March, 2025

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Tate Modern announces 2026 programme, including Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin exhibitions

The Art Newspaper

Meanwhile Tate Britain will explore the legacy of Bloomsbury Group members Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and tell the story of the 90s in a show curated by Edward Enninful

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The 71st Winter Show

Maine Antique Digest

New York City For 71 years during the last ten days of January the great drill hall at the armory on Park Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets has been filled with the finest objects, paintings, books and manuscripts, textiles, and jewelry that the exhibitors can muster.

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Changes to Archival Outlook Mailing Procedures

Society of American Archivists

CHICAGOSAAs bi-monthly magazine, Archival Outlook , has long been made available to SAA members in both print and digital formats. Both formats have their benefits and drawbacks, and we recognize that different people have different preferences when it comes to reading.

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‘Blade Runner’ Designer Syd Mead’s Sci-Fi Art Gets Major New York Outing

Artnet News

The industrial designer and concept artist shaped some of cinema's most enduring sci-fi scenes. The post ‘Blade Runner’ Designer Syd Mead’s Sci-Fi Art Gets Major New York Outing appeared first on Artnet News.

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Bronze Age Corsican statue sold at auction in London is a ‘fake’, French cultural authorities claim

The Art Newspaper

Officials and archaeologists have said the small object, which was auctioned by Lyon and Turnbull for 22,500 earlier this month, is a copy

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Bigger is not better and free admission costs institutions less, museum report finds

The Art Newspaper

Remuseums second report concludes that admission fees are raising few funds and keeping out potential visitorsand expansions are often not worth the money

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MoMA picks chief curator of prints and drawings as next director

The Art Newspaper

Christophe Cherix will replace Glenn Lowry, who has been the museums director since 1995 and guided it through two important expansions

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Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle

The Art Newspaper

Years later, inspired by Vincents paintings, the French artist became a wild beast

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The big slowdown: why museums and galleries are putting on fewer shows

The Art Newspaper

Exhibitions are lasting longer, artists are reducing their output and more discerning collectors are all contributing to the change

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April's must-see exhibitions: Matisse, Morris and the design of the 1940s

The Art Newspaper

The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

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How a Portuguese entrepreneur turned an 18th-century palace into a private museum

The Art Newspaper

Museu de Arte Contempornea Armando Martins opens on 22 March, at a time of significant growth in Lisbons art scene

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Ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets discovered in Iraq reveal intricate details of how empire was governed

The Art Newspaper

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic ruler

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Princeton University Art Museum to open in brand-new building on 31 October

The Art Newspaper

Just in time for Halloween, the museum will celebrate with a 24-hour open house

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Is the declining value of Old Masters due to a lack of education?

The Art Newspaper

Tefaf Maastricht, which holds its 38th edition this month, is attempting to teach audiences about pre-20th century art.

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London contemporary art auctions kick off with £5.4m record for Lisa Brice, despite geopolitical chaos

The Art Newspaper

Last night's sale at Sotheby's, which totalled 62.5m, also included a 4.

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‘Ravaging shared heritage’: South Korea wildfires destroy ancient temple and threaten Unesco site

The Art Newspaper

At least 26 people have died in the fires, which are now the country's worst ever natural fire disaster

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As Tate marks Turner’s 250th birthday, his visions of a wild world still elevate, soothe and harrow the soul

The Art Newspaper

A year-long event bonanza will mark the birthday of perhaps the greatest British artist ever

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Tutankhamun treasures head to Hong Kong for region's ‘largest Ancient Egypt show in decades’

The Art Newspaper

Seven Egyptian venues will loan over 200 works for the show, including objects from Saqqara tombs

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A painting of Venice’s Grand Canal, previously thought to be by Canaletto, has been attributed to his teenage nephew

The Art Newspaper

Specialists at London's Wallace Collection have attributed an 18th-century work to Bernardo Bellotto, who would then have been aged just 15 or 16

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Basquiat to Chagall: Hong Kong's international auction houses turn to household names during art week

