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New British Culture Minister: Museums Will Share Funding Pain
"There will be cuts to the arts and museums. They will not be singled out as easy to cut, but neither will they be overly protected. They will take their share of the pain."...
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Corot Theft Maybe Wasn't? (Charges Dropped)
"A New York woman who sued her sales agent over the disappearance of a $1.4 million Corot painting decided to drop her complaint after concluding a convicted art thief in a mug shot was the artwork's co-owner, her lawyer said."...
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Maybe Fisk Univ. Really Has No Choice But to Sell Its Art
"The endowment of the tiny, historic school in Nashville, which opened its doors to newly freed slaves in 1865, is depleted. Every building on the campus … has been mortgaged. Fisk President Hazel R. O'Leary says that the only asset of real value left is the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern American and European Art."...
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Mexico City's Eli Broad? Carlos Slim to Open Museum
"Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, will soon open a new museum in one of the poshest areas of his native Mexico to house his collection of artwork by French sculptor Auguste Rodin, considered the biggest outside France."...
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Ancien Régime Angry Over Murakami Show at Versailles
"Cultural traditionalists in France are upset that the famed chateau will play host to an installation of [Takashi] Murakami's work … Known for his brightly colored pop creations that pull from the worlds of anime, manga and cartoons, Murakami is a decidedly odd fit for the Baroque castle."...
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We Need To Change The Way We Build University Campus Buildings
"Over the last decade, many universities have invested in eye-catching architecture aimed, he says, at attracting investors and business, as a way of transforming places that should be free-thinking and outside the immediate commercial equation into marketing-driven "brands". Students have become "customers" in business-style machines for teaching; these are expected to serve the economy by slotting graduates neatly into profitable jobs."...
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Controversy: Cape Town Museum Director Takes Down The Gainesboroughs, Puts Up African Art (Oh My)
"For the first time I thought it wasn't really appropriate because it's a kind of colonial English collection and there are many of those around the world in the English colonies. It wasn't really showcasing any aspect of South African culture that was unique to the history of this period. It was a conscious decision to show contemporary work in those spaces."...
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The Problem With Architecture Exhibitions
"[They] fixate on trying to represent buildings that are missing. Photographs, drawings and pretentious wall texts only highlight the fact that yours is a second-hand experience." But this year's Venice Architecture Biennale "is much more about what should happen inside buildings, the pure experience of space."...
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How Our Sense Of Memorials Is Changing
"We've stopped putting great men on pedestals and started commemorating their victims. In the process we are are losing a sense that human history involved leadership and struggle and, yes, sacrifice."...
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California Passes Stolen Art Bill
"California lawmakers gave final approval Monday night to a bill that would extend the time in which people can sue museums to try to recover what they believe are stolen works of art."...
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