October, 2024

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Antique Auctions: Know How the Auction Process Works

Antique Appraisers Auctioneers

Antique auctions are the stuff of theater and carry with them an air of luxury and wealth. We all have the image in mind of fine antiques and collectibles up on the auction block with fast-talking and smooth antique auctioneer crisply starting the bidding. We picture a room full of wealthy people with paddles bidding and driving the price up, creating drama.

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Florida arts organisations devastated by Ron DeSantis's funding cuts

The Art Newspaper

Right-wing governor's decision to slash entire $32m budget leaves smaller organisations fighting for survival

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Summer Antiques and Americana Sale

Maine Antique Digest

Hess Auction Group, Manheim, Pennsylvania Photos courtesy Hess Auction Group Hess Auction Group in Manheim, Pennsylvania, known for its sales of real estate and farm and commercial equipment, continued the long tradition of sales of antiques at 768 Graystone Road in Manheim when it acquired Conestoga Auction Company in 2014.

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American Archivist Calls for Proposals on User Experience

Society of American Archivists

The American Archivist Editorial Board invites proposal submissions for a special section in American Archivist , illuminating the wide-ranging spectrum of user experience topics and initiatives in the archives field today.

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The Guggenheim presents a new view of Orphism—the movement that time forgot

The Art Newspaper

Featuring 82 works by 26 artists, this show tells the story of the short-lived style and its main protagonists

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Polish bank works with blockchain company and an Arctic vault to safeguard country's artistic heritage

The Art Newspaper

Bank Pekao and the Aleph Zero platform collaborate to keep secure data by tokenising the digitised records of important works of art

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US Supreme Court declines to hear case challenging Smithsonian's restitution of Benin Bronzes

The Art Newspaper

A New York-based organisation had sought to block the artefacts’ return to Nigeria

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An open letter from the National Museum Directors' Council: 'These attacks have to stop'

The Art Newspaper

The leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums highlight the "enormous stress for colleagues at every level of an organisation" and "visitors who now no longer feel safe" following series of protester attacks on museum works

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How to decode art: UK schools embark on ‘visual literacy’ week

The Art Newspaper

As government aims to put the arts at the heart of the curriculum, an Art UK project is teaching children how to 'cope with today’s image-saturated world'

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Maurizio Cattelan’s famous duct-taped banana could bring more than $1m at auction

The Art Newspaper

"Comedian" (2019) is one of the most viral (and controversial) works of art of the past decade; Sotheby's hopes it has not lost its a-peel

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Leonora Carrington’s Mexico City home will no longer become a public museum

The Art Newspaper

The house will be a research centre instead, allegedly due to a labour struggle at the university that owns it

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‘Art is being squeezed out’: Royal Academy poster campaign calls for increased arts education in UK schools

The Art Newspaper

The campaign highlights the dramatic drop in number of students studying art, design and technology at GCSE

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Paul Lowe, conflict photographer and teacher lauded for Sarajevo siege photographs, dies, aged 61

The Art Newspaper

Acclaimed photojournalist's teenage son charged with his murder on a popular hiking trail near Los Angeles

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Nazi-looted Monet returned to heirs after the FBI traces it to New Orleans

The Art Newspaper

Missing for more than 80 years, the 1865 pastel will be handed over in a ceremony today after the couple who bought it relinquished it voluntarily

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Victoria and Albert Museum reveals opening date and programme for ambitious new east London storehouse

The Art Newspaper

The museum has also announced details of the much anticipated David Bowie Centre, due to be housed on the same site

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New Niki de Saint Phalle documentary chronicles her personal struggles and aesthetic triumphs

The Art Newspaper

Michiko Matsumoto’s film “Viva Nicki”, which recently premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, also attests to the artist’s enduring popularity in Japan

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Can London establish itself as digital art capital of the world?

