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News may be slowing down about the Sotheby's lock out, but the labor dispute between art handlers of Teamsters Local 814 and the auction giant is dragging into its third month now. Luckily supporters both on and off-line (Occupy Wall Street lent their voice last week) are not shutting up about this
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Next year, Brooklyn's Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods will have a new community center with the worst acronym known to humanity, North Brooklyn’s Town Hall and Community and Cultural Center (NTHCCC). The center will rise in the place of Engine 212, known as the "People's Firehouse," which
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Today, in a ceremony at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, American artist Romare Bearden was honored with set of four "Forever" stamps issued by the US Postal Service.
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We already knew New York is a 24-hr city, but with the acquisition of Christian Marclay's "The Clock" by MoMA, art lovers will have something to watch during every friggin' minute of it.
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"…Chinese press…reported that that a painting, ‘Put Down Your Whip’ by Xu Beihong…which sold last year at auction in Beijing for 14 million dollars, is claimed to have been painted by an art student in the 1980s.Ten former students signed an open letter…stating that the painting had been ‘a class ex
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Following a three year conservation project, the final section of the rare, Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose (c. 1539-1292 BCE) will go on long-term view at the Brooklyn Museum on September 28.
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"The National Park Service said Monday that the Washington Monument will be closed indefinitely and that the 5.8 magnitude earthquake in August had done more damage to the monument than had been previously disclosed." [WashPo [http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/washington-monuments-elevator-damaged
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The Palestinian children's art show that was slated to be exhibited at the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland, California before it was canceled under pressure from right-wing Jewish groups has found a new home nearby. [Mercury News [http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_18971538?IADID]]
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What the hell is that diamond-shaped object floating in the sky? A photographer shot this unidentified object from the New Museum's Sky Room Terrace, according to his testimony on a UFO site.
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Today I walked the picket line with members of Occupy Wall Street who are in their seventh day of protest against big banks and corporations. As rain clouds darkened, a group of protesters began to assemble and lead the way out of Liberty Plaza, with several cops bringing up the line. Things remaine
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Occupy Wall Street and Sotheby's art handlers have joined forces under the banner of fighting for worker's rights and protesting corporate greed. Yesterday, members of Occupy Wall Street disrupted a Sotheby's art auction to show their solidarity with the union art handlers of Teamsters Local 814 who
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"Today is day 5," read a sign in the midst of thousands of people camping out at Liberty Plaza yesterday, steps away from Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange. It's been a week since the Occupy Wall Street protests have gotten underway, and the protesters are not backing down, pledging to con