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Today at 3 pm: writer Lauren O’Neill Butler will address On Kawara’s JULY 4, 1967 as part of 99 Objects. 

On Kawara (1933–2014), JULY 4, 1967, 1967. Acrylic on canvas, 13 ¼ × 17 in. (33.7 × 43.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 2014.150 © On Kawara, Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London

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New book "Artists Unframed" shows iconic artists in a more humanizing light.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/30/artists-unframed-photos_n_7674794.html

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Enter a Virtual Art Gallery on the Dream Planet ‘Whateverland’

The latest virtualized world from the German VR Nerds collective is now taking artwork submissions.

Hop between islands of art galleries in 'Whateverland'. "- we first wanted to make art visible from these completely new dimensions and perspectives that are possible through the medium of virtual reality" - VR Nerds Collective

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I Spent the Night in the Tate Gallery, Listening to the Quiet Sounds of Art Activism

A total of 75 black-clad protesters took part in a 25-hour unsanctioned performance organised by activist art collective, Liberate Tate, last weekend. The aim? To urge the gallery to drop its sponsorship deal with BP, one of the world’s largest oil companies. Ellen Booth, one of the performers,

A group of Art Activists staged a 25 hour unsanctioned performance at Tate to protest their partnership with oil company BP

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Anish Kapoor's Versailles Sculpture Vandalized - artnet News

Anish Kapoor's controversial sculpture "Dirty Corner," which was likened to a vagina, was vandalized by unknown perpetrators on Wednesday.

Controversial sculpture of Anish Kapoor "Dirty Corner" was vandalized on Wednesday in the garden of France's Palace of Versailles. Kapoor's provocation describing the piece as "the queen's vagina" has brought some local's outcry yet vandalism act itself is a clear shame over a freedom of expression in art.