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Ancient Artifacts Worth $2.2 M. Recovered by Manhattan DA’s Office Will Be Returned to Greece and Italy

The Apulian Volute Krater was recovered from a private collection in 2024. Courtesy of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office The Manhattan District Attorney‘s Office recently announced the recovery of two groups of ancient artifacts which would be returned to Greece and Italy. A repatriation ceremony took place on February 25 for eleven ancient Greek artifacts, …

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Larry Gagosian Talked the Future with CBS: ‘I’m Not Ready to Pass the Reins’

Larry Gagosian was recently featured on the CBS Sunday Morning. Van Tine Dennis/Sipa USA CBS Sunday Morning recently aired a profile of gallery owner Larry Gagosian and how the 80-year-old art dealer navigates the “brutal business” while overseeing 18 locations around the world. The seven-minute segment aired on CBS Sunday Morning on February 23. Early …

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Blink-182 Cofounder Mark Hoppus to Sell $5 M. Banksy Painting at Sotheby’s in London

Black gold: Mark Hoppus next to Banksy’s ‘Crude Oil (Vettriano).’ Sotheby’s. A rare, hand-painted work by Banksy from the collection of Blink-182’s cofounder and bassist Mark Hoppus will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London on March 4. The painting, titled Crude Oil (Vettriano) and completed in 2005, has a high estimate of £5 …

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Art Forgery Workshop Making Fake Picassos Busted by Police in Rome

A workshop uncovered by police in Rome that was used to produce fake artworks works sold online. Courtesy Carabinieri A workshop outside Rome containing 71 fake paintings falsely attributed to famous artists including Rembrandt van Rijn, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol has been raided by Italy’s art crime squad, local authorities announced. The operation was …

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After Halted London Fair Suffers Profit Loss, CEO Departs as Owner MCH Group Looks to Rebrand

BASEL, SWITZERLAND – JUNE 16: A general view of the atmosphere at day four of Art Basel 2023 at Messe Basel on June 16, 2023 in Basel, Switzerland. Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty Ima Lucie Kitchener, the CEO of stalled design fair Masterpiece London, known for showing works by antique dealers and designers, stepped down from the …

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Christie’s is Selling a Fresh-to-Market Auerbach Painting Once Owned by Aristocratic WWII Code-Breaker

Auerbach’s ‘Nude on Bed III’ has a high estimate of over $1 million. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2025 Christie’s is selling a fresh-to-market Frank Auerbach painting that was once owned by a British aristocrat who worked for the highly secret Y-Service during World War II. Titled Nude on Bed III and painted in 1961, the work …

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London’s Barbican Center to Transform Its Underground Car Park into a Rave Space for New Exhibition

Trans Voices, the world’s first professional trans+ vocal collective, has teamed up with ILĀ and spatial sound art studio MONOM. Zachary Hertzman/MONOM London’s Barbican Center is transforming one of its underground car parks into a rave space for the new “multi-sensory” exhibition “Feel the Sound,” which will explore the relationship between sound, movement, and the human body. Running from …

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Artists Send Letter Criticizing Trump’s Anti-DEI Policy, Lisa Schiff’s Regrets, Frieze New York Releases Gallery List: Morning Links for February 19, 2025

Any regrets?: Disgraced art advisor Lisa Schiff. Photo Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines NEA PROTEST LETTER. Over 460 artists sent a letter to the National Endowment for the Arts on Tuesday protesting funding limitations following President Donald Trump’s executive orders barring funding …

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Khaled Sabsabi Will Not Be Reinstated as Australia’s Venice Biennale Representative

Khaled Sabsabi. Photo Anna Kucera Artist Khaled Sabsabi will not be reinstated as the Australian representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale. He was dropped as the country’s representative earlier this month alongside curator Michael Dagostino, spurring an international controversy. The chair of Creative Australia, Robert Morgan, and its executive director, Adrian Collette, announced the decision …

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Civil Liberty Organizations Demand that Police Return Controversial Sally Mann Photographs

Photographer Sally Mann relaxes with her dog Honey in a meadow of tall grass on her farm near Lexington, Virginia. Photo Michael Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images Three civil liberty organizations are demanding the return of photographs by artist Sally Mann after they were confiscated from an exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of …

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