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Is This the World's Oldest Landscape Painting?
The oldest-known landscape painting might have been created in modern-day central Turkey, according to a new study.
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Cartoonists Petition Major Festival Over SodaStream Sponsorship
A slew of notable figures from the world of comics has piled onto the controversy that's erupted over Scarlett Johansson's departure from Oxfam over her relationship with the controversial Israeli carbonation appliance firm SodaStream.
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Parents of the Judd-Climbing Kid Speak
Remember the kid who climbed on the Donald Judd sculpture at the Tate Modern? Well, her parents have taken to the London Evening Standard to set the record straight. They want the world to know that their daughter, Sissi Belle, was only on the sculpture for a matter of seconds and meant no harm — an
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Art Movements
Car bomb damages Cairo museum, foundry owner pleads guilt in Jasper Johns case, Hiroshi Sugimoto opens a museum, and more from the week in art news.
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Obama Loves Art History but Thinks It's (Economically) Useless
Speaking on the floor of a General Electric plant just outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, today, President Obama made some remarks on the state of education and employment in the US, bringing up art history degrees in the process.
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Detroit Institute of Arts Commits $100M to Bailout Fund
The saga of Detroit's bankruptcy negotiations rolls on, and the Detroit Free Press continues to have the scoop on the story. The latest: the Detroit Institute of Arts has pledged to raise $100 million over 20 years to contribute to the city's rescue.
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Eccentric Artists Make Good Art (or So We Think)
We all know the stereotype of artists being a little ... you know, different, but two researchers are now saying that if you're perceived as being eccentric, people will think you make better art.
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City Council Member Calls for Inquiry on Fiscal Improprieties at Queens Library
Queens Library Director Thomas Galante out-earns nearly all senior public officials in New York City, including the mayor and the head of the public transit system, the New York Daily News has reported.
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Forensic Astronomer Pinpoints Monet Sunset
An astrophysicist at Texas State University has pinpointed the exact day and time when Monet observed the sunset that became the subject of his painting "The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset."
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Detroit Bankruptcy Judge Denies Creditors a New Appraisal of DIA
In July, when we covered Peter Schjeldahl's since-retracted stance on selling the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), we noted the legal and logistical challenges of liquidating any part of the collection. Though a lot has transpired since then, there remains a lingering uncertainty about the legal sta
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Art Movements
Le Corbusier vandalized, Philippines wants Imelda Marcos art back, Getty gets Kitchen archives, Michael Graves and John Johansen buildings up for demolition, and more from the week in art news.
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Artist Feuds with London Art Startup Over 'Unauthorized' Prints
Ah, the promise of a new online art platform. So young, so fresh, so full of ideas about the future. And yet, so muddled about the present as to take an artist's work and make prints of it without permission.