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Heizer’s rock is ready to roll
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Michael Heizer’s behemoth boulder is due to start its 11-night, 105-mile journey this Tuesday night from a quarry in Riverside County, California, to Lacma, where it will be installed as Levitated Mass behind the Resnick Pavilion extension....
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It’s all in the eyes—and the lips
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The most obvious difference between the Louvre’s original and the Prado’s copy on the Mona Lisa are her eyebrows. In the Madrid version, she has distinct, partially-plucked eyebrows. In the original of the Mona Lisa, there are no...
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Creative Divergents Summer 2012 Showcase - Online exhibition
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$1,000 award. Deadline: June 15, 2012
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Icom publishes “red list” of Egyptian antiquities at risk
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The International Council of Museums (Icom) published an “emergency red list” of Egyptian cultural objects at risk of being illegally traded earlier this month. It presents categories of objects (rather than individual looted pieces) that should not...
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Birmingham’s children are “culture starved”, says tourism report
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Research commissioned by the tourism body Visit Birmingham has branded millions of British children “culture starved” after it found that four in ten children aged five to 12 have never visited an art gallery, while 17% have never been to a museum...
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Banderas takes on Picasso in biopic
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Spanish movie star Antonio Banderas has been signed up to play Picasso according to the Daily Mail. The new biopic, entitled 33 Days, will focus on his relationship with his French muse Dora Maar, and how the Cubist pioneer conceived and created...
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Police raid criminal gang suspected of faking antiquities
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A two-and-a-half-year-long suspected archaeological fraud involving thousands of forged Greek and Etruscan artefacts, a hospital x-ray machine, a philanthropic aristocrat and a sophisticated network of forgers has come to an abrupt end after police...
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