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In His Latest Role, Johnny Depp Tries His Hand at Art, With a Big Show of Stuff in New York

Artnet News

The immersive exhibition brings together artworks the actor has created over the decades. The post In His Latest Role, Johnny Depp Tries His Hand at Art, With a Big Show of Stuff in New York appeared first on Artnet News.

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The art of the algorithm—new magazine launches dedicated to Artificial Intelligence works

The Art Newspaper

Biannual publication spotlights 'visual experiments and conceptually refined pieces'

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‘One auction house will fold, as will more fairs’: experts give their art market 2025 predictions

The Art Newspaper

We asked the art worlds movers and shakers what's in store for the next 12 months

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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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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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Gold star medal taken from an Ethiopian war hero surfaces at auction

The Art Newspaper

The grandchildren of Ras Desta Damtew, an Ethiopian general and noble, are seeking to recover the piece, listed in the online auction catalogue as coming from the estate of an Italian soldier who was present at Desta Damtew’s execution

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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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Remembering Frank Auerbach, one of the leading artists of his generation, who has died aged 93

The Art Newspaper

The German-born British painter, a leading figure in the School of London, produced some of the most enduring and perceptive observations of what it meant to be alive during his time

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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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Caravaggio portrait, unseen for decades, goes on view in Rome

The Art Newspaper

The portrait of Maffeo Barberini was first attributed to Caravaggio 60 years ago, but had not been publicly displayed until now

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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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Environmental row escalates as historic Marks & Spencer store in London is set for demolition

The Art Newspaper

Campaigners argue rebuilding Orchard House will release harmful embedded carbon and are calling on government to promote refurbishment over destruction

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The ‘pearly triangle’: neurological investigation reveals secret of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

The Art Newspaper

The study also found that when volunteers looked at five works of art in the Hague’s Mauritshuis museum, their brains responded ten times more positively than when they viewed reproductions

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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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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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Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor anticipating their demolition of false columns

The Art Newspaper

Work on foyer reveals John Sainsbury’s note buried in extension to London’s National Gallery

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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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US artists score victory in landmark AI copyright case

The Art Newspaper

A federal judge in California has blocked an attempt by several AI companies to have portions of a copyright case dismissed

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More than 1,100 works by 400 artists: how the National Gallery collection will be redisplayed

The Art Newspaper

In May 2025, after a nine-month programme of refurbishing, redesigning and relighting rooms, a new interpretation of the museum will be unveiled

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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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Campaigners celebrate scrapping of 'monstrous' Stonehenge tunnel scheme

The Art Newspaper

Labour government cancels redevelopment in spending squeeze—but heritage bodies say conservation solutions are still needed

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Unesco warns that AI could rewrite Holocaust history

The Art Newspaper

What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?

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UK spending on culture among the lowest in Europe, says landmark report

The Art Newspaper

The State of the Arts research document also shows arts education in England to be in “significant decline”

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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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Protestors at Tate Modern call on arts patron Len Blavatnik to defend ‘press freedom’ in Israel

The Art Newspaper

Activist group claims news channel owned by billionaire cancelled programmes criticising Israeli government

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Beeple unveils generative work with an urgent environmental message

The Art Newspaper

The sale of the work, unveiled at Italian Tech Week, supports non-profit initiatives like food justice and the protection of millions of acres of land and sea

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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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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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