May, 2024

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The art world’s AI dilemma: how can artists and museums thrive when big tech controls the monetising of artificial intelligence?

The Art Newspaper

The presence of AI in every aspect of life has been a fact for the past 20 months. With the publication of the Stanford AI Index, two areas have come into focus. For museums, how to work with industry giants, without having their offering "distanced" by the summarising power of AI.

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The Found Object Show/art without intent

Maine Antique Digest

New York City The Found Object Show/art without intent is a show about patina, said Adam Irish of Old as Adam, an antiques dealer from Providence, Rhode Island, who manages the event. Found objects were not intentionally made by the maker to be “art.

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SAA Council Approves New Student Chapter, Assessed Indigenizing Archival Training and Section Health Assessment Groups

Society of American Archivists

May 28, 2024 — At its May 1–2 virtual meeting, the SAA Council: read more

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A Man Was Ordered to Build a Fence to Hide His Boat. He Asked an Artist to Paint the Boat on the Fence

Artnet News

Hilarity—and virality—ensued. The post A Man Was Ordered to Build a Fence to Hide His Boat. He Asked an Artist to Paint the Boat on the Fence appeared first on Artnet News.

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How to decide the best estate sale or auction services

Antique Appraisers Auctioneers

If you ever needed to sell your collectibles, perhaps because you’re moving from one home to another or due to some other reason, estate sale appraisers, estate sales and auction services are the most obvious options. Proponents of any of the methods would rightly come up with arguments about why you should choose one over the other. But that’s not what this article is about once you decide on the option that suits you best, the next question that comes to mind is ‘how do I know the best antique

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The Tudor blockbuster: why Holbein still mesmerises 500 years on

The Art Newspaper

"There is evidently something about Holbein that resonates strongly with modern audiences"

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David Hockney catalogue raisonné in the pipeline with painting volume expected in 2026

The Art Newspaper

More than 35,000 works to be documented over 20 years

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Hockney meets a Renaissance master in National Gallery two-hander

The Art Newspaper

Exhibition to explore David Hockney’s lifelong association with the London museum and engagement with Piero della Francesca’s “The Baptism of Christ“

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Experimental silent films by Man Ray, restored and with new scores, return to the big screen

The Art Newspaper

Four short films May Ray made in the 1920s are being re-released with new music by Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s band SQÜRL

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British Museum recovers a further 268 stolen objects

The Art Newspaper

The institution’s chair George Osborne has described the total number of items returned as a result that “few expected”, though more than 800 remain missing

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Cleveland Museum of Art will return ancient statue to Libya

The Art Newspaper

The two-foot-tall artefact, which hails from Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, will remain on view in Cleveland for "a few years"

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The US sculpture park communicating difficult truths amid a cultural backlash

The Art Newspaper

In a time of increased lawsuits over diversity initiatives, a civil rights organisation aims to make the history and legacy of slavery in the US undeniable through art and first-person narratives

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How drinking too much coffee fuelled Van Gogh’s work

The Art Newspaper

A highly personal still-life painting featuring a pot, milk jug and cups offers an insight into daily life in the Yellow House

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Sotheby’s to lay off dozens of employees in UK with further cuts planned in other locations

The Art Newspaper

Auction house is in “consultation period” ahead of redundancies, sources say

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New ‘Caravaggio’ work unveiled at the Prado divides scholars

The Art Newspaper

Ecce Homo work goes on show at Madrid museum but some critics disagree with new attribution

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Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart at centre of portrait controversy

The Art Newspaper

Mining magnate asked National Gallery of Australia to remove depiction by Aboriginal artist Vincent Namatjira

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Hackers claim responsibility for Christie's cyberattack and threaten to release client data

The Art Newspaper

The group RansomHub say they are behind the attack that took down the auction house's website earlier this month

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New York dealer Annina Nosei donates catalogues to Magazzino Italian Art

