November, 2024

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Princess Margaret’s ring from personal collection

Antique Collecting

A ‘decadent’ ring that was part of the personal collection of Princess Margaret will go under the hammer in Birmingham The post Princess Margaret’s ring from personal collection appeared first on Antique Collecting.

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California Institute of the Arts faculty and staff move to unionise

The Art Newspaper

Grievances include changes to healthcare benefits, stagnant wages, layoffs and running the nonprofit arts college like a for-profit business

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Battered and Broken: The Nirvana Guitar

WorthPoint

Kurt Cobain stage-used and smashed guitar, Jan. 18, 1991, Olympia, WA. Photo credit: Hake’s Auctions Usually, if an instrument or any other piece of equipment is damaged beyond repair, it winds up in a landfill, never to be seen again. That’s not the case for a guitar once owned and destroyed by rock and roll legend Kurt Cobain. In January 1991 , a small concert at the library on the campus of Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, was the scene of a rock and roll moment that produced a v

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Schutte Collection at New England Auctions

Maine Antique Digest

New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut Photos courtesy New England Auctions New England Auctions’ October 10 and 11 auction in Branford, Connecticut, brought to market the compelling six-decade early Americana collection of Thomas F. and Tess L. Schutte.

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Ballot Set for the 2025 SAA Election

Society of American Archivists

November 12, 2024 — The following candidates are slated for SAA's 2025 election. Information about each candidate will be posted to the SAA website in January.

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Painter Sarah Cunningham Reported Missing in London

Artnet News

Lisson Gallery, which represents her, has asked anyone with information to contact the police. The post Painter Sarah Cunningham Reported Missing in London appeared first on Artnet News.

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Crypto investor eats Cattelan banana he bought for $6.2m

The Art Newspaper

Justin Sun, who purchased the work just last week, also pledged to buy 100,000 bananas from the vendor who originally sold the fruit for $0.

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'The world's most expensive banana': Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian fetches $6.2m at Sotheby’s New York

The Art Newspaper

The buyer, the collector and crypto investor Justin Sun, immediately vowed to eat the banana

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Candida Gertler steps down from Outset Contemporary Art Fund citing 'alarming rise of antisemitism' in cultural spaces

The Art Newspaper

Move comes after 1,100 art workers sign an open letter demanding Tate cuts ties with the philanthropic organisation, which she co-founded in 2003

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Unesco calls for emergency session to protect Lebanese heritage sites

The Art Newspaper

Israeli strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon have damaged and threatened several important monuments, while Baalbek remains in peril

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UK art imports fall 16% for second year in a row as Hong Kong picks up slack

The Art Newspaper

Sector is lobbying UK government to simplify trading procedures, or risk being outpaced by competitors

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How ‘high street’ art galleries are achieving serious sales success

The Art Newspaper

They might not be hailed by the critics, but the likes of Opera and Halcyon are forging ahead

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'Two ex-art students just getting on with it': Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood to have first museum show next summer

The Art Newspaper

Donwood reveals the thinking behind the band’s album covers over the past 30 years—and why he gave up trying to paint a portrait of the band

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Rare Fra Angelico crucifixion scene acquired by Ashmolean for £4.48m after tense fundraising campaign

The Art Newspaper

An export bar had been placed on the work in January after it was sold at Christie’s last year

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US artist transforms former Confederate monument into heartfelt symbol

The Art Newspaper

With a gesture of love, Raúl de Nieves has altered a New Orleans space once described as ‘the most racist’ in the city

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The Louvre’s department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian art is taking shape—at last

The Art Newspaper

Years in the making, plans for the department were shelved a decade ago; now it is due to open in 2027

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Trespassing in the name of art history

The Art Newspaper

Our intrepid diarist goes in search of the site where Joseph Wright of Derby painted a late—sublime—landscape, on the shores of Ullswater

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Paintboxed! Artists invited to work with 1980s digital art tool once championed by Keith Haring and Richard Hamilton

