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Banksy Painting Sells for $10M, Surpassing Its High Estimate
Banksy’s “Show Me The Monet” (2005), a riff on Monet’s paintings of his Japanese bridge in Giverny, has achieved the second-highest price ever paid for a work by the street artist.
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A Dana Schutz Portrait of Trump Just Sold For More Than $711,000
The painting of Trump ominously descending an escalator on the day he announced his presidential campaign was sold by Phillips in London today.
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Activists Stand Trial for Protest in French Museum Over Plundered Artifacts
Members of a Pan-African group stood trial in Paris on charges of attempted theft for an action staged at the city’s Quai Branly Museum.
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Banksy Loses Trademark Case to Greeting Card Company
The European Union Intellectual Property Office ruled that the street artist, who remains anonymous, could not be identified as the unquestionable owner of his "Flower Thrower" stencil.
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Less Than a Quarter of Public Statues in the UK Honor Women, Study Says
Public statues of women in the country just barely outnumber those of men named John, a new study has found.
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Ava DuVernay Partners With Gallery for Exhibition Benefitting Law Enforcement Accountability Organization
The partnership with Signature African Art will present a two-part exhibition of work by artists reflecting on the African diaspora.
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British Museum Will Move Bust of its Founding Donor, a Colonialist and Slaveowner
Sir Hans Sloane’s bust will be moved from prominent display to a secure cabinet alongside artifacts explaining his work in the context of the British empire.
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Banksy Grafitti in London Underground Accidentally Removed by Cleaners
An employee of the London Tube noticed "some sort of ‘rat thing’" a few days ago and cleaned it off.
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Statue of Black Lives Matter Activist Replaces Toppled Monument of Enslaver
Artist Marc Quinn covertly installed a sculpture of activist Jen Reid in place of a bronze of Edward Colston toppled by protesters in Bristol last month.
Opinion
Addressing the British Museum’s Colonial History and Hollow Solidarity With Black Lives
“I am disappointed that it took the death of an unarmed Black man for you to join the conversation about the colonial past and present of the British Museum,” says Bayryam Mustafa Bayryamali in a letter addressed to director Hartwig Fischer.
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2020 Turner Prize Is Canceled; Tate Will Instead Distribute £100,000 to 10 Artists
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers of the Turner Prize will forego this year's edition and award cash prizes to 10 British artists instead.
In Brief
Banksy’s Latest Is an Ode to Healthcare Workers in the UK
The framed painting is now hanging in the Southampton General Hospital. It will be auctioned this fall, with proceeds benefiting the National Health Service.