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On Monday we briefly reported on the confusion surrounding Occupy 38, or "Take Artists Space," one of the most puzzling developments done in the name of Occupy Wall Street. The Arts and Culture working group has released an official statement about Occupy 38.
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On Wednesday morning, 30-year-old artist and rising star Mathieu Lefevre was killed in a hit-and-run on Morgan Avenue in Williamsburg. His death is the fourth cycling fatality in Williamsburg in the past four months.
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Today's protest at the Sotheby's corporate offices on York Avenue was enlivened by dozens of people from #OccupyWallStreet who joined the Sotheby's art handlers in their efforts to get a fair agreement with the auction giant.
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The Warhol Foundation is dissolving it's Warhol Authentification Board, Inc. According to Warhol Foundation president Joel Wachs, the: " … decision was driven by the financial toll the board's operations have taken on the institution has a whole."
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According to the LA Times, Chuck Close, Laddie John Dill and the estate of sculptor Robert Graham are suing the world's largest auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, for royalties they say they are entitled to under the California Resale Royalty Act.
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Last week, Sotheby's art handlers took their fight to London but today they're back in New York and manning the picket lines on York Avenue.
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Other than having a name that sounds like it could be a gay bar in a seedy part of town, Sydney's Cockatoo Island is going to be hosting the largest urban art festival in the southern hemisphere starting November 4 and continuing until to December 11.
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Maybe people are watching too much Law & Order, but the obsession with Vincent van Gogh and his ear, relationship with Paul Gauguin and tortured life are getting a little too much. Now, the latest theory … he was shot by teenage boys from Paris pretending to be American cowboys.
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If until now no bold-faced art world names have jumped into the #OccupyWallStreet ring, Shepard Fairey has officially become the first major artist to throw his artistic support behind the protests by designing the invitation to tomorrow's "The Occupation Party" in Times Square. WNYC's Brigid Bergin
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An exciting find in Blombos Cave east of Cape Town, South Africa, is believed to be the world's oldest art studio.
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Take action now! Occupy Wall Street has issued an EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION in order to stop the city of New York from evicted the protesters from Zuccotti Park under the premise of "cleaning" the park area.
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Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, will now also boast one of the world's most impressive art collections. Forbes reported today that Judge Stanley Ott upheld his ruling that allows the Barnes Foundation to move its estimated $25 billion art collection from the suburb of Merion, Pennsylvania