June, 2024

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Victory without damage: ‘Just Stop Oil’s climate activism is one of the most successful disobedience campaigns ever’

The Art Newspaper

The climate catastrophe has been brought to the forefront of the public mind without causing serious harm to the targeted works, says John Paul Stonard

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Are the Basel Fairs Eating Each Other? Kenny Schachter Has a Theory—and News of a Big Bezos Art Deal

Artnet News

Fresh from Switzerland, our columnist also reports on the Digital Art Mile, which ran alongside the main event. The post Are the Basel Fairs Eating Each Other? Kenny Schachter Has a Theory—and News of a Big Bezos Art Deal appeared first on Artnet News.

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How Boston's Eliot School desegregated — and resegregated

Wbur

Since the end of mandatory busing in 1988, white students in the Boston public schools have tended to 'cluster' once again in a small handful of select schools, due to parent choice, persistent neighborhood segregation — and district policy. Since the end of mandatory busing in 1988, white students in the Boston public schools have tended to 'cluster' once again in a small handful of select schools, due to parent choice, persistent neighborhood segregation — and district policy.

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New Era for American Ceramics

Maine Antique Digest

Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland Photos courtesy Crocker Farm “This was our third-highest-grossing sale to date,” stated Mark Zipp of Crocker Farm following the family operation’s spring sale, which made $1,753,470 (including buyers’ premiums). There were 525 registered bidders for the spring auction.

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Bend, Oregon Certified Art Appraiser

Art Appraisal Resources

Expanding Art Appraisal Services to Bend, Oregon Art Appraisal Resources is excited to announce the opening of our new office in Bend, Oregon. This expansion allows us to better serve the vibrant arts community in Central Oregon and provide expert appraisal services to collectors, institutions, and art enthusiasts throughout the region. Bend has emerged as a thriving hub for artists and art lovers alike.

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Announcing the AASLH 2024 History in Progress Award Winners

American Association for State and Local History

For nearly eighty years, the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) has presented Leadership in History Awards to establish and encourage standards of excellence in the collection, preservation, and interpretation of state and local history in order to make the past more meaningful to all people. Today, AASLH announces the winners of the History in Progress awards.

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis vetoes $32m in state arts funding

The Art Newspaper

Museums and other cultural institutions will lose out on millions in promised grants that were originally in the state budget before it was sent to DeSantis to sign

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Myrtle the Turtle celebrates 54 years in Boston

Wbur

We're talking about Myrtle the Turtle, the oldest and most famous inhabitant of the New England Aquarium’s ocean tank. Over the decades, Myrtle has contributed to scientific research, been an ambassador for green sea turtles in the wild and become a cultural touchstone. We're talking about Myrtle the Turtle, the oldest and most famous inhabitant of the New England Aquarium’s ocean tank.

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Auction Prices Realized, June 2024

Maine Antique Digest

Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R.

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Operators of New York auction house charged with illegal sales of ivory and rhino horn artefacts

The Art Newspaper

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has charged the owners of Merces Gallery with selling prohibited animal products online

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‘I don’t think art in itself can change anything, but.’ Five decades of Peter Kennard’s art and activism

The Art Newspaper

The UK artist, whose work has been turned into placards and posters, is having a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery in London

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Germany returns looted antiquities in Berlin’s Altes Museum to Italy

The Art Newspaper

As a “thank you” gesture, Italy is reciprocating with loans from Paestum and Naples

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Two eco-activists arrested after Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder

The Art Newspaper

The ancient site remains open as curators investigate the damage

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Staff at the American Folk Art Museum vote unanimously to form a union

The Art Newspaper

The institution’s new union, formed under UAW Local 2110, will represent workers across departments including curatorial, information technology, retail and more

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Former Vatican employee arrested for allegedly trying to sell Bernini manuscript

The Art Newspaper

The 18-page document had previously disappeared from the Holy See's official archive

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Art of the Ice Age has a lot to teach us—it’s time the British Museum dedicated a gallery to it

The Art Newspaper

The museum is only one of two institutions in the world to see Ice Age art as part of human cultural endeavour, but it needs a proper space to explain and explore this

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‘Art gives you something to hold on to’: Dutch museum launches dementia-friendly programme

The Art Newspaper

A series of events will use the museum’s collection to spark memories and emotions

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Digital deluge: how will Art Basel respond to a surge of digital-art initiatives in Switzerland?

