February, 2025

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Signature Quilt Returns Home

Maine Antique Digest

On January 25 Dana Auctions LLC, Princeton, New Jersey, sold an 80" x 84" Pennsylvania signature quilt in the Star of Bethlehem pattern for $6150 (includes buyers premium). The estimate for the quilt, dated March 1913, was $300/600. The textile was crafted by the Zwingli Y. P.

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Brooklyn Museum workers protest mass layoffs and alleged union-contract breaches

The Art Newspaper

At least 100 people, including local politicians, gathered on Tuesday night to put pressure on museum leadership

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Don’t Miss “A Finding Aid to My Soul: For the Love of Archives”

Society of American Archivists

Society of American Archivists

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The Scientific Breakthrough That Revolutionized Gustav Klimt’s Art

Artnet News

In 1900, Vienna was at the forefront of science. Klimt was captivated. The post The Scientific Breakthrough That Revolutionized Gustav Klimt’s Art appeared first on Artnet News.

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Guggenheim Museum lays off 20 employees

The Art Newspaper

Cuts at the New York institution will affect 7% of its staff

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Egypt announces discovery of first royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's was found over a century ago

The Art Newspaper

The unearthing of King Thutmose II's tomb has been described as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years

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Nick Cave: My manager was like, ‘What the f**k are you doing?’ I’m like, ‘I’m going into the ceramics business’

The Art Newspaper

The rock stars Staffordshire-style figurines, on show at the Museum Voorlinden, tell the story of the devil and have helped Cave make sense of his own lifeand personal tragedyin a way that his songs cannot

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Egyptologists raise ‘mismanagement’ concerns after worker seen hammering at Great Pyramid of Giza

The Art Newspaper

Viral footage of a worker apparently using a hammer and chisel to chip at the stones of the pyramid has prompted debate across Egypt's heritage sector

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Archaeologist behind discovery of pharaoh's tomb says he may have found another

The Art Newspaper

Piers Litherland, who led the team which discovered Thutmose II's tomb, believes this latest chamber could contain the ancient king's mummy

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Major campaign to revamp UK arts education launches at Tate Modern

The Art Newspaper

The Arts and Minds campaign, which is supported by artists including Bob and Roberta Smith and Helen Cammock, seeks to put creativity front and centre within British school curriculums

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Harvard Art Museums receive trove of 64 Edvard Munch works

The Art Newspaper

The works are a bequest from the museums late, longtime supporters Philip and Lynn Straus

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Christie’s staging auction made up entirely of AI art

The Art Newspaper

The Augmented Intelligence sale is the first of its kind to be held at a major auction house

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Thousands call on Christie’s to cancel AI art auction in open letter

The Art Newspaper

The sale has sparked backlash from critics who say AI programmes exploit human artists

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Two mystery figures discovered beneath Picasso Blue Period painting

The Art Newspaper

Conservators at London's Courtauld Institute used x-ray and infrared images to reveal the previously unseen works

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New York Old Masters sales fall just short of expectations at Christie’s and Sotheby’s amid ‘tough’ market

The Art Newspaper

At this years winter auctions, the two big houses saw a mixed bag and mixed results

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Three years on from Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s artists and museums are keeping up the fight for their country’s culture

The Art Newspaper

From an artists handbook addressing life under occupation to exhibitions combatting colonial narratives, the examples of resistance are variousdespite growing pressure caused by US funding cuts

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Caravaggio masterpiece painted in Naples rather than Sicily, researchers suggest

The Art Newspaper

New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artists famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds

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Cemetery for enslaved people rediscovered at Andrew Jackson’s Tennessee plantation

The Art Newspaper

Long-obscured and forgotten, the burial plots of more than two dozen people enslaved by the seventh president of the US are located and honoured

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As Sudan’s civil war rages on, its heritage is under siege

The Art Newspaper

At least six museums and multiple historic sites have suffered looting or damage as a result of the conflict

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Duke of Marlborough portrait—given to Winston Churchill at one of lowest points in the war—brought back to life

The Art Newspaper

The recently restored painting was presented to the former UK prime minister in 1942 and will be exhibited at Chartwell, his family home

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Van Gogh’s hospital painting comes to London, returning for the first time in a hundred years

The Art Newspaper

The picture shows the ward where the artist slept after mutilating his earI witnessed the rooms tragic demolition

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The Netherlands to return 113 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

The Art Newspaper

It is the latest example of a country announcing that it will repatriate a group of these objects, which were looted by the British as part of a punitive expedition in 1897

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Sotheby's secures most valuable single owner collection of Old Master paintings to come to auction

The Art Newspaper

Around 60 works estimated for a total of $80m to $120m from the collection of Jordan and Thomas A.

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Technology reveals ancient text inside burnt Herculaneum scroll

The Art Newspaper

Scientists used artificial intelligence and X-ray imaging to decipher the Roman object's contents

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Indigenous communities assist with reinterpretation of Arizona petroglyphs

The Art Newspaper

At the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve, a new project seeks to update the antiquated archaeological records of thousands of ancient motifs

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Conservation work on Tintoretto’s ‘Crucifixion’ reveals traces of elaborate draughting grids

The Art Newspaper

The discovery adds to evidence that preparatory drawings were common practice for Venetian artists as well as for their Florentine peers

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Exhibitions reveal hidden stories of interned Japanese American artists

The Art Newspaper

Shows at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Denver Art Museum explore personal and professional struggle of those who were incarcerated during the Second World War

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Laser mapping reveals massive ancient Zapotec city in Mexican forest

The Art Newspaper

Long thought to be a fortress, Guiengola has been revealed as a sprawling city thanks to airborne lidar analysis

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Facing accusations of hiding Nazi loot, Bavaria pledges more research and greater transparency

The Art Newspaper

The states culture minister has responded to an outcry after a newspaper reported that the Bavarian State Painting Collections keeps an unpublished internal list of 200 Nazi-looted works in its possession

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More Australian art world figures condemn decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabi’s Venice Biennale project

The Art Newspaper

Last years Golden Lion winner Archie Moore and the National Association for the Visual Arts are among those to speak out in support of Sabsabi after he was dropped by Creative Australia

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Why newly appointed museum directors fail, and how to avoid it: Kaywin Feldman’s new book on leadership

The Art Newspaper

The director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, offers sage advice on how non-profits can best manage personnel changes at the top

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On Parade: Berwick-upon-Tweed communities go up in lights, ten times life size, on historic Hawksmoor building

The Art Newspaper

Matthew Rosier's film "Parade" projects the historic border town's diverse array of societies, teams, companies and bands back to itself in a project involving all ages

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Metropolitan Museum repatriates ancient bronze griffin head that was stolen from Greek institution

The Art Newspaper

Per the terms of the Mets agreement with the Greek government, the cast-bronze antiquity will return to New York next year for a special exhibition

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Roman basilica discovered beneath London office block

The Art Newspaper

The 2,000-year-old ruins were found close to Bank tube station and London Bridge

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Was a new Van Gogh really discovered at a garage sale? Here’s why I remain unconvinced

The Art Newspaper

The New York-based LMI Group claims the $50 portrait is a previously unknown work by the Dutch master, perhaps now worth $15m, but the Van Gogh Museum rejects it

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Unesco completes restoration of Mosul heritage sites damaged under Isis

The Art Newspaper

The UN body has brought several religious and other buildings in the Iraqi city back to life as part of an $115 million programme

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Why was the National Gallery shy of sharing its ‘Wilton Diptych’ report?

The Art Newspaper

The museums dendrochronological research had confirmed scholarly consensus on dating one of the UKs great masterpieces to the later 1390s

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