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MOSCOW — Protests held outside the Tagansky Court building in Moscow on Wednesday brought out many of Russia's leading cultural figures in a show of support for the jailed members of the feminist anti-Vladimir Putin punk band Pussy Riot, though their presence...
The confronting work of Melbourne based artist Cameron Hayes has sparked outrage in an Aboriginal community after being shown to residents of the community whom Hayes used as inspiration for his work.As a result of the backlash, Hayes, a white non-Aboriginal...
As the Euro Cup kicked off in the Ukraine on Friday, things went south for the country’s cultural freedom, as one of the current Kiev Biennale’s collateral event’s “Apocalypse and Renaissance at the Chocolate House” was torn down at the behest of the...
It's not a good time to be in the art business in Greece. On the heels of a spate of antiquities thefts that have crippled the country's already ailing museums, the market for Greek art has taken a blow. Earlier this week, Sotheby's and one of its specialists...
A legal dispute between the African National Congress (ANC) and Johannesburg's Goodman Gallery over a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma has been settled out of court, the Financial Times reported today. Created by the artist Brett Murray and...
Ousted Tunisian dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family have already been accused of plundering the nation's antiquities, particularly the ancient site of Carthage, for their own personal gain and enjoyment. Now it seems that the family's illicit...
British tourist Andy Fields made quite a stir in April when he claimed that he bought an early sketch by Andy Warhol from a Las Vegas drug addict for $5. The sketch, supposedly made by a 10-year-old Warhol, depicts American...
While artist Richard Prince continues to wage his highly publicized appeal against photographer Patrick Cariou, another dispute over copyright — this one involving the federal government — has reached a milestone ruling. A Federal circuit court decided last...
The radical arts collective Macao's brief occupation of the Palazzo Citterio in Milan came to a swift end early this week after local police raided the area. The police intervention occurred only days after Macao's members first set up in the Palazzo, having...
NEW YORK — It's a case of public art gone horribly awry. Friends and colleagues of Takeshi Miyakawa have taken to Facebook to ask supporters to volunteer their character descriptions of the 50-year-old Japanese artist and...
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