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Independent Online
Race, Art, Free Speech: Portrait Of South African President Vandalized
NPR (blog)
A story that had already been controversial, just received another dose of scandal: Two men showed up at an art gallery in South Africa and vandalized a painting of the country's president. How controversial is "The Spear?" President Jacob Zuma and the ...
Art world in a tizz about The SpearIndependent Online
THE BIG READ: Art has the right to be provocativeTimes LIVE
Zuma art defacing condemnediAfrica.com
Citizen -New York Times
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Press-Enterprise
REGION: Art rock exhibit set to open
Press-Enterprise
BY JANET ZIMMERMAN The much-anticipated opening of “Levitated Mass,” the art rock exhibit starring a 340-ton boulder quarried in Jurupa Valley, is set for Sunday, June 24 — and residents of communities the rock passed through on its journey to the Los ...
LA museum will rock out June 24 when artist Heizer's 340-ton boulder artwork ...Washington Post
Levitated Mass LACMA unveiling announcedabc7.com
Knabe Announces Residents to Get Free LACMA AdmissionPatch.com

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Academy of Art University Students Complete Design for NASA
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The students' semester work will be on display at the Academy of Art's annual Spring Show on May 23 from 10am-5pm at the Cannery Building in San Francisco. "At the beginning of the semester, we challenged the students to propose new user interface ...

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HispanicBusiness.com
Warhol artifact among pilfered pieces in Corktown art heist
Detroit Free Press
FBI via Associated Press By ML Elrick and Mark Stryker In a city known more for carjackings than art heists, the FBI is trying to crack a Corktown caper that cost a collector nearly two dozen pieces of valuable art. The FBI says that sometime between ...
Warhol Piece Among High-Priced Art Stolen In DetroitWIBW
FBI: Art worth millions, including a Warhol, stolen from Detroit business ...The Republic
FBI: Artwork worth millions, including a Warhol, goes missing in DetroitThe Detroit News
CBS Local -Petoskey News-Review
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Kansas City Star
Art review | David Ford explores dark themes in brilliant colors
Kansas City Star
By HEATHER LUSTFELDT “David Ford: I Like African Chicken” continues at the Dolphin Gallery, 1600 Liberty St., through June 23. Hours are 9 am-5 pm Tuesday through Friday and noon-5 pm Saturday. For more information, 816-842-4415 or ...


 
Painting by Chile's Matta tops Latin American art sale
Reuters
By Walker Simon | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chilean artist Roberto Matta's "La revolte des contraires" led Christie's Latin American art auction on Tuesday, selling for $5 million and setting a record for the artist viewed as a seminal figure bridging ...

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SEQ rock art at risk
ABC Online
By Candice Marshall Griffith University Chair in Rock Art Research, Professor Paul Tacon, will this week launch the new 'Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit' (PERAHU). The unit is the first of its kind in Australia. "At the moment there is no ...

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