Campaigners celebrate scrapping of 'monstrous' Stonehenge tunnel scheme
The Art Newspaper
JULY 30, 2024
Labour government cancels redevelopment in spending squeeze—but heritage bodies say conservation solutions are still needed
July, 2024
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“Spring Extravaganza” Sale at Marion
Maine Antique Digest
JULY 24, 2024
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions Marion Antique Auctions held its “Spring Extravaganza” sale May 4 in the Marion, Massachusetts, gallery. The sale was live, with about 60 bidders in the room at various times. Staff were on the phones and executing left and online bids.
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The SAA Foundation Awards Recipients to Attend 2024 ARCHIVES*RECORDS Conference
Society of American Archivists
JULY 24, 2024
July 23, 2024 —The Society of American Archivists (SAA) Foundation is delighted to announce the recipients of the SAA Foundation 2024 Annual Meeting Award. Nineteen exceptional individuals have been selected to receive travel funds to attend the upcoming ARCHIVES*RECORDS Conference in Chicago, IL.
The Hunt: The Ancient Scrolls That Survived a Volcanic Event
Artnet News
JULY 13, 2024
About 1,800 papyrus scrolls were found in ancient Herculaneum, buried under ash and volcanic debris. The post The Hunt: The Ancient Scrolls That Survived a Volcanic Event appeared first on Artnet News.
Unesco warns that AI could rewrite Holocaust history
The Art Newspaper
JULY 24, 2024
What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?
UK spending on culture among the lowest in Europe, says landmark report
The Art Newspaper
JULY 23, 2024
The State of the Arts research document also shows arts education in England to be in “significant decline”
Protestors at Tate Modern call on arts patron Len Blavatnik to defend ‘press freedom’ in Israel
The Art Newspaper
JULY 22, 2024
Activist group claims news channel owned by billionaire cancelled programmes criticising Israeli government
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Decision on Stonehenge at-risk status delayed by Unesco committee
The Art Newspaper
JULY 25, 2024
The 18-month delay may pave the way for controversial tunnel redevelopment scheme, say campaigners
From a fox to a silky chicken: centuries-old paper cuttings discovered under floorboards of National Trust house
The Art Newspaper
JULY 16, 2024
The objects are believed to have been made by students in the 17th century, when Sutton House was a school
UK general election: can artists show the way for policymakers to enable a new digital economy?
The Art Newspaper
JULY 1, 2024
With lessons learnt from NFTs, expert calls for legal guardrails to allow “trinity” of blockchain, responsible AI and smart contracts to launch an “automated economy”
‘Like a child in a messy divorce’: Mary Beard and David Olusoga tackle Parthenon Marbles debate in British Museum panel
The Art Newspaper
JULY 8, 2024
Complexities of restitution, the relevance of the universal museum and burgeoning collections were all on the event's agenda
Iowa museum becomes first in US to return looted Benin bronzes to royal ruler
The Art Newspaper
JULY 18, 2024
The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art has defended its decision to hand back two objects to the Oba
Another object has been stolen from the British Museum—but this time by an artist
The Art Newspaper
JULY 15, 2024
Ilê Sartuzi's short-lived heist involving a 17th-century coin draws parallels to the recent scandal over the theft of thousands of items from the museum's collection
Nicholas Penny resigns from Acceptance in Lieu panel in protest over adviser ‘forced out’ of Arts Council role
The Art Newspaper
JULY 3, 2024
The former director of the National Gallery quits after “catastrophic” exit of Anastasia Tennant, the Arts Council’s senior policy adviser on cultural property
‘You’re right! This is Native land’: New site-specific sculptures in Maine centre Indigenous experiences and relationships with the land
The Art Newspaper
JULY 24, 2024
At the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, sculptures by Anna Tsouhlarakis and Shane Perley-Dutcher are part of a push to advocate for environmental and social justice
‘These are terrible crimes’: A Ukrainian museum director’s fight to recover art
The Art Newspaper
JULY 16, 2024
Alina Dotsenko of the Kherson Art Museum explains how her team is working to find stolen objects
Sacre bleu! Drag queen tableau not all about Leonardo, exclaims Olympics chief
The Art Newspaper
JULY 30, 2024
Conservative critics were angered by ‘Last Supper parody’, but art historians say the performance looks instead to a 17th-century Dutch work
Los Angeles museum repatriates 20 objects to the Warumungu people of Australia
The Art Newspaper
JULY 29, 2024
