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Caddy Crush

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 BRIEF
art, automotive, New York, race

Kevin Beasley, a contemporary Black artist, claims in court that Bayview Auto Wreckers secretly swapped a less expensive Cadillac Escalade out for the 2008 model that he had hired them to crush as part of an art installation.

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Arts Entertainment International 

Rarely Seen Van Gogh Painting Exhibited Ahead of Auction

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
art, auctions

A rare painting by Dutch impressionist master Vincent van Gogh of a street scene in the Parisian neighborhood of Montmartre will be publicly displayed for the first time before its auction next month.

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Arts Environment International 

Kangaroo Painting Australia’s Oldest Aboriginal Rock Art

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
art, Australia, history

A kangaroo painting created over 17,000 years ago by Aboriginal artists has been identified — with a little help from some ancient wasps — as Australia’s oldest intact rock art.

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Arts International 

Norway Museum: Munch Wrote ‘Madman’ Sentence on ‘The Scream’

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
art, museums, Norway

Norway’s National Museum says a small, barely visible sentence written with a pencil on Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” was penned by the Norwegian painter himself.

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Arts International Technology 

Famed Medieval Bayeux Tapestry Goes Online — Every Thread

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
art, France, history, museums

The world-famous medieval Bayeux Tapestry may be off-limits to visitors because of the coronavirus pandemic, but its keepers have put a digital version online so the public can enjoy its fabled cloth from the safety of home.

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Appeals Arts Civil Rights International 

Germany, Hungary Prevail at High Court in Holocaust Treasure Case

February 3, 2021February 4, 2021 ALEXANDRA JONES
art, Germany, heirs, history, Hungary, museums, U.S. Supreme Court, World War II

These 2014 photos show (left) the 13th century medieval Dome Reliquary and (right) a medieval cross, artifacts belonging to the

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Appeals Arts Civil Rights Criminal International 

Europe Court Faults Turkey Over British Artist’s Conviction

February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
art, European Court of Human Rights, protests, Turkey

The European Court of Human Rights said Tuesday that Turkey violated a British artist’s freedom of speech by convicting him of “insulting” Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he was prime minister.

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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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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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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 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 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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Entertainment International 

New Phallus Sculpture Appears in Bavarian Mountains

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
art, Germany, mountains

Just days after a large phallus sculpture mysteriously disappeared from a Bavarian mountainside, a similar wooden carving has appeared in its place, German news agency dpa reported Thursday.

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Arts Education 

Civil War Art

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 BRIEF
art, slavery, Vermont

An artist whose murals at Vermont Law School depict the state’s efforts to help free slaves leading up to the Civil War is suing the school for painting over his work at the demand of students who found the murals offensive.

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