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Cleveland Museum of Art acquires rare Giambologna marble sculpture

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Photo courtesy of Gary Kirchenbauer In 1989, an unpromising-sounding but alluring marble sculpture of a female nude came up for sale at a Christie’s auction held at an English country house in Hertfordshire. “It The other marble sculpture by Giambologna in the US, another nude dated to 1571-73, was bought by the Getty in 1982.

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

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They house treasures ranging from sculpture and ornate carvings to stained-glass windows and historic burial grounds. The nave has one of the largest single-stone roofs in the south of England, with beautiful original paintings on the 15th-century roof beams. Nearly half of England’s Grade I-listed buildings are churches.

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Introducing Julia Day, the Frick’s new chief conservator

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Critics and visitors alike oohed and aahed at the restored 1914 mansion, still the centrepiece of its celebrated holdings of Old Master paintings, Italian and French sculpture, fine decorative objects and furniture. That will not change. The Frick’s new Art Preparation and Installation Studio Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.,

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

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Alongside solo exhibitions for the octogenarian US sculptor Melvin Edwards and the young Namibian artist Tuli Mekondjo, Tschabalala Self is presenting an installation of her signature painted and collaged Black figures. ft of polyethylene over the Neo-Classical façade of the Kunsthalle Bern—their first wrapping of an entire building.

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At Baltimore Museum of Art, a new exhibition asks us to consider the connections between race, colonialism and the climate crisis

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Whether in painting, sculpture, textiles, film or photography all the artists in Black Earth Rising are dedicated to exploring questions of history, power, climate change, and social and environmental justice. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Echo Map I (2000) Baltimore Museum of Art.

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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

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All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

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No more business-as-usual: Art Basel demonstrates how dealers can adapt to thrive

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“We are pretty lean on what we bring, and specific,” says Wendy Olsoff, a co-founder of New York’s PPOW gallery, who adds that, to save money, she skipped installing a special floor for her stand and did not paint the walls. Are prices at the right level? “I I think Basel is way more accessible than it used to be,” she says. “I

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