The decision by New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art to donate four works by Edward Hopper, including a major oil painting, to Sotheby’s New York spring sales this month …
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Amid an ongoing civil war, unique Christian murals have been discovered in hidden chambers in an ancient Sudanese town
by godlove4241
Early on the morning of Saturday April 14, shortly after the call to prayer, residents of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum heard mortar and artillery fire as intense fighting broke …
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Botticelli’s Venus as ‘influencer’ in tourism campaign faces widespread ridicule
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An official website and video using a computerized mascot inspired by Botticelli’s The birth of Venus (circa 1485) to promote tourism in Italy aroused much ridicule. Meanwhile, an Italian campaign …
THE San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after years of mounting financial difficulties, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Filing may precipitate liquidation of more than $65 …
Getty Images, the U.S.-British visual media company and image provider, has rejected a $4 billion takeover by Trillium Capital, a Boston-based venture capital firm, saying the bid is not “sufficiently …
The National Gallery in London will exhibit some unusual objects next week for an art museum. A piece of tattered brown cloth and a rope belt, allegedly over 800 years …
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Bored Ape Yacht Club creators win legal victory in lawsuit against artists who copied NFT collection
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A new partial judgment from a California court helps clarify trademark proceedings in the cryptosphere. On April 21, a judge ruled in favor of Yuga Laboratoriesa blockchain technology company that …
Tuesday evening (April 25), as Brooklyn Museum trustees, members and other well-wishers arrived for the institution’s annual meeting Brooklyn Artists Ball fundraiser, they were greeted by a picket line formed …
France is finally making public its long-awaited policy on the dossier responsible for the restitution of cultural property. The government will release tomorrow an 85-page report on the subject by …
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Nigeria transfers ownership of Benin bronzes to royal ruler, confusing European museums’ plans to return artefacts
by godlove4241
The Benin Bronzes restitution saga took a new turn after the Nigerian government officially recognized the Oba of Benin (Oba Ewuare II) as the owner and custodian of the objects …