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Museum Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Native American Artifacts from Collection
A worker at the Museum of the Plains Indian on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana was sentenced for stealing a cache of cultural...
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‘Paint,’ Starring Owen Wilson as a Bob Ross Knockoff, Is a Regressive Flop
In Brit McAdams’s new film Paint , Owen Wilson plays Carl Nargle, a Bob Ross knockoff with the same cloud of hair, the same whispery way...
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Picasso Gets Reassessed by Artists, Whistler’s Mother Returns to Philadelphia, and More: Morning Links from April 7, 2023
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Tokyo Gendai Lines Up 79 Exhibitors for Inaugural Edition in July
Japan’s newest art fair Tokyo Gendai has announced the 79 galleries that will participate in its first edition, which is scheduled to run July...
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In Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum’s 20-Year Makeover Ends on a Subtle Note
In the grand scheme of big-budget, Southern California museum transformations—on the order of Peter Zumthor’s forthcoming LACMA building, for...
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Why Do Pace, Gagosian, and the Other Mega-Galleries Keep Taking on So Many Artists?
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Steve McQueen’s Latest Gets Raves in London, UNESCO Pledges Support for Ukraine, and More: Morning Links for April 6, 2023
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Why Was Picasso Considered a ‘Danger’ to France? A New Book Surveys a Rarely Seen Side of the Artist’s Life
On June 18, 1901, Pablo Picasso started taking on a new identity—without ever realizing he had done so. He had begun the process of becoming...
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$23 M. Worth of Art by Yayoi Kusama Sells in a Single Sotheby’s Auction
A group of five works by Yayoi Kusama produced within the last 20 years sold on Wednesday for $22.9 million during a Sotheby’s evening sale in...
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Florida Department of Education Declares ‘Artistic Value’ of Michelangelo’s David Amid Controversy
Call it the new epic of David : Michelangelo’s marble man is once again in the headlines, as the Florida Department of Education declares the...