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Holocaust-restitution firm Mondex settles legal feud with heir over fees for $24m Chagall painting

The Art Newspaper

"Over Vitebsk" by Marc Chagall hung at the Museum of Modern Art for decades until 2020, when it was restituted to the the heirs of a Jewish-owned art gallery in 1930s Berlin

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Sameer Farooq’s library of flatbreads at the Toronto Biennial serves as a map of the city’s diasporic communities

The Art Newspaper

The artist has been researching flatbreads and tandoors, the community bakeries where they are often baked, in countries around the world since 2020

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Amid $33m renovation project, Bronx Museum’s executive director departs to lead MFA St Petersburg

The Art Newspaper

Klaudio Rodriguez, who has led the Bronx Museum since 2020, will take on his new role in Florida in October

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Prioritizing Your Clients

The Appraiser Coach

When the pandemic hit us full force in 2020, business skyrocketed. We had never been busier! If I had tried to do everything the same way I. Read More

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New Oral History Project Looks at the State of the Art World in 2020

MIR Appraisal

The year 2020 presented us with many challenges, but the art world continued to show its resilience during the global pandemic. This interview was conducted on August 14, 2020 by Nyssa Chow, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project at Bradford's home in Los Angeles, California.

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How Gretchen Andrew’s AI art is revealing the societal scars of ‘facetuning’

The Art Newspaper

Andrew, who has written on art and technology for The Art Newspaper since 2020, has worked with the creative robotics company Matr Labs to create her paintings in a process that is as tech-heavy as the facetuning itself. These digitally modified photos are colloquially known as “facetuned”.

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‘Our biggest heritage crisis’: why Britain’s churches are in danger

The Art Newspaper

Sussex church may scrap plans to remove historic seating Moves by parishes to replace pews with chairs for “flexibility” anger traditionalists Peter Howell Heritage news 5 November 2020 Historic churches of Naples are at risk from sinkholes Researchers have identified nine buildings that require a “quick response” and a further 57 places of worship (..)

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