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Interest in art’s benefit to health grows as Wales and Greece take major steps

Global interest in the health benefits of the arts is gaining momentum with more governments recognising that creativity ...
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Sotheby’s partners with the Virgil Abloh Foundation to sell a set of rare prints to fund university scholarships

The pieces come from a beloved 2015 collaboration between Abloh and his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
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An expert’s guide to Gustave Courbet: five must-read books on the French painter

The best Courbet publications, from a comprehensive monograph to a look at how he was “a skilful media strategist”—selected by the curators Sonja Pizonka and Anna Brohm ...
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When two become one: the complex dance of museum mergers

The Neue Galerie’s merger with the Met—the world’s fourth-largest museum—serves as a recent example of a smaller US ...
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Raven Halfmoon brings her giant doubles to Ballroom Marfa

It’s important to know where you come from,” the artist Raven Halfmoon said during the opening of her exhibition Flags of Our ...
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Experts blame extensive earthquake damage in Venezuela on decades of government neglect

Venezuela is still reeling from the death of more than 3,000 people caused by the two major earthquakes that struck on 24 ...
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Man jailed as Sotheby’s due diligence foils antiquities fraud

Andrew Crowley, based in Bristol in the UK, has been sentenced for trying to sell statues with forged provenance documents ...
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Can a Riga fair foster a new generation of collectors in Latvia?

Nascent” might be the best description of the art market in the Latvian capital of Riga, where the second edition of Riga ...
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National Gallery in London adds to its collection of women artists with Angelica Kauffman donation

A painting by the 18th-century artist was given to the museum by Dallas-based collectors Richard and Luba Barrett, alongside ...
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Hoard of stolen documents—including logbook of the ‘saviour of the Netherlands’—recovered by art detective

A trove of historic documents that were stolen from the Netherlands’ National Archives in The Hague has been recovered by an art detective. The 25 items, which include documents listed on Unesco’s ...
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Researchers at Art Gallery of Ontario identify painter and subject of 18th-century portrait of Black woman

Both the painter and the sitter of a portrait of a young woman of colour purchased at auction by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 2020 have finally been identified after lots of digging, a little ...
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Comment | American museum expansions must go beyond glass and steel to serve modern audiences

While increasing their built footprints, US museums also need to expand their accessibility to the public. By failing to do so they risk blowing a chance to democratise new spaces at a critical time ...