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Eric Adams Aide Sought China-Themed Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum
A new report details how Winnie Greco asked the museum to host a show about Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen — with a month-long turnaround time.
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Emily Carr Painting Found at Barn Sale Could Sell for $147K
Art dealer Allen Treibitz purchased the work for $50 in the Hamptons.
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Famous “Nefertiti Bust” Belongs in Egypt, Not Germany, Says Petition
An online letter asking for the repatriation of one of Ancient Egypt’s best-known sculptures has drawn nearly 10,000 signatures.
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Original Art Stimulates the Brain More Than Reproductions, Study Finds
Five artworks induced stronger positive responses in 20 participants in the Netherlands than museum shop posters of the same works.
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City Project to “Beautify” New York’s Chinatown Draws Criticism From Community
“Has anyone asked for pretty art on the police barricades?” Amy Chin, a board member of the nonprofit Think!Chinatown, told Hyperallergic.
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Inconspicuous Church Painting Turns Out to Be by Botticelli’s Studio
The work was long believed to be a more recent replica of a 16th-century work by the Renaissance master.
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Paris Museum Apologizes for Contentious Tibetan Artifact Labels
The Musée du Quai Branly promised to rectify its labels and website language that trades “Tibet” for “Xizang” — a term propagated by the Chinese government.
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NYC’s Rubin Museum Faces Repatriation Demands Ahead of Closure
The local activist group Our Ancestors Say No is calling for the return of Tibetan and Himalayan objects including a Buddhist Shrine Room set to be relocated to the Brooklyn Museum.
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Mysterious Nude Effigy of Trump Appears in Las Vegas
The massive sculpture was deplored by the Republican party and was taken down less than a week before it was ordered to be removed.
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Wendy Red Star and Ebony G. Patterson Among 2024 MacArthur Fellows
Tony Cokes and Justin Vivian Bond also won the no-strings-attached $800,000 grant.
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Portrait Found by Junk Dealer May Be Picasso Original
The painting was discovered more than half a century ago when Luigi Lo Rosso was scavenging the basement of an Italian home for goods to sell.
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Hurricane Helene Obliterates Asheville’s River Arts District
The city and its artists were hard-hit by the storm that tore a deadly path of destruction from Florida through inland Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.