The Art Newspaper

The country is flexing its crypto-friendly credentials, while an art fair dedicated to all things digital is making its debut this week

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A piece of the action: museum partnership in New York invites visitors to take home fragments of digital artworks

The Art Newspaper

The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the Tezos Foundation have teamed up to offer the public a chance to acquire—for no cost—parts of works projected onto a screen in the lobby

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Stedelijk Museum restitutes Matisse Odalisque to Jewish arts patrons’ heirs

The Art Newspaper

Albert Stern, the former owner, sold the painting “out of necessity” in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, the Dutch Restitutions Committee says

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‘We are not seeing the picture Rubens intended’: conservation reveals drastic changes made to acclaimed Judgement of Paris

The Art Newspaper

More than a year of meticulous research and work has led to the painting being glowingly restored—while revealing amendments by an unknown artist that “changed the narrative completely”

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‘It must stop!’: French culture minister pursuing new law to deter art activists

The Art Newspaper

Rachida Dati tweeted about implementing a penal policy to combat the vandalism of works of art following an attack on a Monet masterpiece

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More than 80% of young, wealthy Americans want to collect art, survey finds

The Art Newspaper

Bank of America surveyed more than 1,000 US citizens with more than $3m in assets for their poll of high-net-worth individuals

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As winner of renamed ABS Digital Art Prize is announced, have we reached a turning point for conversations around NFTs and culture?

The Art Newspaper

Geneva-based RVig, who was awarded the prize for a piece inspired by Baudelaire, is hoping for a more nuanced understanding of what NFTs bring to the art world

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Salvator Mundi documentary The Lost Leonardo to become a television series starring Julianne Moore

The Art Newspaper

Moore, who is also an executive producer on the series, will star as art restorer Dianne Modestini

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Germany slashes VAT on art sales to 7%

The Art Newspaper

The reduction, which comes into effect next year, meets long-standing demands from German dealers

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Two (or more) into one: Urs Fischer invites owners of his digital sculptures to have them remade into a new work

The Art Newspaper

The maverick artist is working with 1OF1, collectors of high-level digital art, to offer owners of his "CHAOS" video sculpture series the chance to have them "fused" into new animations

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Bührle Foundation’s provenance research is inadequate, report finds

The Art Newspaper

The report by Raphael Gross calls for more research and details how Jewish owners are omitted from the published provenance

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Christie's hit with class action lawsuit over exposure of clients' personal data in cyberattack

The Art Newspaper

The complaint, filed on 3 June by a Dallas-based customer, is the latest problem for the auction house following a major cyberattack

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Who is Takako Yamaguchi, the Under-Sung Painter Causing a Frenzy at Auction?

Artnet News

After decades of quiet work, her evocative paintings breaking auction records and surpassing high estimates mark a sensational turn in the artist’s career. The post Who is Takako Yamaguchi, the Under-Sung Painter Causing a Frenzy at Auction? appeared first on Artnet News.

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A canny couple: Amsterdam’s former mayor and his wife identified as sitters in Frans Hals portraits

The Art Newspaper

Fresh research has revealed how the prestigious pair seized the moment to ensure their likeness was painted by the great Dutch artist

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Four Overlooked Women Abstract Expressionists Are Spotlighted in London

Artnet News

The exhibition shows how the principles of Abstract Expressionism were applied to the medium of collage. The post Four Overlooked Women Abstract Expressionists Are Spotlighted in London appeared first on Artnet News.

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British Museum opens new storage and research facility

The Art Newspaper

Known as BM_ARC, the site in Berkshire houses around 1.

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MFA Houston can keep Bernardo Bellotto painting seized by the Nazis, appeals court rules

The Art Newspaper

The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War

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Anya Gallaccio wins commission for London’s first ever HIV/Aids memorial

The Art Newspaper

The winning proposal features a tree trunk from which rings have been extracted and displayed nearby

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Mega museum planned for vast former hospital in Naples

The Art Newspaper

Albergo dei Poveri renovation is the latest stage of the Italian city’s cultural renaissance

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Monet to go on sale after Kunsthaus Zurich reaches settlement with Jewish heirs

The Art Newspaper

The collector and textiles entrepreneur Carl Sachs sold the painting after fleeing to Switzerland from Nazi Germany in 1939

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