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Gaza Artist Killed With Her Children in Israeli Airstrike
The 39-year-old artist had two young boys and worked at a public school.
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Q&A with the Palestinian Artist Lacoste Wanted to Exclude
We caught up with the Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour, who as we reported on Wednesday is the artist that the French luxury apparel label Lacoste wanted to exclude from the 2011 Lacoste Elysée Prize for being "too pro-Palestinian."
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Does Lacoste Hate Palestinians?
A controversy is brewing in Switzerland, where French luxury label Lacoste has attempted to strong arm a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, to exclude Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour from the Lacoste Elysée Prize.
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Bay Area Hypocrisy: No Penance for Otterness, No Palestinian Art for Kids
The Bay Area is full of artistic hypocrisy this month. On one side of the San Francisco Bay, two commissions by artist Tom Otterness are on hold because of a tasteless art video he did in the 1970s, and on the other side of the same bay, a Palestinian children's art show is cancelled because it piss
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Museum Bows to Pressure From Jewish Groups and Cancels Palestinian Children's Art Show
Pressure from some Bay Area Jewish groups and others have pushed the Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) in Oakland, California, to cancel A Child's View from Gaza, which is an exhibition featuring 50 art works by Palestinian children aged 9 to 11.