September, 2024

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President Volodymyr Zelensky visits New York’s Ukrainian Museum, calls for ‘the decolonisation of Ukrainian art’

The Art Newspaper

The Ukrainian president and first lady, who are in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, inaugurated the museum’s major Alexandra Exter exhibition

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Crocker Farm Holds 20th-Anniversary Sale

Maine Antique Digest

Crocker Farm, Inc., Sparks, Maryland Photos courtesy Crocker Farm, Inc. “We were really happy with the sale, the quality throughout, and the diversity. I think it bore out in the total,” remarked Mark Zipp of Crocker Farm, Inc., following the family operation’s summer 2024 sale marking the 20th anniversary of the company.

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Share Your Archives during #AskAnArchivist Day

Society of American Archivists

#AskAnArchivist Day takes place this year on October 16 , and SAA wants your help to celebrate archives across the country.

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Local Antique Appraisers: How to Find a Reputable Antique Appraiser near Me?

Antique Appraisers Auctioneers

If you have an antique, it is crucial to know its value. Whether you’re looking to sell, insure, or simply understand the worth of your collectible, an accurate appraisal is essential. However, finding a reliable appraiser can be challenging. Below, we outline several effective methods to locate reputable antique appraisers in your area: 1. Attend Local Appraisal Fairs Antique appraisal fairs are excellent venues to meet knowledgeable professionals.

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Protestors who poured soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers sentenced to prison

The Art Newspaper

The incident, which took place at the National Gallery in 2022, will see Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland serve two years and 20 months respectively

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A new online museum is sharing the histories of repatriated objects

The Art Newspaper

The digital Museum of Looted Antiquities aspires to be an encyclopaedic repository on returned cultural artefacts—and to expose smuggling networks

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How tech is powering the art market’s expansion into luxury, finance and science

The Art Newspaper

Three years on from the NFT explosion, growth in new markets continues

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Netherlands to return 288 items looted in colonial era to Indonesia

The Art Newspaper

The repatriations show policy continuity despite the new right-wing government, experts say

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‘Unacceptable’: Ai Weiwei responds to his sculpture being smashed at Italian exhibition opening

The Art Newspaper

The artist was 'shocked and surprised' after 'Porcelain Cube' was destroyed by a man at Palazzo Fava in Bologna

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Sudan’s cultural heritage is threatened to an 'unprecedented level', Unesco says

The Art Newspaper

Looting by armed groups has been reported at institutions in Sudan, including the National Museum

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The Brutalist asks who owns the memory of the Holocaust and who defines an artist’s legacy

The Art Newspaper

Brady Corbet’s new film, feted at the Venice International Film Festival and now playing at the New York Film Festival, follows a Jewish, Bauhaus-trained architect adjusting to life and work in the US after the Second World War

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New repatriation documentary chronicles Indigenous groups’ struggles to recover artefacts from collectors and museums

The Art Newspaper

The Canadian documentary “So Surreal: Behind the Masks” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival

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Repatriation of objects is on the government’s agenda, says UK culture secretary

The Art Newspaper

Lisa Nandy's apparent support for repatriation reform has been welcomed by the head of London's Victoria and Albert Museum

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Inside New York's museum-building boom

The Art Newspaper

A wave of construction projects is updating and expanding the city’s art and cultural institutions, indicating a trend toward modernisation and growth

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‘You must walk close to the edge’—the pioneering German artist Rebecca Horn dies, aged 80

The Art Newspaper

Horn maintained a powerful drawing strand that supported her innovative conceptual sculpture practice around the human body in installations, performances and photographs

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‘An enormous milestone for museums’: platform designed to host 100 million object records launches in UK

The Art Newspaper

Those behind the Museum Data Service hope it will eventually host the details of objects held by 1,750 “accredited” museums and other collections

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Churchill’s Monet—restored after many years of cigar smoke—goes on show in Courtauld blockbuster

The Art Newspaper

Traces of the statesman’s smoke have been removed from the painting of Charing Cross Bridge, which took Monet 24 years to finish

