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Looters Kill Two Guards at Ancient Egyptian Necropolis
Two guards at the Dayr al-Barsha archaeological site in Middle Egypt were killed by looters during a foiled robbery this weekend.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a dog sculpture goes missing in Albuquerque, meth smugglers hide drugs in art supplies, and an artist sues Wu-Tang Clan and Martin Shkreli.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Facebook censored Evelyne Axell's 1964 Pop art painting "Ice Cream," a badger uncovered a trove of Bronze Age artifacts near Stonehenge, and Ann Freedman and the Knoedler Gallery settled a lawsuit brought by collectors who bought a fake Mark Rothko painting from the gallery.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an art dealer was accused of flogging forgeries, Airbnb renters stole their hosts' Banksy print, and Egyptian authorities arrested three men for selling chunks of the Giza pyramids to tourists.
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Michelangelo Worked Through Acute Arthritis in His Later Years, New Study Says
An article published this week by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine suggests that Michelangelo Buonaroti suffered from osteoarthritis for the last 15 years of his life.
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Damien Hirst Is Building a Batcave Beneath His Historic London Mansion
Damien "World's Richest Living Artist" Hirst is expanding his historic home facing London's tony Regent's Park, though you won't notice much of a change at street level.
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Saudi Arabia Downgrades Poet's Death Sentence to 8 Years in Jail and 800 Lashes
A court in Saudi Arabia has overturned the death sentence given to Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh last November on charges of publicly renouncing Islam, but the new terms of his punishment are also extremely savage.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a disgraced antiquities dealer's stash of loot was discovered, a fake Picasso was seized by Turkish police, and a stolen portrait of R2-D2 was returned.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: eight museum workers charged over King Tut's botched beard, thieves drive off with a trailer full of blue-chip art, and sculptures of a heart, a cheetah, and a hockey-playing beaver go missing.
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Crunching the Numbers Behind the Boom in Private Art Museums
What kind of person opens a private contemporary art museum?
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Introducing the New Koch Zero: Billionaire Leaves American Natural History Museum Board
The billionaire businessman David H. Koch has left his position on the board of trustees of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) after serving on it for 23 years.
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After Auction House Censorship, Reporters Without Borders Cancels Benefit Art Sale
An art auction intended to benefit the organization Reporters Without Borders has been canceled after the Israeli embassy in Paris complained about one of the featured works.