June, 2024

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Victory without damage: ‘Just Stop Oil’s climate activism is one of the most successful disobedience campaigns ever’

The Art Newspaper

The climate catastrophe has been brought to the forefront of the public mind without causing serious harm to the targeted works, says John Paul Stonard

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New Era for American Ceramics

Maine Antique Digest

Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland Photos courtesy Crocker Farm “This was our third-highest-grossing sale to date,” stated Mark Zipp of Crocker Farm following the family operation’s spring sale, which made $1,753,470 (including buyers’ premiums). There were 525 registered bidders for the spring auction.

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Donate Items for the NDRFA Silent Auction

Society of American Archivists

June 5, 2024 —The SAA Preservation Section invites you to contribute an item or bundle of items for the Silent Auction to be held on Thursday and Friday, August 15 and 16 , at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2024 at the Hilton Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The Section is seeking items from either repositories or regions that you feel might be interesting to others—and handcrafted items are especially popular!

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis vetoes $32m in state arts funding

The Art Newspaper

Museums and other cultural institutions will lose out on millions in promised grants that were originally in the state budget before it was sent to DeSantis to sign

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Operators of New York auction house charged with illegal sales of ivory and rhino horn artefacts

The Art Newspaper

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has charged the owners of Merces Gallery with selling prohibited animal products online

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Germany returns looted antiquities in Berlin’s Altes Museum to Italy

The Art Newspaper

As a “thank you” gesture, Italy is reciprocating with loans from Paestum and Naples

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Staff at the American Folk Art Museum vote unanimously to form a union

The Art Newspaper

The institution’s new union, formed under UAW Local 2110, will represent workers across departments including curatorial, information technology, retail and more

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Former Vatican employee arrested for allegedly trying to sell Bernini manuscript

The Art Newspaper

The 18-page document had previously disappeared from the Holy See's official archive

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Two eco-activists arrested after Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder

The Art Newspaper

The ancient site remains open as curators investigate the damage

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Art of the Ice Age has a lot to teach us—it’s time the British Museum dedicated a gallery to it

The Art Newspaper

The museum is only one of two institutions in the world to see Ice Age art as part of human cultural endeavour, but it needs a proper space to explain and explore this

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‘Art gives you something to hold on to’: Dutch museum launches dementia-friendly programme

The Art Newspaper

A series of events will use the museum’s collection to spark memories and emotions

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Digital deluge: how will Art Basel respond to a surge of digital-art initiatives in Switzerland?

The Art Newspaper

The country is flexing its crypto-friendly credentials, while an art fair dedicated to all things digital is making its debut this week

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Stedelijk Museum restitutes Matisse Odalisque to Jewish arts patrons’ heirs

The Art Newspaper

Albert Stern, the former owner, sold the painting “out of necessity” in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, the Dutch Restitutions Committee says

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A piece of the action: museum partnership in New York invites visitors to take home fragments of digital artworks

The Art Newspaper

The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the Tezos Foundation have teamed up to offer the public a chance to acquire—for no cost—parts of works projected onto a screen in the lobby

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‘We are not seeing the picture Rubens intended’: conservation reveals drastic changes made to acclaimed Judgement of Paris

The Art Newspaper

More than a year of meticulous research and work has led to the painting being glowingly restored—while revealing amendments by an unknown artist that “changed the narrative completely”

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‘It must stop!’: French culture minister pursuing new law to deter art activists

The Art Newspaper

Rachida Dati tweeted about implementing a penal policy to combat the vandalism of works of art following an attack on a Monet masterpiece

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More than 80% of young, wealthy Americans want to collect art, survey finds

The Art Newspaper

Bank of America surveyed more than 1,000 US citizens with more than $3m in assets for their poll of high-net-worth individuals

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As winner of renamed ABS Digital Art Prize is announced, have we reached a turning point for conversations around NFTs and culture?

The Art Newspaper

Geneva-based RVig, who was awarded the prize for a piece inspired by Baudelaire, is hoping for a more nuanced understanding of what NFTs bring to the art world

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Germany slashes VAT on art sales to 7%

The Art Newspaper

The reduction, which comes into effect next year, meets long-standing demands from German dealers

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Two (or more) into one: Urs Fischer invites owners of his digital sculptures to have them remade into a new work

The Art Newspaper

The maverick artist is working with 1OF1, collectors of high-level digital art, to offer owners of his "CHAOS" video sculpture series the chance to have them "fused" into new animations

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Salvator Mundi documentary The Lost Leonardo to become a television series starring Julianne Moore

The Art Newspaper

Moore, who is also an executive producer on the series, will star as art restorer Dianne Modestini

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Bührle Foundation’s provenance research is inadequate, report finds

The Art Newspaper

The report by Raphael Gross calls for more research and details how Jewish owners are omitted from the published provenance

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Christie's hit with class action lawsuit over exposure of clients' personal data in cyberattack

The Art Newspaper

The complaint, filed on 3 June by a Dallas-based customer, is the latest problem for the auction house following a major cyberattack

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A canny couple: Amsterdam’s former mayor and his wife identified as sitters in Frans Hals portraits

The Art Newspaper

Fresh research has revealed how the prestigious pair seized the moment to ensure their likeness was painted by the great Dutch artist

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British Museum opens new storage and research facility

The Art Newspaper

Known as BM_ARC, the site in Berkshire houses around 1.

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MFA Houston can keep Bernardo Bellotto painting seized by the Nazis, appeals court rules

The Art Newspaper

The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War

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Anya Gallaccio wins commission for London’s first ever HIV/Aids memorial

The Art Newspaper

The winning proposal features a tree trunk from which rings have been extracted and displayed nearby

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Mega museum planned for vast former hospital in Naples

The Art Newspaper

Albergo dei Poveri renovation is the latest stage of the Italian city’s cultural renaissance

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Monet to go on sale after Kunsthaus Zurich reaches settlement with Jewish heirs

The Art Newspaper

The collector and textiles entrepreneur Carl Sachs sold the painting after fleeing to Switzerland from Nazi Germany in 1939

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Tate director Maria Balshaw criticises British Museum’s sponsorship deal with BP

The Art Newspaper

In an interview in the Observer newspaper, Balshaw also discussed the controversy around Tate Britain's Hogarth show, which one art critic described as "wokeish drivel"

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Artur Snitkus, Ukrainian artist and musician, killed in combat near Donetsk, aged 36

The Art Newspaper

In tributes, friends and colleagues described him as “icon of the Ukrainian queer underground” and “a holy man”

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Does the De la Cruz collection sale mark the end of an era?

The Art Newspaper

Reduced value, mixed results dent idea of contemporary art as investable asset

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We must survive: Yokohama Triennale entwines stories of darkness and resistance

The Art Newspaper

“Even though we are confronted with situations of hopelessness, resilience is our kind of hope,” say Chinese curators Carol Yinghua Lu and Liu Ding

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Artefacts discovered down well shed light on ancient Roman rituals

The Art Newspaper

The objects, found within the Ostia Antica archaeological site in southern Italy, include burnt animal bones and a carved wooden chalice

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How the photography trade is lifting as the medium’s stigma fades

The Art Newspaper

Sales volumes have hit a record high, with art at lower price levels particularly popular

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Swiss Bührle Foundation seeks to settle with Jewish heirs on major Impressionist works

The Art Newspaper

Paintings by Courbet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Gauguin are to be removed from display at Zurich’s Kunsthaus

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US authorities charge three UK nationals in Evolved Apes NFT fraud scheme

The Art Newspaper

The charges, brought by the office of the Attorney for the Southern District of New York, signal a commitment to pursuing wide-ranging cryptocurrency cases

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