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The key to hosting a successful theme party? Start planning early

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Wednesday

Just Stop Oil activists glue their hands to the wall after throwing soup at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery in London earlier this month. Museums and famous artworks have long been the site of public protests. Just Stop Oil/Reuters hide caption

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The Bulldog watch, released by MB&F in March 2020, retails for $100,000 and sold out almost immediately. MB&F hide caption

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What the wild journey of a $100,000 watch can teach us about global markets

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Wednesday

Image from Toiletpaper (December 2012), courtesy of the artists and LACMA Balch Art Research Library. Copyright Toiletpaper magazine (Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari) Toiletpaper hide caption

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Toiletpaper

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In Town Destroyer, the debate over a mural leads to an outpouring of activism and opinions about how to look at art and how to confront racism in America. Fatosh Arabacioglu hide caption

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Fatosh Arabacioglu

A handout photo issued by the group Just Stop Oil shows two protesters who threw soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London on Friday. Just Stop Oil/Just Stop Oil via AP hide caption

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Just Stop Oil/Just Stop Oil via AP

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Invertebrates Winner: The big buzz. South Texas, USA. The world's bees are under threat from habitat loss, pesticides and climate change. With 70% of bee species nesting underground, it is increasingly important that areas of natural soil are left undisturbed. Karine Aigner/Wildlife Photographer of the Year hide caption

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Karine Aigner/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Wednesday

A portrait of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith (left) in 1981 and 16 silk-screened images Andy Warhol later created using the photo as a reference. A federal district court judge found that Warhol's series is "transformative" because it conveys a different message from the original, and thus is fair use. A Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel disagreed. Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States hide caption

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Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

A painting of multicolored dots by artist Damien Hirst burns at the Newport Street Gallery in London on Tuesday as part of his project "The Currency." For it, he released a collection of 10,000 NFTs, each one corresponding to a physical artwork. Buyers could either keep the non-fungible token, in which case the painting would be burned, or keep the painting, in which case they would lose the NFT. Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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The petition calling for the return of the ancient Egyptian works states, "The presence of these artifacts in the British Museum to this day supports past colonial endeavors of cultural violence and deprives Egypt as the country of origin of not only the physical return of these objects, but also of their important role as Egyptian cultural heritage that spans a millennia of rich history." Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption

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