Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary evening sale in London generated more than £62.5 million, an iota shy of the auction’s £66 million high estimate. courtesy Sotheby’s In the hour before Sotheby’s kicked off its midseason Modern and Contemporary evening sale in London Tuesday, a group of specialists huddled together outside The Windmill, a pub around the …
Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. Courtesy AFP via Getty Images If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, now is your chance! In an effort to raise funds to support France’s endangered religious landmarks and heritage sites, the medieval Catholic cathedral is raffling off around 50 stones from the iconic …
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The painting, titled ‘Elimar,’ came fire from experts who argued it is by Danish artist, Henning Elimar. But LMI has come out fighting. Courtesy LMI Group International New York-based art research firm LMI International has come out fighting following the backlash it faced last month, when it claimed a painting titled Elimar bought at a …
Scene 32 of the Bayeux Tapestry showing men staring at Halley’s Comet. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons A fragment of the Medieval Bayeux Tapestry has been found at the Schleswig-Holstein State archive in northern Germany, the Canberra Times reported. The famous embroidered tapestry depicts the Norman invasion of England by the Duke of Normandy in 1066. It …
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A protest at the White House in February. Photo Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federal organization that provides funding to many major arts centers across the US. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, the ACLU’s Rhode Island offshoot …
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The Stonewall National Museum, Archives, and Library. Courtesy Stonewall National Museum The Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library in South Florida claims that that state and federal anti-LGBTQ policies have siphoned off the institution’s operating budget and scared off corporate investors, leaving the museum in financial peril. “This is stretching into places that we really …
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Mildred Thompson, Music of the Spheres: Mars, 1996. ©The Mildred Thompson Estate/Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. This spring, it’s Paris calling. The French capital’s recent art history is the subject of two monumental surveys—one at the Centre Pompidou, the other at the Singaporean National Gallery of Art—that respectively focus on Black and Asian émigrés who …
Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) this week announced the return of Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda to Nepal, acknowledging that the 12th-century sculpture was stolen from Guita Bahi in the Kathmandu Valley. The decision follows new provenance research and collaboration …
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Rendering of the building for the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Courtesy Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. On Friday, famed film director George Lucas and businesswoman Mellody Hobson, co-founders of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, announced that director and CEO Sandra Jackson-Dumont will step down April 1. In the joint …
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Jack Vettriano has passed away. David Levenson/Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BAYEUX TAPESTRY DISCOVERY. A fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry has been discovered in a northern German estate, reports the Australian Associated Press and Newcastle Herald. The nearly 230-foot long, 20-inch tall, 11th-century embroidered tapestry depicts …
