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MCA Chicago Gets Another Huge Gift
CHICAGO — For the second time this year, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has received a multi-million dollar gift from one of its philanthropic supporters.
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Dallas Museum of Art Joins New Worldwide Push for Islamic Art
The Dallas Art Museum announced today that it has named Sabiha Al Khemir as its first Senior Advisor of Islamic Art. The move comes at a time when many museums the world over are making a push to support Islamic art's place in the historical canon.
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Hurricane Sandy Report, 3 Days After [UPDATE 17]
Today, we continue our aggregation of Sandy-related news. If you have any information, photos, news, or commentary, please post them in the comments below or email us at tips [at] hyperallergic.com.
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British Museum Maintenance Workers Strike Against Privatization
Roughly 50 maintenance workers and cleaners at the British Museum staged a brief strike this past Monday, the AFP reports, protesting the museum's plans to privatize maintenance work starting next April. The workers are represented by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union and Unite, and bot
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"Cadillac Ranch" Patron Being Painted as Art World Jerry Sandusky
You might have heard of the installation before — "Cadillac Ranch" is a sculpture by artist collective Ant Farm composed of 10 vintage Cadillac cars upended into the desert in the Texas panhandle — but now the artwork is in the press for something much more sinister than grand theft auto. The sculpt
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Pussy Rioters Headed to Possibly Lethal Soviet-Era Prison Camps
Fears have been circulating for a while that two members of protest punk band Pussy Riot could face extremely harsh, possibly life-threatening conditions in the prisons where they're serving their two-year sentences, and those fears now appear to be confirmed.
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Hurricane Sandy Report, 2 Days After [UPDATE 12]
Today, two days after New York was struck by Post-tropical Cyclone Sandy the city's art community continues to assess the damage and what it will mean going forward. We continue our coverage today …
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New York's Art World Assessing Impact of Hurricane Sandy [UPDATE 5]
Last night's major storm, which is currently being called post-tropical cyclone Sandy, delivered a wallop to New York, flooding neighborhoods across the region and shutting off power to large swathes of the metro area, including most of lower Manhattan and huge sections of New Jersey. The storm has
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Aspen Art Museum Keeps Lance Armstrong on Its Board
Apparently, doping doesn't matter so much in the art world. Even though sponsors like Nike, Anheuser-Busch, Oakley, and others have decided to drop Lance Armstrong following his expulsion from the world of cycling, the Aspen Art Museum is keeping the athlete on its board.
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Bushwick's Bogart Salon Recalibrating, Not Closing
Earlier this week, Bushwick Daily reported some sad and surprising news: the Bogart Salon gallery would be closing on October 29. Only it turns out — happily! — this isn't true.
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Nada Art Fair Threatens Galleries over Competing Fairs
The Nada Art Fair has sent a letter to the galleries included in its 2012 Miami fair, threatening that those who have also signed up to participate in the new, competing Untitled Miami fair will not be asked to return to Nada next year, Christian Viveros-Faune, writing at The Art Newspaper, reports.
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A Roy Lichtenstein, Missing for 42 Years, Is Found
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's "Electric Cord" (1961), which mysteriously disappeared in January 1970, has been found.