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The artist, AA Bronson, asked the National Portrait Gallery last week that it remove his photograph, Felix, June 5, 1994, which shows the corpse of Mr. Bronson’s partner shortly after he died of AIDS, from the NPG show,…
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Shepard Fairey, the so-called “street artist,” has told the LA Times that he condones the recent destruction of the mural at LA MoCA. “The situation is unfortunate but I understand MOCA’s decision,” Fairey told the LA…
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Regarding the recent National Portrait Gallery fiasco over their removal of David Wojnarowicz’s video, the Warhol Foundation has taken an aggressive stance and threatened the Smithsonian with zero future funding if the NPG…
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Chinese artist Cai Yuan breached the Tate Modern’s security to walk on Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds installation, wearing a T-shirt drawing attention to the difficulty of being an artist. According to The Telegraph,…
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After careful consideration, The Plano Independent School District in Texas has decided against removing a humanities textbook, Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, from its classrooms. The debate began last…
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A New Mexico artist’s work, The Last Pedophile, a 1-inch, 1,100-pound sculpture piece, was impounded by Albuquerque police due to complaints of the sculpture’s title. “It’s a vertical chalk outline of somebody who’s been,…
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Chinese Ai Weiwei alleges he was placed under house arrest by Chinese authorities in order to prevent him from holding a party commemorating the demolition of his newly built million-dollar studio in Shanghai. According…
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