A Qatari research group said it has stopped the illegal sale of manuscripts at major international auction houses. As a joint effort among historians at the Himaya project and the Qatar National Library, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) stopped the illegal trafficking of manuscripts in the […]
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0 Man Ray’s famed “Le Violon d’Ingres” made history Saturday when it became the most expensive photograph ever to sell at auction.The black and white image, taken in 1924 by the American surrealist artist, transforms a woman’s naked body into a violin by overlaying the picture of her back with f-holes.The […]
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0 A wooden figure from the early Roman period has been unearthed during work on the future HS2 high-speed railway line in the UK.The figure, believed to be about 2,000 years old, was recovered in July from a water-logged Roman ditch in a field in the village of Twyford, Buckinghamshire, south […]
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0 A Collapsing Art Market Will Hurt Underrepresented Artists the Most. Here’s How to Ensure Their Voices Are Not Lost Last month, as we switched off the lights at Goodman Gallery, closing our spaces alongside fellow galleries around the world in response to COVID-19, my head was spinning. I tried to […]
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0 Alison Caplan loved the Akron Art Museum in Ohio, where she worked for almost 15 years. But after raising repeated concerns about the museum’s lack of implicit bias training, she was fired last year from her position as the director of education, she said, and asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement. After […]
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0 The Contemporary Istanbul fair has named a new director: Melih İsmail İnan, who has worked with Contemporary Istanbul for nearly a decade. The fair also dated its 2020 edition, which is set to run from September 24 to 27 in the Turkish capital, and will also launch a digital iteration this year, making […]
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0 Longtime gallery owner John Driscoll, a scholar, collector, and revered art dealer, died at age 70 on Friday, April 10, from complications related to COVID-19. The gallery he led, Driscoll Babcock, confirmed the news in a statement on its website. “The family and staff of Driscoll Babcock Galleries mourn the loss […]
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0 Unlike the dead butterflies in his work, Damien Hirst is not easy to pin down. Everyone wants an interview with the richest living artist, so Hirst decided to kill 98 birds with one stone. In a four-part series on Instagram he has called “On the Psychiatrist’s Couch,” the 54-year-old YBA […]
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0 Ever since rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West visited Naoshima, the Tadao Ando-designed Japanese “art island” that’s home to three James Turrell installations, in 2018, he’s wanted to live inside the light-and-space artist’s work—literally. Now, that dream may become a reality. “Turrell designed an entire home and gave it to […]
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0 Dirk Obbink called claim about bible fragments a ‘malicious attempt’ to harm his career An international mystery concerning the alleged theft of priceless ancient papyrus biblical fragments from a collection held at Oxford University has led to the arrest of a classics professor on suspicion of theft and fraud. Dr […]
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