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- The Guardian(UK) 20:50January 12, 2022Newcastle museum to return Benin bronze staveMove by Great North Museum: Hancock is latest in number of repatriations that put pressure on British Museum to follow suitA Benin bronze in the collection of a Newcastle museum is to be proactively returned to Nigeria, the latest in a number of repatriations that ratchet up pressure on the British Museum to follow suit.Bosses of the Great North Museum: Hancock announced that it had recently been established that a brass stave with a distinctive bird finial had been looted from Benin City by the British military in 1897. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian 18:23January 5, 2022Italy returns Parthenon fragment to Greece amid UK row over marblesLoan deal could renew pressure on Britain to repatriate ancient Parthenon marbles to AthensItaly is returning a fragment belonging to the Parthenon’s eastern frieze to Greece in a breakthrough deal that could renew pressure on Britain to repatriate the 2,500-year-old Parthenon marbles removed by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century.The marble fragment, which depicts the foot of a goddess, either Peitho or Artemis, peeking out from beneath an elaborate tunic, is currently held at the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Palermo, Sicily. It was originally bought by the University of Palermo from the widow of Robert Fagan, the British consul for Sicily and Malta, after his death in 1816. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian 18:25January 1, 2022Frozen in time: clock that tells tale of Jewish resistance in wartime AmsterdamArtefacts from hideout of family sent to Auschwitz death camp with Anne Frank and her family are put on display in NetherlandsA clock that is the sole surviving object from a second world war Jewish hideout will go on display at Amsterdam’s Dutch Resistance Museum this year.The round mantelpiece clock may have been one of the last things people saw as they were seized by the Nazis and sent to death camps. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian(UK) 11:00January 1, 2022The art of Yves Saint Laurent: design house marks 60th anniversaryFive Paris museums to display fashion designer’s creations with artwork that inspired themSimultaneous exhibitions to mark the 60th anniversary of Yves Saint Laurent’s first collection are to be held by six leading Paris museums in an unprecedented tribute from the art world to the late French fashion designer.The events at museums, among them the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay, will reveal how the celebrated couturier was inspired by some of the 20th century’s greatest artists including Picasso, Matisse and Mondrian. Continue reading...
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- FoxNews 21:01December 29, 2021Smithsonian announces four museums will close due to COVID-related staffing issuesSmithsonian announced that it will temporarily close the African Art, Postal, Anacostia and Asian Art Museums.
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- The Guardian(UK) 08:00December 10, 2021Works by Turner and Lowry gifted to British nation in 2021Paintings, archives and other items worth £52m allocated by Arts Council England to museums across UKSir Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of a Woman, JMW Turner’s Walton Bridge and LS Lowry’s painting of David Lloyd George’s birthplace in Manchester are among the dozens of items of cultural importance saved for the nation this year.Thanks to Art Council England’s cultural gifts and acceptance in lieu schemes, the paintings, archives and other items worth £52m have been accepted for the nation and allocated to museums across the UK. Continue reading...
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- Observer 21:47December 8, 2021The American Antiquities Trade is Defined By Bad ActorsBillionaire Michael Steinhardt will face no criminal charges for acquiring a collection of looted and smuggled artifacts.
< Christie's, Collectors, Larnax chest, looted artifacts, marble, museums, Sotheby's, Thailand > - The Guardian 13:05December 2, 2021Museum rivalry could make Dutch Vermeer show last of its kindRijksmuseum aims to bring together all the works by Girl with a Pearl Earring painter that are fit to travelAmsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has announced a “first and last” exhibition of all the paintings by Johannes Vermeer that are fit to travel, as its director claimed growing museum rivalry makes such international cooperation unlikely in the future.Vermeer, whose most famous work is Girl with a Pearl Earring, dating from around 1665, is thought to have painted 35 masterpieces, of which 23 were shown together 26 years ago at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. Continue reading...
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- New York Times 16:59December 1, 2021Looking Again at Amy Winehouse, 10 Years After Her DeathIn “Amy: Beyond the Stage,” the Design Museum in London explores — and tries to somewhat reframe — the “Back to Black” singer’s life and legacy.
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- The Guardian 13:00November 21, 2021‘It was terrifying’: ancient book’s journey from Irish bog to museum treasureA new book tells the story of the painstaking process to preserve the 1,200-year-old Faddan More PsalterOne summer’s day in Tipperary as peat was being dug from a bog, a button peered out from the freshly cut earth. The find set off a five-year journey of conservation to retrieve and preserve what lay beyond: a 1,200-year-old psalm book in its original cover.Bogs across Europe have thrown up all sorts of relics of the ancient past, from naturally preserved bodies to vessels containing butter more than a millennium old, but the 2006 discovery of an entire early medieval manuscript, entombed in a wet time capsule for so long, was unprecedented, said the National Museum of Ireland. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian 14:35November 13, 2021Greek prime minister tries to broker deal for return of Parthenon marblesKyriakos Mitsotakis offers to loan Greek treasures to British Museum if ‘stolen’ sculptures are returned to AcropolisThe Greek prime minister has demanded that the 2,500-year-old Parthenon marbles, which he accuses Britain of stealing, be returned to Greece, and even offered to loan some of his country’s treasures to the British Museum in an attempt to broker a deal.Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the Daily Telegraph that the sculptures, also known as the Elgin marbles, belong in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian(UK) 09:00November 10, 2021Records of 320,000 Punjab soldiers from first world war uncoveredMilitary files of Indian troops left unread in Pakistan museum for 97 years go onlineThe records of 320,000 troops from the Punjab who fought in the first world war, left unread in a basement for 97 years, have been disclosed by UK-based historians to offer new insight into the contribution of Indian soldiers to the allied war effort.Files found in the depths of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan have been digitised and uploaded on to a website in time for Armistice Day on Thursday. Continue reading...
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- Observer 22:12November 9, 2021Metropolitan Museum of Art Attendance Has Dropped by Around HalfSince the pandemic began, the Met has become far less able to rely on international travelers for ticket sales.
< American Alliance of Museums, Attendance, Metropolitam Museum of Art, Pandemic > - The Guardian 18:14October 29, 2021‘True genius’ of Fragonard revealed after restoration of The SwingRococo painting to go back on show at Wallace Collection with greater depth and detailA complex and delicate conservation process on one of the most celebrated paintings in French art history has revealed fresh vibrancy and detail that shows the artist’s “true genius”.Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing, created in 1767, was considered by many contemporaries as highly risqué for its depiction of a young woman revealing a glimpse of her undergarments from her perch in a verdant garden. Continue reading...
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