The Australian government pays the major expenses of repatriation, making it easier for cash-strapped museums to do the right thing
Rare ancient rock art found in Saudi Arabian lava tube
The Art Newspaper
JULY 3, 2024
Sixteen panels, thought to have been created 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, include rare depictions of sheep
Russian artist imprisoned for three and a half years over alleged anti-war supermarket protest
The Art Newspaper
JULY 22, 2024
Anastasia Dyudyaeva is the second artist in less than a year to be jailed for allegedly disseminating anti-government messages in such a setting
White Cube in London lets go of 38 invigilators—most of them artists and students
The Art Newspaper
JULY 31, 2024
The terminations follow a general trend among galleries that are moving away from visitor engagement to visitor management, the workers were told
Famed Egyptian archaeologist pledges to ‘join together’ with Italy to secure return of Mona Lisa
The Art Newspaper
JULY 23, 2024
The former antiquities minister is also demanding that three Egyptian treasures, including the Rosetta Stone, be sent to his home country
Oldest example of figurative art found in Indonesian cave
The Art Newspaper
JULY 4, 2024
The picture depicting a wild pig and a trio of human figures dates from 51,000 years ago, according to researchers, and suggests that Europe was not the birthplace of cave art
New York's Hispanic Society launches Goya Research Center
The Art Newspaper
JULY 16, 2024
Headed by the Goya scholar Guillaume Kientz, the new project anticipates the 200th anniversary of the artist’s death in 2028
‘My grandfather would be horrified’: protests against National Trust’s links to Barclays take place across UK
The Art Newspaper
JULY 29, 2024
National Trust staff, volunteers and members will lead parades, live music and protest picnics at 40 of the charity's locations
Hartwig Fischer, former British Museum director, is appointed to run Saudi museum of world cultures
The Art Newspaper
JULY 12, 2024
Fischer, who resigned after a theft scandal at the British Museum, has been announced as the founding director of the new institution, which is expected to open in 2026
Remembering Bill Viola, the artist whose video work expresses the heights and depths of human emotions
The Art Newspaper
JULY 15, 2024
The influential American pioneer produced a ground-breaking body of work in partnership with his wife, Kira Perov, over more than 45 years
Looted Asante treasures find a new palace home in Ghana
The Art Newspaper
JULY 10, 2024
Objects from the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum are on loan to the Asante king, while the Fowler Museum has transferred ownership of seven items
Behind the British Museum’s struggle to find a space to show one of its greatest Assyrian reliefs
The Art Newspaper
JULY 2, 2024
The rare and much-studied work has been in storage for most of 18 years, but no UK institution has asked to borrow it
American Museum of Natural History has repatriated more than 100 Native American human remains and 90 objects
The Art Newspaper
JULY 31, 2024
The institution intensified its repatriation efforts after revised federal rules governing Native American remains and funerary objects went into effect earlier this year
Why there is no case for returning the Mona Lisa to Italy
The Art Newspaper
JULY 26, 2024
An archaeologist’s claim this week that illicit actions have led the painting to be in France mirrors that made by the man who stole it more than a century ago—and it is entirely false
Mio dio—tourist gets amorous with Bacchus statue in Florence
The Art Newspaper
JULY 18, 2024
Art critic Vittorio Sgarbi says though that the act is ‘non-erotic’
The next Frida Kahlo? Exhibition lifts the lid on legacy of art market darling Leonora Carrington
The Art Newspaper
JULY 15, 2024
A UK selling show—curated by Carrington's cousin—taps into a growing interest in the Mexico-based Surrealist artist
J'accuse! Guerrilla artists take a swipe at 'polluting' Olympics sponsor
The Art Newspaper
JULY 26, 2024
Posters accuse car giant Toyota of ‘greenwashing’
An uncensored triumph for Barbara Carrasco's Los Angeles mural
The Art Newspaper
JULY 25, 2024
Four decades after refusing to sanitise her depiction of the city’s history, the artist will see her giant mural, and all its 51 vignettes of scenes and people, installed in the LA Natural History Museum’s new entrance pavilion
New London hub with ‘affordable’ artists studios to rise from ruins of 19th-century warehouse
The Art Newspaper
JULY 19, 2024
A scheme by the non-profit Create London will convert the Newham building into a culture and learning centre
Photography alfresco show honours Brummie poet giant Benjamin Zephaniah
The Art Newspaper
JULY 17, 2024
Public art display in Birmingham commemorates city’s cultural icon
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