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31ExhibitionsSecret talks between British Museum and Greece to return Parthenon Marbles in ‘advanced stages’
After more than 200 years at the British Museum, the Parthenon Marbles may soon return home to Greece, a move which would...
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39ExhibitionsCan art actually help improve Saudi Arabia’s abject human rights record?
Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi just can’t stay out of the news. Just when it seemed it had all gone quiet, Martin Kemp, the...
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18ExhibitionsA sumptuous history book of Venice, reveals the ‘mythical creature’ in all her glory
In Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel Le Città Invisibili (invisible cities), the Great Khan expresses surprise that among the many fantastical tales Marco...
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32ExhibitionsDavid Shrigley tells us about his new book and why he chose the ‘shit’ title
The British artist David Shrigley has been very busy making works over the past couple of years, especially during the UK’s Covid-19...
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20Museums & heritageMetropolitan Museum receives $10m donation for ongoing performance art initiative
The performing arts department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received a $10m gift from the American philanthropist...
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27Museums & heritageMonumental tree sculpture to be unveiled on New York’s High Line elevated park
This spring, a different kind of tree will take root on the High Line, the New York public park built on an...
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31Museums & heritageSon of revered realist painter Gregory Gillespie facing prison time over role in 6 January 2021 attack at US Capitol
Respected and collected during his life but perhaps less prominent in the years since his death, painter Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000) is something...
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29Museums & heritageFoundation of Victor Vasarely accuses London gallery of selling works by the Op artist that it doesn’t own
In October, the commercial gallery Mazzoleni Art opened an exhibition of early geometric works by the Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely at its...
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34BooksUS campaign group sues Smithsonian over return of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
A New York-based organisation known as the Restitution Study Group (RSG) is leading a lawsuit to stop the return of Benin bronzes...
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37Columnsfrom the Tate’s latest series delving into its collection to a colourful biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Look Again, Shahidha Bari, Jay Bernard, Philip Hoare, Johny Pitts, Tate Publishing, 48pp, £10 (pb)The latest publications in the Look Again series...
