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Bronze relics found near the town of Marzabotto. Courtesy Marzabotto National Etruscan Museum Archaeologists working in northern Italy excavated “remarkably well-preserved” bronze artifacts from a well dating back to the ancient Etruscan city of Kainua. As reported by Heritage Daily, “Bronze figures buried at the bottom of an ancient well for nearly two and a …

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. F. M. Kearney/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Some of New York’s most prominent cultural institutions reportedly are getting off the hook on paying fines for fire code violations. Gothamistreports that the city is not collecting fines from institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum …

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Getty Images Minneapolis police have identified one of two people they believe stole roughly $80,000 worth of artwork from the studio of 80-year-old artist Leon Hushcha, in a burglary that involved a UPS vest, a handcart, and, apparently, another artist. Ricardo Andres Bassat, 56, has been charged with felony burglary and is due …

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The eight Matisse “Jazz” prints displayed at Mario de Andrade Public Library in São Paulo after their recent recovery. Photo by Nelson Almeida / AFP via Getty Images Brazilian authorities have recovered eight prints from Henri Matisse’s iconic “Jazz” series (1947), the New York Times reports.   Two armed men stole the works on December …

Brazilian Police Recover Eight Stolen Matisse ‘Jazz’ Works Worth $193,000, Arrest One Suspect Read More »

At top left is an image generated by a model trained on public domain artwork created by 744 artists. The others are a sampling of images that would have been generated had any one of the 744 artists been omitted from the training set. Courtesy of Zheng Dai and David K. Gifford. A new study …

MIT Study Finds that AI-Generated Images Often Can’t Be Traced Back to Their Sources Read More »

Garbage at 12th Street and Avenue B. Bettmann/Getty Images Gagosian sent out a decidedly sparse press release about Jordan Wolfson’s first show with the gallery in New York, set to open September 18 at its 555 West 24th Street space in Chelsea. The description of the new work to be shown reads, in its entirety: …

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Papyrus fragment with lines from Homer’s Odyssey, ca. 285–250 BCE. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art Likely prompted by the runaway success of a certain classically oriented movie in theaters this summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned the oldest preserved fragment of The Odyssey to one of its galleries, where it can be …

The Met Has Put the Oldest Existing Copy of the Odyssey on Display Read More »

A page from the Van Eeghen Drawing Book. Courtesy Rijksmuseum A book of immaculate drawings that has been stewarded by the Van Eeghen family in the Netherlands for more than three centuries has been donated to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where it will go on view starting August 19. In a press release, the museum …

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Jonathan Carver Moore Photo by Kari Orvic Jonathan Carver Moore says he cashed in his own retirement account to start his gallery on the edge of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood in 2023. He has mounted strong presentations at art fairs from Chicago to Miami. But artists, collectors and dealers say he has been guilty of …

Artists, Collectors, Dealers Accuse San Francisco Dealer Jonathan Carver Moore of Nonpayment Read More »

Artist Kit Fitzgerald (1953-2026). Courtesy Peter Gordon Kit Fitzgerald, a visionary video artist with a sense for the music and motion of painting, died on August 3 at 73. The news was announced by her husband and longtime creative partner, Peter Gordon, on Instagram. He wrote that she “fought a rare and aggressive cancer, but …

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