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The Drama Is Over: Philadelphia Has Selected Its Harriet Tubman Monument

After a long and initially contentious process, a panel has selected a winner from the five finalist designs for a Tubman memorial to be installed near City Hall. (The mayor is one of many who think that the best option won.) - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Attack Louvre’s Pyramid With Orange Paint

"About a dozen protesters of 'Dernière Rénovation' (Final Renovation) threw balloons filled with paint on the iconic glass-and-metal structure, while another scaled it and doused it with paint." In this case (unusually), they had specific, actionable demands to make of the government. - RTÉ (Ireland)

New Yorker Magazine’s Most-Popular Cartoon Ever Breaks Record For Sale Of A Cartoon

That comic, which has gone on to be the most reprinted in the magazine’s history, proves so enduringly popular that it recently sold at auction for a whopping $175,000, the highest price for a single cartoon on record. - Artnet

Biologist Turns Amateur Art Sleuth And Cracks An Art History Puzzle

“I would love it if someone published a paper about one of the three paintings confirming or refuting my findings, so we could start a high level academic discussion about this." - The Guardian

The Lure Of, And Fight Against, Fake Art

"Sometimes it involves millions of dollars. It could be the plot for a series on Netflix. They falsify the certificates, even using real notary seals and use typewriters with ink from the fraudulent time of certification to recreate them." - El País

Was Roy Lichtenstein’s Art All About Theft?

A "radical leftist" cartoonist weighs in. - Hyperallergic

The Owl Who Got Stuck In A Big Typewriter Eraser

In early October, an injured barred owl was found in the National Gallery's iconic Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. - Washington Post

The Famous ‘Painted Bride’ Mural In Philly Is Being Destroyed

"It took Zagar nine years to complete the 7,000-square-foot mosaic in the 1990s that defined his eclectic style. But today, after five years of fighting to save it, preservationists only have weeks to salvage as many one-of-a-kind tiles as they can." - Hyperallergic

The Caribbean Women Trying To Keep Seed Art Alive

"Practised for centuries in the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, ... seed work began among enslaved African women forcibly brought to the islands" - and there are less than a handful of artists working now. - The Guardian (UK)

AI Isn’t Truly ‘Generative,’ And Firms Are Being Sued For The Artwork They Stole

Er, that is, the very real human work they "scraped." - The Observer (UK)

Right Wing Journalist Nominated To Lead Venice Biennale

Since coming to power last fall, Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and her party the Fratelli d’Italia have been installing right-leaning candidates into leadership positions in the culture sector. - Artnet

Tate Modern Reopens Its Controversial Panoramic Viewing Platform

The rooftop viewing gallery was designed to give panoramic views of the city, and it opened in 2016. It quickly became the subject of controversy after visitors began peering into the glass-walled, luxury apartments opposite and, in some cases, taking invasive snaps for Instagram.  - Artnet

Italy Has Another Leaning Tower, And It Has Scientists Very Worried

"The (Garisenda Tower in Bologna) already leans at an angle of four degrees — only slightly less than the renowned five-degree tilt of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Now, the detection of ‘anomalous oscillations’ has prompted road closures around the structure to allow for detailed monitoring of potential instability." - Euronews

Artforum’s Editor-In-Chief Fired Following Open Letter About Gaza War

"A week after Artforum published a widely criticized open letter calling for Palestinian liberation that didn’t mention the Hamas attacks on Israel, editor-in-chief David Velasco has been fired" by the magazine's owners, Penske Media. - TheWrap

Museum of Censored Art Opens In Barcelona

"The Museu de l’Art Prohibit … aims to explain how censorship works by exhibiting artworks that have been subject to prohibitions (successful or merely attempted), and detailed documentation on how and why administrations, religious or cultural authorities have sought to curtail artistic expression." - MSN (The Telegraph)

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