The Art Newspaper

The gallery catalogues range from 1986 to 2005

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Damien Hirst backdated at least 1,000 paintings from his NFT project, investigation reveals

The Art Newspaper

Discrepancies in the dates of Hirst's works are—once again—coming under scrutiny

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Club for working class people in art world to launch in London

The Art Newspaper

The independent organisation, called Arts and Graft, will host events to support visual arts workers from lower socioeconomic backgrounds in the UK

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Sotheby's makes $198.1m in consistently strong Modern evening sale in New York

The Art Newspaper

The results were led by Monet's 'Meules à Giverny' and Leonora Carrington's record-breaking 'Les Distractions de Dagobert'

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Julian Assange miniature goes on show (unofficially) at the V&A

The Art Newspaper

Hand-painted portraits of the WikiLeaks founder and his wife Stella were smuggled into a display case at the London museum in April

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The Gray Market: Why Sotheby’s $700m art-backed debt security is an acid test for the trade’s intentions

The Art Newspaper

The large-scale investment vehicle raises major questions about who gets to decide where, how and to whom art circulates

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Smoke, fire and livid sunsets: exhibition to show how Turner traced beginnings of climate breakdown

The Art Newspaper

Works on view at the artist’s house in London will reveal the way he captured the early impact of the industrial revolution on the British landscape

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Nine-year-old’s exhibition opens at Christie’s

The Art Newspaper

The show by the aspiring artist is supported by the auction house and the charity Art of Wishes

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Southern Brazil’s museums and historical sites threatened by torrential rains and flooding

The Art Newspaper

In the past month, record rainfall has wreaked havoc on the state of Rio Grande do Sul

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World’s first queer art biennial launching in Detroit

The Art Newspaper

Local non-profit Mighty Real/Queer Detroit has turned a citywide endeavour into the world’s first queer art biennial

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America as you've never seen it before: the Dutch settlement of New York from the Native American perspective

The Art Newspaper

An exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum in the Netherlands marks 400 years since the colonisation of the city at the mouth of the Hudson River

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A royal in red—King Charles III portrait unveiled

The Art Newspaper

The work by Jonathan Yeo shows Charles wearing the uniform of the Welsh Guards

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Theft of Bronze Age gold artefacts from UK museum sparks fresh concerns about lack of government investment in sector

The Art Newspaper

A bracelet and torc dating back thousands of years were taken from Cambridgeshire’s Ely Museum last week, shining a light on underfunding and its potential impact on security

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Newly discovered drawings in Pompeii indicate children saw bloody gladiators in action

The Art Newspaper

Charcoal sketches highlight they ‘witnessed battles in the amphitheatre’, says park director

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‘We’ve got our man’ says British Museum chair as BBC programme digs deep into thefts

The Art Newspaper

George Osborne’s comments were made on Thief at the British Museum, which has been released both as a one-off television show and a radio series

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The art world's AI dilemma: informed insight from industry experts

The Art Newspaper

The artist Refik Anadol, the museum director Thomas Campbell and the Future Art Ecosystems team at Serpentine share insights on how to thrive while working with artificial intelligence in 2024

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Kernel of truth: pollen cone stuck in paint reveals where Van Gogh’s Irises grew

The Art Newspaper

His purple flowers have now faded to blue, as revealed during research for a Getty exhibition in October

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Penn State university's art museum reopens in new $85m building that seeks to blend art with nature

The Art Newspaper

The Palmer Museum of Art in the city of State College, Pennsylvania, has nearly doubled its space

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More than 600 artefacts worth a total of €60m are repatriated to Italy from the US

The Art Newspaper

Italian authorities are using artificial intelligence to identify works of art up for sale that may have been stolen or trafficked

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Getting plastered: major conservation work begins on an extraordinary ceiling in Cornwall

The Art Newspaper

Visitors have the unique chance to see the barrel-vaulted ceiling of the Long Gallery at Lanhydrock up close thanks to a scaffolding platform

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