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Spanish Art Hobbyist Sentenced to Four Years in Prison Over Fraud Scheme Involving Works by Munch and Lichtenstein
A Spanish provincial court has sentenced an art collector to four years in prison for forging 15 works by artists including Edvard Munch...
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Israel Search-and-Rescue Team Returns Ancient Book of Esther to Turkey’s Jewish Community
An ancient Jewish text taken from Turkey by Israel’s search-and-rescue team, known as ZAKA, after the recent earthquake, has been...
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Florida Art Dealer Pleads Guilty to Selling Fake Warhol
The Palm Beach art dealer Daniel Elie Bouaziz pleaded guilty yesterday to selling a counterfeit artwork by Andy Warhol , according to recent...
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El Anatsui Selected to Create Monumental Work for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
El Anatsui , the multimedia artist known for his bottle-cap tapestries, will be the next artist to do the Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern...
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MoMA Establishes Just Above Midtown Archive Through Mellon Foundation Grant
The memory of Just Above Midtown , the famed New York art space that launched the careers of numerous Black artists, will remain alive long at...
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Joan Mitchell Foundation Issues Cease And Desist to Louis Vuitton Over Use of Paintings in Handbag Ads
The Joan Mitchell Foundation has accused luxury fashion company Louis Vuitton of reproducing without permission of at least three works by...
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Cambodia Receives Over 70 Rare Gold Artifacts in Deal with Estate of Disagraced Antiquities Dealer
A group of more than 70 gold relics linked to Cambodian royalty that once passed through the hands of disgraced antiquities dealer Douglas A.J....
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2,000-Year-Old Phallic Object May Be the First Known Ancient Roman Sex Toy, New Study Finds
A 2,000-year-old phallic object, found by archaeologists in a ditch among the farthest northern fringes of the Roman Empire in England, maybe be...
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Rubens from Met Trustee’s Collection Expected to Fetch $20 M.
Sotheby’s will sell a painting by Peter Paul Rubens from the collection of a prominent Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee in May, where the...
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Leonardo’s Gravity Studies Revealed, Painter Jesse Treviño Dies at 76, and More: Morning Links for February 21, 2023
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