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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nan Goldin, Brian Eno and Rosalind Nashashibi among signees of open letter accusing Royal Academy of 'anti-Palestinian censorship'

The Art Newspaper

The London institution removed works from a young artists’ exhibition earlier this month after they were deemed to be anti-semitic by the Board of Deputies of British Jews

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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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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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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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Royal Academy removes works from young artists’ exhibition following accusations of antisemitism

The Art Newspaper

A public letter from the Board of Deputies of British Jews criticised the RA's decision to display the works, and to do so without context

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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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'King Dingo': After his portrait of Australia's richest woman stirred controversy, Vincent Namatjira turns his sights on Charles III

The Art Newspaper

The aboriginal artist's portrait of Gina Rinehart made headlines after she called on the National Gallery of Australia to have it removed—now he has painted the British monarch

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Sonia Boyce, Maria Balshaw and Grayson Perry join campaign to advance the study of art history

The Art Newspaper

The Art History Now project sees over 90 big names share new reflections on what art history means to them

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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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