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German Museum Will Keep Pissarro in Settlement with Heir of Persecuted Owner

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Bremen’s Kunsthalle. dpa/picture alliance via Getty I After nearly a decade of negotiations, a Pissarro painting sold under duress by a Jewish family during the Second World War will remain in a German museum as part of a settlement. The agreement stipulates that the Kunsthalle Bremen, which has owned the painting Le Repos (Girl Lying …

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UNESCO Grants New Protections to Lebanese Heritage Sites Imperiled by War with Israel

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BAALBEK, LEBANON – 2024/11/06: Concerns have grown that the ancient Roman temple complex in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, could get damaged by Israeli attacks. In September Israel launched one of the most intense aerial assaults in contemporary history on Lebanon. (Photo by Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett UNESCO has placed 34 …

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Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Returns More Than 1,400 Antiquities Worth $10 M. to India

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Celestial Dancer was on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until 2023. Courtesy of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The Manhattan District Attorney‘s Office has announced the return of 1,440 artifacts, collectively valued at $10 million, to India. The items were recovered as part of ongoing investigations into criminal trafficking networks, including ones linked …

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Director Removed from Top Post After Staff Complaints

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Stephanie Stebich. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune Stephanie Stebich, the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) since 2017, was reassigned to a senior advisory role within the Smithsonian Institution in September 2024 after staff complaints about her management style. According to a report by the Washington Post, the move came after a July 2023 letter …

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Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘Night Watch’ is Underway in a Glass Chamber at the Rijksmuseum

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After years of research, restorers are now removing the varnish from Rembrandt’s most famous painting. courtesy Rijksmuseum The second phase of the Rijksmuseum’s Operation Night Watch, the largest research and restoration project ever undertaken for Rembrandt’s 1642 masterpiece – The Night Watch – is in motion. On Tuesday, a team of eight restorers at Amsterdam’s national museum …

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Anna Weyant Graces the Cover of ‘Vogue’ with a Portrait of Kaia Gerber

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Kaia Gerber at the 2024 LACMA Art+Film Gala at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California. Photo Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images One of two alternative covers of the Vogue December 2024 issue may look strikingly familiar to art world audiences, who may recognize it as the work of Canadian artist Anna Weyant. …

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More Consigners to the New York Sales, Revealed!

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The sales floor of Christie’s new Hong Kong operation. Courtesy Lawrence Fung With the US presidential election behind us and the marquee New York evening sales just a few days away, collectors, advisors, and all manner of art world professionals have been combing through the full list of auction house offerings, ARTnews included.  This November, works by …

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Frieze’s Owner Endeavor Reports Higher Q3 Losses After Disclosing Potential Sale of Art Fair

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People visit the Frieze Seoul 2022 art fair in Seoul on September 2, 2022.. AFP via Getty Images Endeavor Group Holdings, the Hollywood entertainment company that owns the Frieze art fair and media franchise, reported a loss of $420.36 million for the third quarter, a sharp increase from the $116 million loss recorded in the …

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