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Tate Will No Longer Accept Donations from the Sackler Family, Setting New Precedent
The major decision comes just days after London's National Portrait Gallery decided to not accept a $1.3 million donation from the Sackler Trust.
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Former National Gallery Art Educators Win Workers Rights Tribunal
The judge ruled that the group should be classified as “workers,” a role which entitles people to more rights than freelance contractors but fewer than full-time “employees.”
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UK Affirms that Photographs of Public Domain Art Are Fair Use
An ongoing dispute with digital cultural heritage is whether high-resolution images of artworks in the public domain have a copyright when the photograph itself is new or improved.
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Empty Vitrines at British Institutions Call for Copyright Reform
Museums and libraries in the United Kingdom are demanding copyright reform by leaving exhibits and display cases conspicuously empty in protest. The institutions are making a stand against a law that prevents them from showing millions of unpublished documents, particularly those dating from World W
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UK Planning Inspector Blocks "Unexceptional" Frank Lloyd Wright House
The construction of the first Frank Lloyd Wright house in the UK has been officially derailed by planning officials who just can’t see what all the fuss over Wright is about, Architect's Journal reported.
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Tax Tips for Artists
T.S. Eliot’s claim that April is the cruelest month feels particularly true during tax season. Assuming you’re an artist in the United States who makes at least $10,000 a year, you may be scrambling to file your return before tomorrow’s deadline.
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2012 London Olympics Causes Artist Rents to Skyrocket
You can’t see out of the east-facing window of artist Dragica Carlin’s London studio, because of all the paintings that are stacked against it. But if you could, you’d be looking straight towards the site of the 2012 Olympic Games, in Hackney, east London. Carlin came to London from Croatia nearly t
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In Latest Sign of Apocalypse, China Lecturing UK Over Web Freedoms
The Chinese Xinhua news agency points out the hypocrisy of the UK PM lecturing the world about web freedom and then talking about curbing his own.