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German Cultural Venues That Need to Beef Up Their Security Will Benefit From a New €32 Million Government Grant
The German government has announced that it will hand out €32 million ($38 million) …
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German Cultural Venues That Need to Beef Up Their Security Will Benefit From a New €32 Million Government Grant
The German government has announced that it will hand out €32 million ($38 million) this year to national cultural institutions undertaking moderniza…
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A Cherished Diego Rivera Mural Is One Step Closer to Landmark Status, Roadblocking the San Francisco Art Institute’s Option to Sell It
A mammoth fresco by Diego Rivera at the cash-strapped San Francisco Art Institute that the school’s board was considering selling to pay down its mou…
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The Rijksmuseum Had Its Lowest Attendance Last Year Since 1964. But Its Digital Audience Has Grown by Leaps and Bounds
Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum, which was closed for much of last year, had its lowest attendance in decades in 2020, with visitors dropping by more t…
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Hank Willis Thomas’s Poignant Memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King Will Be Unveiled in Boston Next Fall
A 22-foot-tall bronze memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King will be unveiled next year in the country’s oldest public park.
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Newly Discovered Jesus Drawing Is a True Leonardo da Vinci, Expert Claims
A drawing that was in a private collection for years has been attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. The Italian-language newspaper La Stampa reports that …
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Long-Lost Jacob Lawrence Painting Spent 60 Years Hanging in NYC Apartment
In late August, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a new show centered on Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle: From the History of the American People serie…
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'Two Laughing Boys' stolen for a third time
Thieves stole a painting by Dutch Golden-Age master Frans Hals from a small museum near the Dutch city of Utrecht on Thursday, police said, the third…
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MUSEUM
French Art Museums Get a Big Boost From the Government’s New $2.4 Billion Rescue Package for the Culture Sector
The French culture sector is getting a reprieve from the ongoing lockdown losses thanks to a recently unveiled government plan to dedicate $2.3 billi…
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Sculptors seek to create Black figures in bronze
The toppling of Confederate statues during nationwide protests against racial injustice brought renewed attention to the importance of U.S. public mo…
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MUSEUM
The Babe poised to hit another homer as historic bat goes on sale
Babe Ruth is poised to hit another home run, only this time on the sports memorabilia market when the bat he used to slug No. 500 nearly a century ag…
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MUSEUM
Elizabeth I revealed as the translator of Tacitus into English
LONDON - Elizabeth I, one of England’s best-loved monarchs, has been revealed to be the translator behind an English version of an ancient text by T…
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MUSEUM
Archaeological crime gang uncovered in Italy, 10,000 artifacts recovered
ROME - An international crime gang that ransacked ancient sites in southern Italy and trafficked stolen archaeological goods worth millions of euros …
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Da Vinci's Mona Lisa sells for 552,500 euros
PARIS - A 17th-century copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was sold on Tuesday at Sotheby’s auction house in Paris for 552,500 euros ($611,950),…
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'Invisible' Bosnians born of wartime rape use art to find their voice
SARAJEVO - Ajna Jusic, the first baby to be registered as born of rape during the Bosnian war in the 1990s, describes to a packed Sarajevo theatre t…
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Paris mounts first Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition in three decades
An exhibition showing the works of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, famed for his portrayal of Paris’s cafes, brothels, and cabarets at the end of …
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Banksy's chimp-depicting 'Devolved Parliament' sells for over $12 million
A large Banksy painting depicting primates sitting in Britain’s parliament sold for more than $12 million on Thursday, a record price at auction for …
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MUSEUM
Banksy takes aim at British life in suburban 'homewares' shop
Banksy has set up a “homewares” store in a south London suburb, displaying politically-provocative pieces such as the Union Jack stab-proof vest he d…
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Monkey business? Banksy's primates in parliament up for auction
A Banksy painting of primates sitting in Britain’s parliament goes under the hammer next week and is expected to fetch up to $2.5 million.
“Devolved P…
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Long-lost Italian painting could fetch $6 million at French auction
A long-lost painting by a 13th-century Italian master discovered in the kitchen of an elderly French woman has been valued at up to six million euros…
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Artist displays 440 pairs of high heels for women murdered in Turkey in 2018
Turkish artist Vahit Tuna has mounted 440 pairs of high heels on the facade of a building on a busy Istanbul street, to symbolize the number of women…
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