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The New York Times is reporting that Federal agents have raided an Upper East Side art gallery, Helly Nahmad Gallery, as part of an investigation into a gambling operation that included "high-stakes poker games."
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This morning, as Boston mourned yesterday’s tragedy, its major art institutions announced free admission to the public, “a place of respite for our community” in the words of the Museum of Fine Arts.
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In what seems like yet another depressing story of government cuts affecting arts institutions worldwide, the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, Romania, is apparently operating on a shoestring, with no gas, spotty heating, and each office lit by a single bulb.
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With the release this week of his proposed 2014 fiscal year budget, President Obama has followed through on his campaign promise to increase funding for the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities and, in general, to support the arts.
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Tens of thousands of the visitors who mob the Louvre each day drawn by those sirens the slightly smiling Mona Lisa, the amputated beauty the Venus de Milo, and the windswept Winged Victory of Samothrace had their hopes dashed like ships against the rocks by a staff strike in response to pickpocketin
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Since the Dumbo Arts Center was founded in 1997 as the neighborhood's first nonprofit arts organization, the once overlooked industrial segment of Brooklyn in the shadow of the monolithic Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges has seen rising real estate prices and shifting demographics, so that while some
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Leonard A. Lauder has made a major donation of Cubist art that will transform New York's largest museum into a major center for Cubist art. The pledged gift is comprised of 78 works, including 33 works by Pablo Picasso, 17 by Georges Braque, 14 by Juan G
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Some people may be elated at the list of 180 galleries showing at New York's Frieze fair this year — yawn — but we're just really excited by the food options. Today, Frieze announced that they are throwing their own version of what sounds like Williamsburg's Smorgasburg artisanal food fair on Randal
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20-year-old artist Jennifer Pawluck was arrested Wednesday morning at 10:30am after posting a picture of anti-police street art on her Instagram feed a few days before.
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Art supply consolidation alert! Blick Art Materials has acquired Utrecht Art Supplies from private equity firm Topspin Partners LBO for an undisclosed amount.
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One of the ongoing narratives of the art world as of late is the fight over art’s presence on the internet — which company will be the first to make systematized online art sales mainstream? The field of contenders, which has ranged from 20x200 to Paddle8, Artspace, Artsy, VIP Art, and even Fab.com,
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Brazilian police dressed in riot gear stormed an old museum in Rio de Janeiro last week with tear gas and pepper spray in order to evict some 20 indigenous people squatting there. The building, the former site of the Brazilian Indian Museum, is adjacent to the Maracanã stadium and set to be demolish