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“How a legal pad covered in doodles saved Detroit’s art museum.” [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
Jeff Koons is sued for plagiarism again, for an old series that’s given hiim trouble before. [AFT via Artnet News]
“The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is due to reunite Jacob Lawrence’s 60-panel Migration Series, 1940-41, for the first time in 20 years.” [The Art Newspaper]
Gift to Tufts University involves money for an 18-foot bronze statue of the school’s mascot, P.T. Barnum’s elephant Jumbo. [The Wall Street Journal]
The LAPD and the FBI have recovered 9 stolen paintings valued at $10 million. [Los Angeles Times]
Leo Villareal’s LED light installation on San Francisco Bay Bridge could become a permanent installation. [The New York Times]
On a supposed surge in political art following recent police killings of unarmed black men. [The Art Newspaper]
Tate Archive puts 52,000 photographs, letters, sketchbooks, and ephemera relating to 20th century British art online. [The Guardian]