The Art Newspaper

As mainland Chinese art buying continues its post-pandemic contraction, Christies and Sothebys are pivoting fromultra-contemporary Western artists towards tried-and-tested 19th- and 20th-century big hitters

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The Grand Egyptian Museum is due to finally open on 3 July, here’s a sneak peek

The Art Newspaper

The Art Newspaper took a tour of this treasure-stuffed colossus and was impressed by its gargantuan scale and coherent layout

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At home with Goya, Titian and Velázquez: Joana Vasconcelos makes a flamboyant impression in Madrid’s Liria Palace

The Art Newspaper

The Portuguese artist mounts the first contemporary exhibition to be installed alongside the Duke of Albas fabled art collection

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Semi-autonomous artists can offer society new means of working with AI

The Art Newspaper

Artists have a history of giving cultural and social relevance to new technology.

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Comment | 'The government needs to cancel the British Council’s debt'

The Art Newspaper

V&A director Tristram Hunt on the dangers of the cash-strapped cultural organisation disappearing

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Energy returns to a changed Art Basel Hong Kong

The Art Newspaper

While there were fewer US collectors, and Chinese spending remains lower, the increased Southeast Asian presence and an "exponential growth" of Gen Z buyers is notable at this year's edition of the fair

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Two-Day Sale at New England Auctions

Maine Antique Digest

New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut Photos courtesy New England Auctions The first day of the two-day sale held by Fred Giampietros New England Auctions January 8 and 9 in the Branford, Connecticut, gallery, featured material from Ron and Penny Dionne, Allan and Kendra Daniel, and a Stonington, Connecticut, estate.

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Latest round of money laundering penalties hit UK trade 

The Art Newspaper

White Cube and Carl Kostyl are among the list of businesses fined for failing to comply with regulations

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Christie's AI art auction outpaces expectations, bringing in more than $728,000

The Art Newspaper

In all, 28 of the Augmented Intelligence sale's 34 lots found buyers, including pieces by Refik Anadol, Charles Csuri and Harold Cohen

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Sotheby's to sell art belonging to Brazil's Lady of the Resistance

The Art Newspaper

The journalist and collector Niomar Moniz Sodr Bittencourt, who established the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, was exiled after speaking out against Brazil's military dictatorship

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Record for Indian painting at auction smashed by $13.7m M.F. Husain

The Art Newspaper

The work sold at Christies New York, almost quadrupling its $3.

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Jack Vettriano, immensely popular artist whose market success reflected 'an appetite for the glamorous', has died, aged 73

The Art Newspaper

The sale of The Singing Butler at Sothebys in 2004, for a record price for a painting by a Scottish artist, caused a sensation and turned attention on Vettriano's critical and institutional neglect

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As collector strategies shift, prints are experiencing new levels of popularity

The Art Newspaper

With buyers taking prints more seriously, publishers, collectors and dealers are embracing the unique commercial advantages of editioned works

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With the building of a new museum, Poland at last has a fitting space to tell Treblinka’s horrific story

The Art Newspaper

The notorious death camp, in which hundreds of thousands perished, is only now getting a proper museum space to ensure the dark chapter in Europes history is not forgotten

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Politician detained after attacks on ‘blasphemous’ works at Greek National Gallery

The Art Newspaper

Four works by artist Christoforos Katsadiotis were vandalised earlier this week, The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens confirmed

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Yoko Ono’s acclaimed Tate Modern retrospective will travel to MCA Chicago

The Art Newspaper

The museum will be the only US venue for the exhibition, which brings together more than 200 objects including participatory installations and performance documentation

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Two found guilty in theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet

The Art Newspaper

The Crown Prosecution Service says it is confident that the case played a part in disrupting a wider crime and money-laundering network

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Frieze Masters appoints Emanuela Tarizzo as director

The Art Newspaper

The art adviser and former director at Tomasso gallery takes the reins from Nathan Clements-Gillespie at a pivotal time for Frieze, which is presently being considered for sale

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