Art
The Proliferation and Politics of Copies During the Renaissance
Copies, Fakes, and Reproductions challenges viewers’ assumptions that “copies” must be “fakes” and therefore “bad.”
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Sacklers and Purdue Pharma Pay $270 Million to Settle Oklahoma Opioid Lawsuit [UPDATED]
The art philanthropist family, though not named in the lawsuit, will contribute $75 million to fund a new addiction treatment and research center at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa.
Art
The Trickery and Silly Kitsch of a Supposedly Haunted Museum in Las Vegas
Zak Bagans’s Haunted Museum serves up one offensive gimmick after another.
In Brief
Visitors to the Grand Canyon Museum May Have Been Exposed to Dangerous Radiation
For 18 years, three buckets of uranium ore sat in a museum storage area close to the galleries.
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World’s Largest Native American Art Forgery Ring Distributed $12M of Fakes
The US government attorney supports 18-month sentences and fines for the accused, but in many ways the damage is done, casting both real and fake Native American artworks into doubt.
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Reanimating Women from Found Photographs
From images of funerals to portraits of women who underwent forced sterilization, Daisy Patton's works allow "the person to come back from death for a moment."
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Ancient Rock Art in Utah Is Being Destroyed by Target Shooters
Rock art is one of the most fragile cultural treasures in the United States and some people are destroying them with their guns.
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Spiral Jetty Has Lease Problems, Just Like Your Sublet
Could the Dia Foundation lose its lease to the most iconic work of land art ever? The Utah Department of Natural Resources recently informed Dia that it had failed to renew its lease on the land that holds Robert Smithson's “Spiral Jetty” (1970) in Rozel Point, Utah.
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A Winter Pilgrimage to Utah's Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s "Spiral Jetty" (1970) is arguably the most famous, least directly experienced work in the Land Art cannon. Most know the work from iconic aerial photographs, some by Smithson’s accompanying text and some by his weird and monotonous film. Built in 1970, the 6,650 tons of black basal