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What Are We Losing with the Disappearance of LIC's 5 Pointz "Graffiti Museum"?
In September 2013, Long Island City's graffiti museum 5 Pointz will likely be demolished, destroying about two decades worth of aerosol art.
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Dalí Thief Mails It Back to Gallery
What do you do with a stolen drawing by Dalí? Apparently you mail it back.
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LA Museum Drama: MOCA Goes Full Deitch, LACMA Lays Off Staff
LA MOCA has fired Paul Schimmel Paul Schimmel quits LA MOCA? (according to Jeffrey Deitch), LACMA is reducing its hours and cutting staff, and the Getty cut jobs last month. Pull yourself together, LA!
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Artists Remember Pop Art and Soho Pioneer Ivan Karp
A significant figure in the development of Pop Art and the Soho gallery scene, Ivan Karp is dead. He died at his home in Charlotteville, New York, on Thursday, June 27 at the age of 86.
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Surprise! Study Finds US Arts Orgs Overbuilt in the Last 2 Decades
Much has been said and speculated about the US arts building boom in the late '90s/early aughts, with expansions, renovations and new starchitect-designed buildings practically rampant among arts institutions. But what were the actual results and costs of all these projects? Were they successful? Re
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Graffiti Writer "Bombs" Brooklyn Bridge
After a decade of being graffiti free, one legendary spot on the Brooklyn Bridge gets hit.
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Artist Denied Right to Paint in Prison
Yesterday, artist Odd Nerdrum lost his appeal in Norwegian courts this week and, in a strange twist of fate, he will receive an even longer jail sentence than the one he was appealing.
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Hotel Offers Rooms in Exchange for Art
The Chelsea Hotel may no longer be the artistic haven it once was, but artists looking for a friendly place where they can barter artwork for lodging need look no farther than ... Sweden!
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Smile! Yoko Ono's App Will Send It Around The World
Leave it to Yoko Ono to create one of the cheeriest, global participatory art projects with an iPhone.
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Eyebeam's Kickstarter Seeks to Expand their Public Presence
Eyebeam Art + Technology Center has created a Kickstarter project that seeks to expand their public presence in Chelsea through a space that incorporates furniture, coffee shop, bookstore and free wifi.
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Artist Is Charged in Picasso Vandalism Case
The first rule of social networking is that it's very hard to make things private. It's a decent bet that almost everything you post online is in some way accessible by people you don't necessarily want to see it. This leads us the related first rule of art vandalism: if you did it, don't claim it o
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Christo’s Colorado Project Faces "Serious Traffic Review"
Just a few months after the exhibition date of Christo's "Over the River" project was pushed back by a year, Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) officials have announced that the work will be extensively examined for its potential impact on traffic on Highway 50, the central road that runs