WORLD ART
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Eleven People Face Trial in France for Selling Fake African Artifacts
Eleven people are being tried in a French court after being accused of manufacturing and dealing fake African artifacts. The group allegedly...
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Court Decides Activists Who Glued Themselves to Vermeer Painting Don’t Deserve Jail Time
A Dutch court of appeals has decided that a small group of climate activists who received two month in jail for gluing themselves to Johannes...
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Thomas Heatherwick: The Architect of Our Neoliberal Hell
Years later, it still seems unbelievable. A designer is tapped to build a grand public structure, with a budget of $75 million, as the...
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023, Per Art Basel UBS Report
The global art market navigated a challenging year in 2023. Auction sales were down on both sides of the Atlantic and there was a conspicuous...
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Paris’s Picasso Museum Will Show Work by Françoise Gilot in Permanent Collection Galleries for the First Time
As part of the reinstallation of its permanent collection, the Picasso Museum in Paris will now include a gallery dedicated to the work of...
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Elizabeth C. Babcock to Helm the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum After Previous Founding Director Stepped Down
Starting on June 3, Elizabeth C. Babcock will join the helm of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum as its founding director....
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Police Will Investigate Pro-Palestine Activists’ Defacement of Arthur Balfour Portrait at Cambridge
Police are investigating an incident of vandalism at Cambridge University in which pro-Palestine demonstrators defaced a portrait of the late...
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David Kordansky Gallery Takes on Rising Painter Maia Cruz Palileo
David Kordansky Gallery, which has spaces in Los Angeles and New York, will now represent New York–based artist Maia Cruz Palileo. The gallery...
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Thieves Strip Exhibition of Gold, Françoise Gilot Gets Room at Picasso Museum, Met Workers Urge Museum to Call for Gaza Ceasefire, and More: Morning Links for March 12, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter . THE HEADLINES...
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Archaeologists in Egypt Unearth 12.5-Foot-Tall Top Section of Ramses II Statue
Archaeologists in Egypt recently discovered a 12.5 foot-tall section of a statue of the pharaoh Ramses II. The discovery of the...