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A group of Jackson Pollock works may not be authentic—experts are saying that certain pigments in the canvases were not commercially available before the artist’s death in 1956. [The Art Newspaper]
Archeologist Sarah H. Parcak has won the TED Prize for creating satellite technology that combats the looting of ancient sites. [The New York Times]
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz’s “Portrait of an Eye” at Kunsthalle Zürich. [Contemporary Art Daily]
How a dead humpback whale is going to be used to create traditional Qawalangin art. [Alaska Dispatch News]
Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky has been arrested after lighting a Moscow building on fire. In the past, the building had been used by Soviet-era secret police. [The Guardian]
Austrian artist Enst Fuchs has died at the age of 85. [BBC News]
A French artist named Alexandre Ouairy revealed that he has been showing work under the name Tao Hongjing for the past ten years. [The New York Times]
Breitbart goes after Jerry Saltz for an article about a Charles Ray sculpture rejected by the Whitney. [Breitbart]
Here’s a profile of Ellsworth Kelly. [The Guardian]
At LACMA’s fifth annual Art + Film gala, honoring James Turrell and Alejandro G. Iñárritu. [Wall Street Journal]