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126Museums & heritageTibetan Buddhist shrine with more than 200 artefacts donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art
For decades, a mesmerising shrine of Tibetan Buddhist artefacts has been tucked away in a private home on New York’s Upper East...
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207ExhibitionsLacma reaches $750m fundraising goal for new Peter Zumthor-designed building
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) revealed this week that it has finally reached its $750m fundraising goal for the...
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131BooksSecond judge rules that Vermont Law School did not violate artist’s rights in covering up problematic murals
The Vermont Law School’s (VLS) decision to permanently obscure a pair of controversial murals on its campus does not violate the artist’s...
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31PodcastsNFT marketplace OpenSea ends its resale royalty policy, sparking industry-wide backlash
OpenSea, the largest non-fungible-token (NFT) marketplace still in the business of enforcing resale royalty payments to artists, announced on 17 August that...
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22Columnsgreat things can happen when art forms collide
A scene in the artist and film-maker Wang Bing’s latest film Man in Black has haunted me since I saw it. The...
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31ArtWhat impact has two years of Taliban rule had on the arts in Afghanistan?
The end of August marks two years since the US ended its 20-year war in Afghanistan by withdrawing its troops from the...
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34Museums & heritageRemembering Jamie Reid, a protest artist to the end and the man behind the shocking visual impact of the Sex Pistols
The international attention that Jamie Reid’s death has garnered has been astonishing, from the LA Times to the Hong Kong Daily News,...
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41ExhibitionsThe Metropolitan Museum plans major Harlem Renaissance exhibition
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it will open an exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance in February 2024—the first New...
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29BooksCouple behind Shanghai’s Long Museum to sell part of their collection at Sotheby’s
Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei, the Chinese billionaire collector couple who founded the Long Museum in Shanghai, one of the country’s most...
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41Podcasts‘More than 1,500’ artefacts were stolen from British Museum, internal investigation reportedly reveals
The number of items allegedly taken from the British Museum’s collection by the senior curator Peter Higgs is thought to total more...