The Art Newspaper

In the game-changing era of NFTs and AI, the city’s diversified art ecosystem has helped it play catch-up as the medium’s global hub

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Just Stop Oil protestors place high-vis jacket on ancient Greek statue at The British Museum

The Art Newspaper

The campaign group dressed up a sculpture of the goddess Demeter and added a speech bubble beside it reading “just stop famine”

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Painting by AI robot Ai-Da could bring more than $120,000 at Sotheby's

The Art Newspaper

The robotic brainchild of British gallerist Aidan Meller will make her auction debut on Halloween

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A new study seeks to establish ethical collecting practices for US museums

The Art Newspaper

The Penn Cultural Heritage Center’s three-year national study amplifies ongoing calls for transparency and will provide a collecting framework

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British photographer Rankin’s advertising agency files for bankruptcy amid tough 'shift in the creative landscape'

The Art Newspaper

Rankin, who has photographed David Bowie and Queen Elizabeth II among others, says the last two years have been "massively challenging" due to reduced budgets and losing work to programmatic and AI-based solutions

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New UK arts minister: 'I am passionate about people being able to make a career out of art'

The Art Newspaper

In front of a crowd at Frieze Masters, Chris Bryant MP discussed funding, culture wars and the importance of education

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Ancient throne room of a powerful Moche woman discovered in Peru

The Art Newspaper

The so-called “Hall of the Moche Imaginary” is one of two elaborately decorated spaces archaeologists recently uncovered at Pañamarca

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Two-for-one: double-sided Van Dyck to be sold at Christie's

The Art Newspaper

An Andalusian horse was last sold at the auction house in 2000, after which another landscape was discovered, hidden on the back

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'A real leap of faith': Swiss auction house to offer works authenticated by AI

The Art Newspaper

The move fuels the debate about whether artificial intelligence can replace the human eye and expertise in assessing a picture’s authorship

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Historical auction results show centuries-old demand for women artists

The Art Newspaper

Our exclusive analysis of auction records in Paris until 1850 reveals around 500 sales of works by women, and striking parallels to the art trade today

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Indonesia's national museum reopens after devastating fire

The Art Newspaper

Exhibition of 2,500 repatriated objects, including the "Lombok treasure", inaugurates the newly refurbished space

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In a gallery far, far away: new Star Wars-themed museum to bring together 1.5 million objects, including 15ft-long painting

The Art Newspaper

The museum, whose owners are still searching for a building, seeks to merge the four largest current collections of Star Wars props, toys and works of art

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From ordinals to ownership: Christie's explores new frontiers of blockchain-based provenance

The Art Newspaper

The auction house runs two auctions that place web3 increasingly at the heart of the traditional art market

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Revealed: the surreal dispute over Leonora Carrington’s late bronze sculptures

The Art Newspaper

Scholars and heirs are divided over bronze editions attributed to the British-Mexican Surrealist’s final years

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David Shrigley unveils giant mantis sculpture at his former school, calling attention to perilous state of UK art education

The Art Newspaper

The number of arts students has plunged in the past decade

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Out with the new, in with the old: why galleries are returning to established names

The Art Newspaper

While bigger ticket items have been selling at Frieze Masters, once high-flying ultra-contemporary artists have fallen out of favour

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Taliban pledges to protect Buddhist city by mining underground

The Art Newspaper

Afghan minister says that copper extraction by a Chinese company at Mes Aynak, an important archaeological site, will avoid damage to relics

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Just Stop Oil activists who glued themselves to Turner painting acquitted

The Art Newspaper

Just days after Van Gogh soup pair sentenced to jail, a judge found the protesters' actions to be 'proportionate'

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‘Indefensible’: fossil fuel extraction at Unesco sites set to rise by more than 70% in coming decades, says report

The Art Newspaper

A study by Leave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO) research group states that fossil fuel activities within Unesco sites across the world are due to produce 11.

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Whitney Museum to waive admission fees for 25s and under thanks to gift from Julie Mehretu

The Art Newspaper

The artist, a member of the museum’s board of trustees, gave more than $2m to expand its free admission policy

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Gen X are the biggest spenders on art as 'speculative' millennials drop back, latest UBS/Art Basel survey finds

The Art Newspaper

The 200-page report, authored by Clare McAndrew, also revealed stable Chinese buying and buoyancy at the lower end of the market as top end softens