The Art Newspaper

ArtMeta art fair and Tezos ecosystem are taking Quantel Paintbox—used by contemporary art giants four decades ago—on a global tour to introduce it to a new generation of creators

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Manhattan District Attorney's Office returns antiquities worth a total of $500,000 to Mexico

The Art Newspaper

The trove of 30 Mesoamerican objects includes a ceremonial trophy for the first ball game

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‘Like Picasso, everything he touched was wonderful’: the art world pays tribute to Frank Auerbach

The Art Newspaper

Curators, institutions and critics remember a “humble giant of figurative painting” who worked from the same London studio for 70 years and made his home city, its art collections and inhabitants the subject of his unique output

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Leonardo Cartoon was ‘presentation drawing’ in Florence commission bid

The Art Newspaper

Leonardo’s largest known drawing was hung with the Mona Lisa in his studio, says Per Rumberg, the curator of the Royal Academy’s Florentine Old Masters exhibition opening this month

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Unesco steps in to protect Lebanese heritage sites

The Art Newspaper

Following an “extraordinary” meeting, the heritage body has put 34 historic sites on its enhanced protection list

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‘Everything went wrong’: Warhol prints stolen and damaged in bungled Netherlands heist

The Art Newspaper

Two of the vulnerable works were damaged and abandoned, while two others were apparently too large to fit in the getaway car and so were cut out of their frames

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Dealers at Artissima await 'potentially transformative' changes to art tax in Italy

The Art Newspaper

The 31st edition of the contemporary art fair sees Italy's art market players cross their fingers—or fear for the worst

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Auction houses expect this month's New York sales to bring in as much as $1.6bn

The Art Newspaper

The most valuable lot of the week is a record-breaking Magritte with a third-party guarantee, but the most talked-about is a conceptual still life by Maurizio Cattelan

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After 50 years, Milan’s new Modern art museum opens

The Art Newspaper

Palazzo Citterio, part of the new Grande Brera cultural complex, is set to be inaugurated on 7 December

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British Museum receives ‘highest value object donation in UK museum history’

The Art Newspaper

A private collection of 1,700 ceramic items was given by the Sir Percival David Foundation

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The arts should be recognised as a key part of what it means to be human, argues a new publication

The Art Newspaper

An urgent treatise on the decommodification of culture by the professor of cultural economy Justin O’Connor

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Climate activists who dumped red powder on US Constitution at National Archives sentenced to prison

The Art Newspaper

Donald Zepeda and Jackson Green were also involved in the paint attack on Degas’s ballerina and writing “Honor Them” on a wall last year at the National Gallery of Art

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Who wore it best? A century of artists’ style

The Art Newspaper

The fashion writer Derek Guy—perhaps best known for his pithy menswear observations and advice, dolled out via X—talks us through his sartorial favourites, from David Hockney to Njideka Akunyili Crosby

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How luxury buyers are changing art as we know it

The Art Newspaper

The trade is increasingly reliant on an ultra-wealthy international clientele that lives what may be termed a ‘luxury lifestyle’

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Christie’s and Sotheby’s pin hopes for New York November sales on single-owner collections

The Art Newspaper

In a subdued market, the season’s most promising auctions are of estates

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Snug as a bug: conservation work reveals beetle in Gauguin cat painting

The Art Newspaper

The painting, which has just gone on display at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, was previously hidden away in a private collection for over a century

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Welsh government hopes to boost tourism and heritage with proposed ‘tourist tax’

The Art Newspaper

Wales may follow cities such as Venice in introducing the controversial levy

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Looted Etruscan treasures seized after ‘tomb raiders’ post works online

The Art Newspaper

Italian police used wire taps and drone surveillance to intercept the thieves

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Australian museum under fire for acquiring object linked to protesters' attack on well-known painting

The Art Newspaper

Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’

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Frick Collection to reopen in April with Vermeer exhibition in the works

The Art Newspaper

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is returning the favour and lending one of its works after showing the Frick’s Vermeers in its blockbuster exhibition last year