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10 best art books of 2013

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Banksy’s new homage to Occupy

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New Banksys pop up across New York as old ones are scrubbed

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Guerrilla artist trolls Detroit

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(Shutterstock)

Academia’s gender gap persists

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A mural of Oscar Grant in Oakland, Calif. (AP)

Before Trayvon Martin, there was Oscar Grant

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It’s only a little menstrual blood!

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(All photos by the author for Hyperallergic)

Ai Weiwei docks in Venice

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(Via Greatartinuglyrooms.tumblr.com)

“Great Art in Ugly Rooms” Tumblr is pretty much what you’d expect

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A detail of what some art historians believe to be the first European painting of Native Americans. (all images via The History Blog)

First Western painting of Native Americans discovered at the Vatican

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, cubed

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Woman arrested for Instagramming

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(Via Hyperallergic)

Brooklyn muralist immortalizes Internet martyrs

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The artist formerly known as Dubya

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Missing Lichtenstein painting found 42 years later

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Octogenarian restorer: I want royalties!

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A new Os Gemeos painting rises on Boston’s Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway at Dewey Square to coincide with their show at the city’s Institute for Contemporary Art (via Geoff Hargadon’s Instagram)

Boston mural: A “rorschach test for idiots and racists”

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Picasso scandalizes Scotland

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Chuck Close’s self-portrait (date unknown) (vIa neurobonkers.com) and Scott Blake’s self-portrait using his Chuck Close filter (via the artist)

Chuck Close responds to his critic and fan

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