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36PodcastsRothschild foundation acquires lost Guercino masterpiece
Guercino’s Moses (around 1618-19) has been bought by Jacob Rothschild’s charitable foundation for around €2m. The painting is expected to be on...
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34ColumnsThe changing attitudes to Carl Andre’s ‘bricks’ show how art museums have been sucked into the culture wars
The readers of the Daily Mirror never did this. It is June 2016 and 200 protesters are pounding the glass walls of...
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35ArtLaurie Anderson withdraws from German professorship after criticism of Israel
The artist and musician Laurie Anderson, who is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Grammy this year alongside Donna Summer and Tammy...
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28Museums & heritageUS museums cover Native American displays as revised federal regulations take effect
Significant revisions to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) announced by the US Department of the Interior (DOI) went...
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30ExhibitionsSotheby’s and Rybolovlev’s lawyers paint contrasting pictures of culpability in fraud trial’s closing arguments
Exactly three weeks after the civil fraud trial between Sotheby’s and the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev kicked off in a Manhattan courtroom,...
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34BooksHead of Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ula cultural development arrested over corruption claims
Amr al-Madani, the head of the Al-Ula project in Saudi Arabia, was arrested over corruption allegations on 28 January. The chief executive...
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25PodcastsSotheby’s weathers ‘challenging market’ with $7.9bn of sales in 2023
Growth in areas including luxury goods and private sales helped Sotheby’s rack up a healthy $7.9bn total in 2023, a sticky year...
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23ColumnsKlimt portrait believed lost for a century to be auctioned in Vienna
A late portrait by Gustav Klimt that was hidden in private ownership and believed lost for decades is to be auctioned in...
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25ArtNew campaign group to monitor Istanbul Biennial developments following curator row
A campaign group concerned about the future of the Istanbul Biennial—now postponed until 2025—says that it will be “monitoring the structural changes”...
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25Museums & heritageGiant Shepard Fairey work calling for ceasefire in Gaza unfurled at Reina Sofia museum in Madrid
An enormous banner by the US street artist Shepard Fairey, based on a photograph of an injured Palestinian child crying by the...
