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In advance of the awarding of the Nobel Prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese government severely restricted travel for a group of liberal intellectuals who they fear may have attempted to attend the ceremony. Ai Weiwei was among those banned, though the artist recentl
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If you thought the march of street art into the American museum world was going to be easy, think again. LA's MOCA museum is gearing up for their much trumpeted Art in the Street exhibition that will take place next year and feature lots and lots of street art, but yesterday the Museum that commissi
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The Brooklyn Museum has posted an archive of its 1st Fans Twitter art [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/support/1stfans_twitter_art_feed.php]. The Twitter Art Feed was a benefit for @brooklynmuseum [http://twitter.com/brooklynmuseum]'s 1stfans (formerly @1stfans) members from December 2008 to December
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Two activists were detained by police on Saturday at the National Portrait Gallery after showing David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" on an iPad inside the museum. Both activists were ejected and subsequently banned for life from any Smithsonian Institution facility. D.C. residents Mike Blasens
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Lindsay Pollock has a report [http://lindsaypollock.com/news/bloomberg-picassos-rothkos-signal-return-of-top-sellers-as-vips-cruise-miami-basel/] from this year's Art Basel Miami Beach that gives us some insight into the state of the art market: > Sales echoed what the recent New York auctions had
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If Seven art fair has been getting some buzz because of their "original" approach to bypassing the art fair system and creating their own art fair of sorts, then you should know that Fountain Art Fair was the originator of the out-of-the-box approach to the art fair. Begun by three galleries, McCaig
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About 150 protesters assembled at in the brisk cold outside Transformer's gallery space before marching to the National Portrait Gallery in Chinatown. That's not a small number: More than 100 people standing up for the memory of David Wojnarowicz and the sanctity of the museum as a space free from p
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The National Portrait Gallery has caved under Republican political pressure and removed a potentially “offensive” video work by David Wojnarowicz, a multi-media artist who was felled by AIDS in 1992, from its Hide/Seek exhibition. The exhibition, deemed brave and important by critics, uncovers previ
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Kenny Scharf, druggy painter of 80s fame, has covered a Bowery wall with his psychedelic blobs. This isn't just any wall, though. Previously curated by Deitch Gallery, now The Hole NYC, this wall originally played host a Keith Haring mural and has recently been the site of Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos,
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Christian Marclay's video piece “The Clock,” shown at London's White Cube gallery [http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/cm/] last month, was the runaway hit of the Frieze art fair hullabaloo. From buzz on the blogs to rave reviews in print, Marclay's piece sounded like a must-see. Now it's hitting o
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France's Libération newspaper is reporting that the former electrician of Pablo Picasso claims to have hundreds of works by the modern master from his most important periods (1900-1931). See a slideshow of works here [http://next.liberation.fr/arts/11011160-picasso-un-tresor-redecouvert]. But the BB
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"The only way to stop the city’s blatant and illegal activity is by going for the pocketbook.” — 3x arrested Brooklyn artist Ellis Gallagher for drawing on the sidewalk with chalk [Gothamist [http://gothamist.com/2010/11/26/chalk_artist.php] via Brooklyn Paper [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/3