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We've written before about the plague of unpaid internships in the art world, so we were super excited to see that Arts Council England is launching a £15 million ($24 million) program to help pay arts and culture interns across the UK. Called the Creative Employment Programme, the project will supp
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In keeping with Christo's announcement last month that his planned Colorado project, "Over the River," would be indefinitely postponed, federal judge John Kane has ruled that the artist cannot move ahead with the project until a lawsuit attempting to stop it is resolved.
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The economic argument is being used increasingly by arts institutions as they assert their role as economic engines, and New York's Metropolitan Museum is at the forefront of trumpeting its power in the realm of tourism.
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It looks like pressure from directors, actors, and high-profile members of the film community around the world has worked: Syrian filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia, who went missing a few weeks ago, has been freed.
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After 110 years hidden in a tin at the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, researchers have discovered what are believed to be the world's oldest color films. Created by cinematic pioneer Edward Raymond Turner, the films date to 1902 and depict the inventor's children, a girl on a swing, and sold
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The Occupy Wall Street Movement, the protest that popularized the now-ubiquitous term "99 percent, began last year on September 17. The events in Zuccotti Park kicked off an international storm of activism, and though the movement has been less visible as of late, the one-year anniversary is quickly
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Today we take it for granted that we have photographs of pretty much everyone: famous or not, smartphone-owning or not, Instagram-using or not. It's hard to imagine anyone becoming famous without an attendant cache of images to identify them.
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In the latest story of the Syrian government cracking down on artists, independent filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia has gone missing, presumably detained by Syrian authorities.
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The saga of Shepard Fairey vs. the Associated Press finally came to a close today, as the LA-based street artist was sentenced to two years of probation and a $25,000 fine for committing criminal contempt of court. Fairey pled guilty to the charge earlier this year.
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Berlin's famous Tacheles, a sprawling art center housed in a former department store, was effectively shut down this week, as the owner of the building, HSH Nordbank, moves forward with plans to sell it.
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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts must be pretty frustrated. First, they shuttered their authentication board after getting sued by too many collectors, and now they're planning to sell off all of their holdings of Warhol's work to focus entirely on making art-related grants. Collectors
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It has taken almost a decade, but on Saturday, April 13, 2013, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will reopen after a massive renovation that includes a new Asian pavilion and a renovated garden.