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LACMA Will Build A New Museum On Top of Its Old One

by Corinna Kirsch on May 1, 2013
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Museums can’t buy a new Louis Vuitton bag every time they want to show off their wealth so instead, they display bling by hiring big-name architects to create new and shiny, glass-filled galleries. LACMA will be joining this popularity game with a planned $650 million expansion by the Pritzker prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor. $450 will be allotted for construction with the remaining $200 million set aside for administrative expenses and contingency.

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George W. Bush Learned to Paint on an iPad

by Corinna Kirsch on April 26, 2013
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People are not tired of hearing about Painter George W. Bush. In an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition about the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, NPR correspondent David Greene strayed from politics to ask a burning question: How did the 43rd president start painting? The art portion of the interview starts at the 3:07 mark, but for those who prefer to read it about it, we’ve also transcribed the interview for you.

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Appeal Finds Fair Use In Richard Prince’s “Canal Zone” Series

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on April 25, 2013
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Postmodernism is having the best day ever. It’s been just over a year since a New York District court dealt a major blow to Richard Prince, finding his Canal Zone series guilty of violating the copyright in Panamanian landscape photographs and Rastafarian portraits by Patrick Cariou. Not only was Prince found guilty, but the court ordered all unsold Canal Zone artworks and catalogs sent to Cariou so that they could be destroyed, sold, or disposed of as he saw fit. Thankfully, today sees a win for art: the case’s defendants won an appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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The Day That Shook Cooper Union

by Corinna Kirsch on April 24, 2013
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For the first time in the school’s 100-year-plus history, undergraduate students will be required to pay tuition. Students are protesting, and this time, the Cooper Union administration is taking steps to prevent large-scale protests like the lock-ins that occurred last fall.

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Unions, City Council, Congresswoman Protest Frieze

by Whitney Kimball on April 19, 2013
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The Frieze Art Fair has provoked a number of union leaders and government officials for outsourcing its labor, as it vies for world’s largest tent. Frieze denies any involvement with a labor dispute.

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Deutsche Bank Opens a Kunsthalle in the Former Guggenheim

by Corinna Kirsch on April 18, 2013
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This week, Deutsche Bank, the former partner with the Guggenheim, has announced new plans for Berlin’s former Guggenheim building: they’ve turned the former museum into another museum, KunstHalle by Deutsche Bank.

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MOCA Board Delivers $75 Million in Commitments

by Corinna Kirsch on April 18, 2013
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We don’t know what finally threw the board into action—public pressure hadn’t yielded results previously, so it’s unclear why or if that became a factor—but something has transformed these members into a functional fundraising team.

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Industry City Forces Artists to Move Out of Their Sunset Park Studios By the End of Month

by Corinna Kirsch on April 11, 2013
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Continuing the Sunset Park saga brought up by Paddy Johnson earlier this week, we learn the real reason why rents are going up and artists are getting kicked to the curb.

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Major Changes are Afoot at the Corcoran

by Corinna Kirsch on April 4, 2013
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design is partnering with the University of Maryland and the National Gallery of Art. Details remain sparse, but the two separate arrangements are said to provide “significant cost savings” for the museum and school.

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The Tree That’s “Not About Gay Marriage” Gets Removed

by Corinna Kirsch on March 29, 2013
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The Menil has formally announced that The Art Guys’ controversial artwork “The Art Guys Marry a Plant” has been approved for de-accession. The Houston museum has rid itself of a troublesome artwork, which for years has been subject to vandalism and criticism as an emblem of gay marriage.

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