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Nazi-loot restitutions in France face 'disproportionate delays' due to lack of funds, auditor report says

The Art Newspaper

Despite legislative relaxation, little progress has been made in returning art stolen during the Second World War since the 1950s

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Ten surprises at the National Gallery’s five-star Van Gogh exhibition

The Art Newspaper

Visitors will be ‘blown away’ by the masterpieces—but there are intriguing and little-known stories behind many of the loans

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Global turmoil and rising taxes tilt art trade towards new era

The Art Newspaper

Increasingly unsettled elites are making a struggling market even less predictable

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Animal rights protestors stage die-in at London’s Courtauld Gallery

The Art Newspaper

Members of the activist group Peta occupied the institution‘s LVMH Great Room

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Three arrested after Just Stop Oil protestors throw soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers—again

The Art Newspaper

Activists who took part in a similar stunt at London's National Gallery in 2022 were jailed earlier today

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‘Will it cause reputational damage?’: British Museum director discusses controversial BP donation

The Art Newspaper

In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, Nicholas Cullinan also mulls over the Parthenon Marbles and recent thefts scandal

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‘A driving force’: show at London’s Freud Museum to celebrate the women central to psychoanalyst’s world

The Art Newspaper

The exhibition opening in October will bring together works by artists including Paula Rego, Cornelia Parker, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas

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Julie Mehretu creates towering glass mural for Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

The Art Newspaper

The artist's 83ft-tall work, “Uprising of the Sun”, is the most prominent of many art commissions for the centre

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Sonia Boyce and John Akomfrah among 4,000 arts professionals urging UK government to stand up for culture

The Art Newspaper

The Venice Biennale artists are backing a collective manifesto which calls for new policies to support the visual arts

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Christie's will become first global auction house to operate in Saudi Arabia

The Art Newspaper

With the announcement of Riyadh-based managing director Nour Kelani, the firm hopes to deepen ties with the Kingdom's collectors and ambitious cultural projects

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UK public proud of the arts above all else—even sport—study says

The Art Newspaper

The British Social Attitudes Survey shows pride in arts and literature falling only 1% over the past decade, a much smaller drop than in other categories

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Co-owner of right-wing broadcaster GB News buys UK art magazine Apollo

The Art Newspaper

Paul Marshall acquires culture publication in £100m deal to also buy The Spectator

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Medieval French city of Carcassonne to be revealed in spectacular fashion after ‘biggest restoration’ in nearly two centuries

The Art Newspaper

Visitors to the historic site will now be able to get a panoramic view from its upper ramparts after the €5.

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Larry Gagosian and Peter Doig join forces in ‘unique collaboration’

The Art Newspaper

The British painter, who left his longtime dealer Michael Werner last year, is curating a show at Gagosian's New York gallery in November

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Row over Notre-Dame’s stained glass re-ignites

The Art Newspaper

President Emmanuel Macron wants to replace the Paris cathedral’s 19th-century windows, even though they were not damaged in 2019 fire

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MoMA’s longtime director Glenn Lowry will step down in 2025

The Art Newspaper

Lowry’s 30-year tenure at the museum included many milestones, from the merger that created MoMA PS1 to multiple renovations and expansions

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Surreal Watteau painting owned by Britain's first prime minister gets export bar

The Art Newspaper

The Rococo masterpiece is valued at over £6m

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Latest Fourth Plinth sculpture pays tribute to transgender communities

The Art Newspaper

The work by Teresa Margolles is made up of casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people from the UK and Mexico

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How to make Florence’s 'Museum of Tourism', the Uffizi, enjoyable again, according to its new director

The Art Newspaper

Simone Verde cannot reduce visitor numbers, so he means to spread them out over new delights

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Vikings invade the Nordic museum landscape with three themed institutions in the pipeline

The Art Newspaper

Museums dedicated to Viking culture and artefacts are taking shape in two cities in Denmark and the Norwegian capital, Oslo

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