WORLD ART
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Bernard Arnault, Founder of LVMH and Major Art Collector, Loses $11 B. After Stock Sellout
Bernard Arnault, founder of LVMH, lost some $11.2 billion of his personal fortune after a stock selloff saw LVMH shares fall 5% in Paris...
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Greece Will Recover 351 Looted Antiquities After 17-Year Legal Battle With British Art Dealer Robin Symes
Hundreds of items are being repatriated to Greece after a 17-year legal battle with the liquidated company that belonged to disgraced British...
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Archaeologists Discovered 2,500-Year-Old Ancient Greek Catacombs Using Sub-Atomic Particles
Deep below the bustling city streets of Naples, Italy, researchers used futuristic sounding technology to reveal an ancient Greek tomb that...
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The Best Tech Deals for Artists During Amazon Gaming Week
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What to Know About Keith Haring, a Defining Artist of the 1980s
The subject of a new traveling retrospective opening May 27 at Los Angeles’s The Broad museum , Keith Haring (1958–1990) shot to fame in...
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Heirs of Art Dealer Persecuted by Nazis Claim Sotheby’s Sold Prized Tiepolo with Misleading Provenance
The descendants of a Jewish gallery owner who left behind a prized Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painting during his escape from the Nazis in 1938...
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2,500-Year-Old Pre-Columbian Sculpture Returned to Mexico
A massive stone sculpture known as the “Earth Monster” or “Monster of the Earth” has been returned to Mexico from the United States, the...
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Climate Activists Dye the Trevi Fountain Black in Wake of Devastating Flooding
Eight activists associated with the Italian eco-activism group Ultima Generazione dyed the water in Rome’s Trevi Fountain black using...
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Monumental Sculpture of Black Woman by Tschabalala Self Is Painted White by Vandals in England
A 10-foot-tall sculpture of a seated Black woman by Tschabalala Self was spray-painted white by vandals in England last week, in an incident...
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Police Seeking Thieves After ‘Irreplaceable’ Artifacts Were Stolen from UK Museum
Police are searching for 12 metalworking artifacts from the Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield, UK after they were stolen during a...