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

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 …

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

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 …

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Gagosian to Show New Jordan Wolfson Works at His First Show With the Gallery in New York

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

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 …

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

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 …

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Kit Fitzgerald, Pioneering Video Artist With a Painter’s Sensibility, Has Died at 73

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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Prosecutor Opens War Crimes Investigation For Illegal Archaeological Dig in Occupied Crimea, With Artifacts Turned Over to the Hermitage

View of the Hermitage from the square with the Alexander Column, at dawn. St. Petersburg, Russia. Getty Images The prosecutor’s office of the republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol is investigating two unnamed researchers, one of them associated with the Hermitage, for war crimes. The prosecutors say they participated in illegal archaeological expeditions …

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Sale of a “Stunning” UK Fossil Collection to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi Sparks Controversy

An ammonite fossil at Lyme Regis in Dorset, England. Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. A “stunning” British collection of 318 Jurassic fossils has been sold to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi in what some have described as a loss to the nation, the Guardian reports. The items were collected by UK fossil …

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