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Saudi Arabia helps cultural businesses reach global audiences

The Art Newspaper

The Maker's Lab project by the Almashtal creative incubator in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Photo: Courtesy CDF This year has been named the Year of Handicrafts in Saudi Arabia, in order to highlight their importance to the kingdom’s history, identity and economic growth.

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The Company Policy about AI and Appraising

Artifactual History Appraisal

AI has been shown to plagiarize from scholars and other sources without proper attribution and draw from copyrighted material whose use is still being litigated in court. USPAP 2024 Edition, page 12). To highlight just a few of the many issues: -AI has been known to “hallucinate” and invent things that don’t exist or are incorrect. -AI

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Chasing Light: Artists and Collectors in the Summer Season

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Artists with A Summer Palette One of the greatest joys of the summer season is the way the landscape changes into a kaleidoscope of colours that come to life in the season’s shimmering sunshine and long shadows. Artist Pierre Bonnard exemplified this palette-powered energy. Fairfield Porter – Girl in a Landscape.

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Nadira Azzouz – An Iraqi Woman Artist Rediscovered

Mark Hill

Early in 2020, I bid on and bought a mid-century modern abstract oil on board painting at auction totally sight-unseen, because it looked like it might be the work of an artist I collect right now. Stupid, I know, for all the reasons and especially stupid because, when I went to collect it, it wasn’t by the artist I collect at all.

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Artistic Mediums of 2025: Where Touch and Technique Meet

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Both collectors and curators are sharpening their eye for the material and physical aspects of both emerging and established talents. Join in as we explore these manually motivated artistic mediums popular in 2025. The Triumph of Texture and Material: Textiles, Encaustic, and Ceramics Sheila Hicks – Macro Broderie Tapestry.

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A Hobby with Teeth: Collecting Decorative Hair Combs

WorthPoint

Hair combs made from precious materials and by prominent companies will likely always hold value, and prices reflect that. This 18k yellow gold hair comb , embellished with diamonds and produced by French luxury brand Boucheron, sold for $2,520 in 2024. Greeks and Romans used combs made of gold, bronze, and iron.

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The Beauty of Botanical Illustration: Capturing the Flora of the Natural World

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Botanical illustrations offer a unique combination of scientific study and artistic allure. Pietro Andrea Mattioli – 4 folios from “Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedacius Dioscorides Anazarbeus on Medical Material,” 1565. Sold for $60 USD via Ripley Auctions (February 2024).