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Cassie Packard is a Brooklyn-based art writer. (cassiepackard.com)

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How Does the FBI Art Crime Team Operate?

by Cassie Packard January 17, 2022January 14, 2022

“[The art market] provides an opportunity for people to move money in a way that they can’t with other commodities,” says FBI Special Agent Chris McKeogh.

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The Smithsonian Is Still Collecting Material Connected to the January 6 Capitol Attack

by Cassie Packard January 12, 2022January 12, 2022

Since January 7, 2021, banners, signs, flags, and stickers have been donated by members of “Operation Clean Sweep,” a concerted effort to clean up the post-riot site

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A Swiss Museum Will Relinquish Ownership of 29 Works From Gurlitt Trove

by Cassie Packard January 7, 2022January 10, 2022

The vast collection, which includes pieces by Max Beckmann, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, was originally amassed by a German dealer in Nazi-looted art.

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Auction of Key to Nelson Mandela’s Prison Cell Stirs Controversy

by Cassie Packard January 4, 2022January 4, 2022

This month, Guernsey’s will hold an online auction of memorabilia related to South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.

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Your Concise New York Art Guide for January 2022

by Cassie Packard January 2, 2022March 31, 2022

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Robert Gober, Shannon Ebner, Sherrill Roland, Suné Woods, and more.

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Wikipedia Auctions Off Some Of its History

by Cassie Packard December 30, 2021December 30, 2021

The auction offered a 2000 strawberry iMac that Wales used to develop Wikipedia, and an NFT of the first Wikipedia edit, made in 2001.

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Props from TV Show Dickinson Acquired by Emily Dickinson Museum and Harvard University

by Cassie Packard December 16, 2021December 16, 2021

Hundreds of period-appropriate set items, costumes, and paper facsimiles of Dickinson’s writings were gifted to the museums.

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25 Years Later, Nez Perce Tribe Is Repaid for Buying Back Its Own Artifacts

by Cassie Packard December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

In 1996, Nez Perce Tribe members had to fundraise hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay the Ohio History Connection to secure artifacts that were rightfully theirs.

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Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2021

by Cassie Packard November 30, 2021December 1, 2021

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.

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Gee’s Bend Quilts, Purvis Young Works, and More Enter Five University Collections

by Cassie Packard November 30, 2021November 30, 2021

Thirty artworks entered the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the RISD Museum, and the Hampton University Museum.

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Catherine the Great’s Pro-Vaccination Letter Heads to Auction

by Cassie Packard November 30, 2021November 30, 2021

The sovereign led a mass vaccination campaign against smallpox that laid the groundwork for over two million Russians to be inoculated against the deadly disease

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An Archive Traces the History of Anti-Semitism Across Europe

by Cassie Packard November 19, 2021November 21, 2021

The archive includes some 15,000 objects and ephemera, ranging from anti-Semitic postcards and playing cards to concentration camp currency and food ration cards.

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