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Paul McCartney Says Kanye Reminds Him of Andy Warhol | Last Week in Art
Also in art news, a Harry Potter exhibition, and two men caught trying to steal a Banksy copy.
Shia LaBeouf Wants You to Pick Him Up: Last Week in Art
LaBeouf, Rönkkö, & Turner are touring the US with strangers for their new project #TAKEMEANYWHERE.
Smithsonian: No, We Did Not Try to Buy the Gun that Killed Trayvon Martin
George Zimmerman is auctioning the handgun he used to shoot Trayvon Martin in February 2012, and says the Smithsonian was interested.
These Polar Bears Are Pooping Glitter, For Science
Scientists feed glitter to animals to mark their poop for study.
National Portrait Gallery Hangs House of Cards' Frank Underwood
Kevin Spacey spent 16 hours posing as the fictional president so artist Jonathan Yeo could capture this piercing portrait.
These 18th Century Native Tools Are Being 3D Scanned, Printed and Used Again
Artist Tania Larsson used modern replication techniques to recreate traditional animal hide tanning artifacts in the Smithsonian's collection.
Artist Maira Kalman Compresses Time at the Cooper Hewitt Museum
The 'New Yorker' artist and illustrator curates a show of objects including Lincoln's pall and pocket watch and Toscanini's "antifascist" pants.
Leading Scientists Tell the Nation's Museums to Sever Ties with the Koch Brothers
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History received a $15 million donation from David Koch — and one of its exhibits omits human-caused climate change, says the museum's former president.
Going Deep with One of Canada’s Most Extreme Young Cavers
Nicholaus Vieira has spent nearly two-thirds of the past several years underground.
This Conveyor Belt Digitizes Museum Artifacts in Seconds
The Smithsonian built an assembly line for historical documents that can digitize roughly 3,500 things each day.
Know Your Hashtag: It's #MuseumSelfie Day
Follow the #ArtSelfie's cousin, the #MuseumSelfie, through the art institutions of the world.
Barack Obama Gets the First 3D-Printed Presidential Portrait
Here's how the Smithsonian 3D-scanned and printed the POTUS.