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Weekend Words: Law
In Germany, it was revealed this week, a 1938 law is still on the books that legalized the Nazi seizure of thousands of “degenerate” artworks.
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Assessing the Arab Gulf's Art History
In his critique of the Gulf art boom for the Wall Street Journal late last month, Noah Feldman eagerly took up the cause of Tahrir's political muralists, dubiously trumpeting that this was "the first time in Arab history that the visual arts had a major impact on public consciousness."
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Another Royal Portrait Disaster
You may have thought the Kate Middleton debacle was enough bad royal portrait news for one year, but no, there's more. Behold, a new portrait of the Danish royal family.
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Bringing Collections to Life
OAKLAND, Calif. — Floating around the web right now is The Whale Warehouse, a terrific look behind the scenes of Los Angeles's Natural History Museum. Produced by KPCC Los Angeles's AudioVision, it brings to life the collections in a new way, with a tour of a "warehouse down the street from a meatpa
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Better Art Appreciation Through Brain Stimulation
A new study has found that electronic stimulation to a certain part of the brain could help you appreciate art better. Science!
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Required Reading
This week, Daumier, Art Spiegelman, stolen art, José Clemente Orozco, Batkid, transgender poetry, Chinese censorship, and more.
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Weekend Words: Sell
This week, to keep a date at Christie's, a major painting skipped a major museum retrospective. That museum would be the Guggenheim, and the painting would be Christopher Wool's "Apocalypse Now" (1988): SELL THE HOUSE SELL THE CAR SELL THE KIDS. And sell it did.
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Sacklers Endow Sackler Center Sackler Family Curator
Everything Sackler changes, and everything Sackler stays the same.
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Seeking New Ways to Document and Share Culture
How can we document culture? Two recent articles shed light on different ways to document often unheard or at least less-heard voices and perspectives.
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An Artist's Plan to Get Everyone in Switzerland Paid
A radical plan is afoot in Switzerland. A public referendum is on the way, in which people will vote on the possibility of giving every citizen a fixed monthly income.
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The Comical Side of Science
OAKLAND, Calif. — Science is always painted as a subject diametrically opposed to art, but some of the best scientists have talked about their thinking process as one that's very creative in scope.
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Vanity Fair Names the "Six Greatest Living Artists"
In a bold example of art journalism, Vanity Fair has attempted to answer the question that's been burning a hole in everyone's brain for ages: Who are the six greatest living artists? If you haven't been wondering this, you clearly aren't reading enough Art Review.