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Last Thursday January 13, there was a panel discussion at LA's Fowler Museum titled "How Does Street Art Humanize Cities?" Organized with Zócalo, the event featured curators, artists, and reporters, most of whom were associated in some way with the LA MOCA's upcoming street art exhibition, yet to ev
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Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts has initiated a course for contemporary visual artists to protect themselves and their art projects. It is an introduction to legal issues that is designed to make "legalese comprehensible and manageable."
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The New York Times announced today that the Museum of Modern Art has acquired David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly,” including both the artist-cut 7 minute version and the 13 minute full work. The acquisition pays testament to the work's newfound significance after being censored from the Smithso
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For the first time in more than 25 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will display five of its original Autochromes by Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz for one week only — January 25-30, 2011 — as part of the exhibition Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand.
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This Friday, January 14, Williamsburg art galleries will be open late for art lovers and fans to crawl through the bodacious borough of Brooklyn's hipster-est neighborhood on earth. Dozens of art galleries and spaces will be open from 6-8pm to ensure that you can wander around and discover new talen
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In Fall of 2010, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was requested by government officials to vacate his newly built Shanghai studio so that it could be demolished. The weird thing is that the Shanghai city government were the ones to ask Ai to build the studio. Following a blow-out demolition party on Novembe
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Photographer Thomas Hawk visited the World Erotic Art Museum in South Beach took photos, he claims he didn't see the no photography sign. Now the South Florida institution filed "fradulent" DMCA notice with Flickr and Yahoo, which owns Flickr, has threatened Hawk's entire account with permanent dele
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The art world presents an overwhelming threat to clowns everywhere as Jeff Koons sues San Francisco store Park Life and Toronto creators imm Living for producing and selling balloon dog bookends that look only slightly similar to the famous artist's balloon dog sculptures in that they both look like
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Kriston Capps reports that the iPad protesters previously banned from the Smithsonian are returning to the site of their crimes. This time, artists Michael Blasenstein and Michael Iacovone will stage a fully legal protest by parking a trailer outside the National Portrait Gallery and screening Wojna
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Even if LA MOCA thinks the Blu Mural Censorship controversy is going to go away, it isn't. The institution has not responded to Hyperallergic's requests for comments on the issue or an unedited interview on the topic of the Blu mural censorship. And now, LA Times's Culture Monster reports on the lat
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In the latest of a long series of environmental mishaps that have attended the artist's environmental installations, Christo's “Over the River” project continues to be plagued by worries that the planned piece will harm its surroundings. This time, the concern is that the installation will interrupt
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Two new developments in the Wojnarowicz Censorship case since we last reported on the Hide/Seek show and its problems with government censorship and a Smithsonian Secretary who just can't say sorry … Washington Post's Philip Kenicott is asking for Secretary G. Wayne Clough to resign … collector Jim