is my wont, and happened upon a familiar face. The kindly visage in question belonged to not-quite-mediagenic Jamshed Bharucha, president of Cooper Union, "the embattled New York college" (Art in America).
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Egypt's Embattled Culture Industry
To say it's been a bad year for secular culture in Egypt is a special kind of understatement, but a string of developments this month — all linked to President Mohamed Morsi's appointments of several key positions in tourism and culture — have left observers reeling and provoked a series of bold dir
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How to Destroy a James Turrell
NORTH ADAMS, Massachusetts — Everything is bigger in Texas: the roads, the suburbs, the T-bone steaks, the ten-gallon hats, and certainly the sky. The Texas sky seems to go on and on, an uncanny hue of blue, pierced only by the white-hot nexus of the unrelenting sun. Indeed, waxing poetic with refle
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Michigan Attorney General Says Detroit Art Collection Can't Be Sold
The battle over the future of the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection is still only a theoretical one, but that hasn't stopped high-profile people throughout the state from taking sides. The latest entrant into the fray is Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, who says the art cannot be sold to
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Why Is Playboy Erecting a Neon Bunny in Marfa, Texas?
AUSTIN, Texas — In a strange sequence of events, it seems that the Hefner Empire wants — and has recently obtained — a lease on 6,500 square feet of land west of Marfa, Texas, which is best known in the art world as the home of artist Donald Judd's Chinati and Judd Foundations.
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LES Is a-Changin': Controversial Artworks Canned at Arlene's Grocery
Arlene’s Grocery, the popular Lower East Side bar, gallery space, and concert venue, has taken down a show featuring the work of Robert Preston, arguing that the artist's work was too "aggressive" and "literal" for their venue. Preston's pieces, all paintings from his Seven Deadly Sins series, were