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Ringling Museum Will Stay Under Florida State University, for Now
Florida lawmakers dropped Republican Governor Ron DeSantis's highly contested proposal to transfer control of the institution to the New College of Florida.
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Former Ringling Trustees Decry “Catastrophic” Proposal to Transfer Museum
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis wants to hand the institution over to the New College of Florida, which has recently undergone a significant right-wing transformation.
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Digitizing Route Books from the Golden Age of the American Circus
Over 300 route books made by American circuses are being digitized for the first time by Illinois State University, Circus World, and the Ringling Museum of Art.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Banksy stencil rats were destroyed in Melbourne, an art dealer accused his former partners of selling him $30 million worth of fakes, and a philanthropist sued to get the millions she'd donated to a museum back.
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A Visual Escape to Sarasota, Florida's Ringling Museum
I resented Sarasota, Florida when I lived there because no one was young and no art seemed new … Now, I resent New York because nothing seems old … The Ringling Museum in Sarasota has since become my favorite place to escape when I visit Florida …