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Salvator Mundi will not go on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi this month, for reasons unknown

September 8, 2018

The Art Newspaper- Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi will not be unveiled at the Louvre Abu Dhabi this month as planned, the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) has announced. - Read ...

Tintoretto’s 500th anniversary takes over Venice

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September 8, 2018

Art History, Trending

The Art Newspaper - Among the celebrated painters of 16th-century Venice, Tintoretto was the most Venetian. Jacopo Robusti (around 1518-94), nicknamed “the little dyer” after his father’s cloth-dying trade, is ...

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Rolling with the punches: how the art market bounced back

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September 8, 2018

Art Market, Trending

The Art Newspaper - Ten years ago, on 15 September 2008, Damien Hirst sold £70.5m of his own work at Sotheby’s in London, a ballsy move by an artist, bypassing the usual middle-men. The same evening, Lehman Bro...

View of the National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September, 3, that was destroyed by a fire last night. Specializing in natural history and the country's oldest science center, the National Museum completed 200 years in June amid a situation of neglect. When the fire began, the visit to the museum had already been closed and four guards were in the building. The cause of the fire is still unknown. Photo: FABIO MOTTA/ESTADAO CONTEUDO (Agencia Estado via AP Images)

Protesters Decry Neglect After Brazilian Museum Fire

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September 8, 2018

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The Art Newspaper - Hours after an immense fire consumed the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, a crowd of protesters gathered in front of the wrecked institution on last night (3 September) to protest the fina...

Man hospitalised after falling in Anish Kapoor installation

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August 22, 2018

Museum News, Trending

The Art Newspaper - A visitor to the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Serralves museum in Porto was hospitalised this week after falling inside one of the British artist’s installations, which features a 2.5-metr...

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Christie’s reports record half year sales of £2.97bn

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August 22, 2018

Art Market, Trending

The Art Newspaper -Christie’s reports it has netted its highest ever half year sales total (in pounds not dollars), racking up £2.97bn — a 26% increase on last year. The previous high of £2.9bn was in 2015. The...

“Her Music, It Had a Message”: Visitors Remember Aretha Franklin at DC Museum

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August 21, 2018

Art and Culture, Museums, Trending

Hyperallergic - WASHINGTON, DC — In a country as large as the United States, there’s no way for all those mourning the recent death of beloved “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin to come together. But the National ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 4,000-year-old pottery studio

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July 24, 2018

Architecture, Art and Culture, Trending

Artsy - It’s been a busy month for Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities, from speculation about the contents of a mysterious black granite sarcophagus—three skeletons and some “mummy juice,” it turned out—to the dis...

An ancient Persian artwork that was seized at a Manhattan art fair last year will be returned to Iran

Artery

July 24, 2018

Art and Culture, Trending

Artsy - Last October, three police officers and two prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office stormed into the classy confines of the European Fine Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory on the Uppe...

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Elon Musk and artist settled their copyright dispute over an image of a farting unicorn.

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July 24, 2018

Art and Society, Trending

Artsy - The feud started in February 2017, when Musk tweeted out, “maybe my favorite mug ever,” with a link to Edward’s mug, on which he’d painted a unicorn farting energy into a car. For Edwards, whose father ...