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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's "Electric Cord" (1961), which mysteriously disappeared in January 1970, has been found.
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A proposal for an amendment that would tax art worth over $65,175 ran into immediate controversy in France from museums and cultural officials. The government is now backing far away from the change in the tax code, which has the potential to discourage donations of art to institutions, the Sun Dail
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According to a brief that BNO News translated from the Dutch police, seven works of art were stolen from the Kunsthal Rotterdam in Holland this morning. The massive art heist includes pieces by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, and Lucian Freud, among others.
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This week New York's East Village went from having only two tiny historic districts (about a block long each) and a short list of individually landmarked sites to a much larger, newly approved historic district that covers a lot of ground, from the Bowery to Avenue A and from St. Mark's Place down t