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Cartoonist Quits France’s Le Monde in Free Speech Row

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
cartoons and animation, Free Speech, newspapers, scandal, sex abuse

A leading French cartoonist on Wednesday said he would no longer work for Le Monde after the newspaper apologized for a cartoon he drew that tackled a sex-abuse scandal.

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Arts Criminal International 

Italian Police Find Stolen Copy of Leonardo ‘Salvator Mundi’

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
art, churches, Italy, theft

Italian police have recovered a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century “Salvator Mundi” painting of Jesus Christ that was stolen from a Naples church during the pandemic without the priests even realizing it was gone.

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Arts Business Government 

Stop Auctioning!

January 19, 2021January 20, 2021 BRIEF
art, auctions, New York

A New York attorney representing himself accuses the state of letting at least three museums unload artwork to raise operating funds — a violation of laws put in place after the Great Recession led to similar auctions that deprived New Yorkers of enjoying cultural treasures.

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Arts International Religion 

Lebanon Returns Two Stolen 18th-Century Icons to Greece

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
art, auctions, Christianity, Greece

Lebanon handed back two 18th-century religious icons of Jesus and Mary to Greece on Tuesday after they were seized during an auction, a judicial source said.

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Appeals Arts Entertainment 

Copyright Battle Over Stephen King’s ‘Dark Tower’ Hits 11th Circuit

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 KAYLA GOGGIN
11th circuit, books, Copyright

The copyright holder of a ‘70s comic book hero asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to revive a lawsuit accusing bestselling author Stephen King of cribbing elements of the character to create the famous gunslinger protagonist of “The Dark Tower” book series.

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Arts Entertainment International 

Tintin Comic Book Art Breaks Auction Record at $3.1 Million

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
auctions, cartoons and animation, France

A Tintin drawing by the Belgian artist Herge sold Thursday in Paris for 2.6 million euros ($3.1 million), breaking the record for the most expensive comic book art in history.

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Arts International 

Germany Says It Has Handed Over 14 Works From Gurlitt Trove

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
art, Germany, history, Nazi

German authorities have now handed over all 14 works from the art trove accumulated by late collector Cornelius Gurlitt that so far were proven to have been looted under Nazi rule, the government said Wednesday.

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Appeals Arts 

Seuss-Star Trek Mash-Up Crashes and Burns at Ninth Circuit

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 BIANCA BRUNO
Copyright, fair use, Ninth Circuit

“Victory is life” not for Star Trek, but for Dr. Seuss, whose publisher emerged victorious Friday in a copyright fight at the Ninth Circuit over the children’s classic “Oh, the Places You’ll Go.”

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Arts Criminal International 

‘Priceless’ Haul of Over 27,000 Artifacts Seized in France

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
artifacts, France, history, treasure

French authorities have seized a “priceless” haul of over 27,000 archaeological artifacts ranging from Bronze Age bracelets to Roman coins that had been secretly amassed by a single person in the east of the country, customs said Wednesday.

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Arts Entertainment International 

Rebuilt Prussian Palace, Scarred by History, Opens in Berlin

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
artifacts, Germany, history, museums, treasure

A reconstructed Prussian palace will open in Berlin on Wednesday as a museum complex housing colonial artifacts, just as debate is gathering pace around the return of treasures plundered from abroad.

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Arts Government International 

Shackleton Expedition Artifacts to Be Donated to UK Museums

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
artifacts, exports, museums, United Kingdom

A sled and flag used in one of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s famed expeditions to the South Pole have been bought by a British government-funded body to keep the treasured artifacts in the U.K.

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Arts International 

Dutch Court Refuses to Return Painting to Jewish Heirs

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
art, auctions, Holocaust, Netherlands, restitution

A Dutch court on Wednesday rejected a restitution case brought by heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned a painting by Wassily Kandinsky that was bought by the city of Amsterdam at an auction in 1940.

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Arts Entertainment 

Pop Songs

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 BRIEF
conversion, Michigan, musicians, privacy

A Michigan man claims in state court that pop star Lizzo recorded his singing voice at a private funeral and used it without permission in her song “Coconut Oil” from her 2016 debut album.

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Arts Employment Government International Politics 

Denmark’s Top Art School Head Sacked Over Royal Bust Stunt

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
art, culture, Denmark, history, museums, slavery, termination

The head of Denmark’s top art school has been sacked over the drowning of a bust of a former king in a Copenhagen canal, the culture ministry said Monday.

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Arts International 

Precious Painting Lost at German Airport Found at Dumpster

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
airports, art

A surrealist painting worth more than a quarter million dollars that was forgotten by a businessman at Duesseldorf’s airport has been recovered from a nearby recycling dumpster, police said Thursday.

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Arts Business International 

Indian Couple Help Traditional Artisans Get Back to Business

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
art, India, internet, retail

Most artisans live in far-flung parts of vast India. With markets and exhibitions closed by the pandemic, many had no way to reach customers. Now they can register on the Direct Create platform to showcase their work.

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Appeals Arts Civil Rights 

Nazi-Looted Art

December 7, 2020December 8, 2020 BRIEF
art, museums, Nazi, Ninth Circuit

The Ninth Circuit denied a family’s request to rehear its suit against a Spanish museum over a Camille Pissaro painting stolen from the family by Nazis.

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Appeals Arts International 

Treasure Sold During Holocaust Fought Over at High Court

December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 MEGAN MINEIRO
artifacts, history, Holocaust, jurisdiction, museums, U.S. Supreme Court, World War II

A yearslong battle over a medieval collection sold to the Nazis in 1935, now estimated to be worth a quarter of a billion dollars, brought the heirs of Jewish art dealers to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.

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Appeals Arts Civil Rights International 

High Court to Decide Whether Nazi Art Case Stays in US Court

December 5, 2020December 7, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
art, Germany, history, museums, Nazi, U.S. Supreme Court

Jed Leiber was an adult before he learned that his family was once part-owner of a collection of centuries-old religious artworks now said to be worth at least $250 million.

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Arts Entertainment National 

California Monolith Pops Up After Finds in Utah, Romania

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
art, California, parks

Days after the discovery and swift disappearance of two shining metal monoliths half a world apart, another towering structure has popped up and then quickly vanished, this time from the pinnacle of a trail in California.

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