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Your Essential Guide to MOCApocalypse 2012
A lot has happened in the week and half since we last gave you an update on the situation at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art. Oh wait, except ... nothing's actually happened.
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NYPD Can't Take Criticism, Censors Legal Mural
Proving that art does still have the power to be controversial, and that the New York Police Department pretty much does whatever it wants, the NYPD dispatched two officers on Tuesday to paint over a mural that it didn't like.
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The Asia Art Archive's Collections Go Online
LOS ANGELES — As the Asian art market grows, so does the need for archiving the growing bodies of work being exhibited across the continent and beyond. Last month, I received word that the Asian Art Archive (AAA), the leading organization working on just that goal, has launched its collection online
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Painter Denyse Thomasos, 47, Dies Unexpectedly
Artist Denyse Thomasos, whose semi-abstract paintings evoke an architecture of floating cities, died suddenly yesterday. The cause was an allergic reaction during a diagnostic medical procedure.
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Are UK Police Cracking Down on Graffiti Artists Ahead of Olympics?
The British blogs and media are buzzing with reports that UK police are visiting the homes of graffiti writers in what appears to be an attempt to scare artists from leaving their mark during the city's Olympic spotlight.
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LA's MOCA Loses the Last of Its Artist Trustees
Artist Ed Ruscha has left the board of LA's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), following the departures last week of John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger and Catherine Opie. The last artist on the board has left the building.
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Met Museum Proves Itself King With Whopping 6.28 M Attendance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 6.28 million people visited the Met during the 2011/12 fiscal year that ended on June 30. Simply, WOW!
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No Room for Old Masters in Berlin
Berlin wants to move a trove of Old Masters paintings to make way for a collection of surrealist art. Jeffrey Hamburger has started a petition in protest.
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Comics Museum Closes Its Doors (But Will Return)
This week, a lesser-known MoCCA — not LA MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) or New York's MOCA, aka the Museum of Chinese in America — abruptly closed its doors. MoCCA stands for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, which until Monday was housed in suite 401 at 594 Broadway, in Nolita.
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Calling All Foreign-Born Digital Artists
Win an exhibition on the Vilcek Foundation's digital art space and $5,000!
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South Carolina Arts Commission Facing Hatchet
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley eliminated the entire budget of her state's Arts Commission in a late-night veto last week. The drastic cut involves two line vetoes out of 81 that Haley delivered on the 2012–13 state budget — one blocking the Arts Commission's $1.9 million in state funding (veto
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UK Plans New Digital Arts Funding Platform
Jeremy Hunt, the UK's Secretary for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, announced plans last week for an intriguing-sounding program called the National Funding Scheme. The scheme will be a digital, primarily mobile, arts philanthropy platform — basically a nation-wide effort to get more people to d