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Homecoming. At a news conference in Rome on Monday, Italian officials took a bit of a winning lap, showcasing 60 ancient artifacts that were illegally smuggled out of the country and then confiscated. Associated Press report. Items include a fresco from Herculaneum, the City of Doom, a terracotta Etruscan cilix, and many more, all worth over $20 million. “What we are presenting today are the achievements of international cooperation, but much still needs to be done on this front,” said the Italian Minister of Culture. Gennaro San Giulianoaccording to the Guardian, said. CNN Most of the materials reportedly come from the collection of New York investors. Michael Steinhardthanded over 180 looted antiques in the 2021 deal Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
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artist space. uncontrollable jenkin van zil is currently showing at Edel Assanti London, where he lives and works, Guardian Talked about setting himself on fire for his first film. “This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever done,” he said. But he got the shot.Benin cargo collector George Adéagbo talked with Smithsonian Magazine about his tribute abraham lincolncurrently displayed in President Lincoln’s Cottage Washington DC free-thinking German sculptor Tobias Rehberger chatted with south china morning post About his diverse output and artistic philosophy. “My hope is that art should be the art of our everyday life, not the exception, and not something we just go and see and turn around and go home. We need art in our kitchens, garages and cars,” says Rehberger. Listen, listen!
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critic Roberta Smith asked a question to Metropolitan Museum of Artdecision to accept 220 gifts of Philip Guston A work containing 96 paintings from the artist’s daughter, Musa Gaston Mayer“It effectively and symbolically consumes too much oxygen in the room,” Smith wrote. [The New York Times]
Six finalists have been named in a Los Angeles competition to create a memorial to the 1871 Chinese Massacre in which at least 18 Chinese men were murdered. Artists who are part of the selected team will Candace Lynn, Sze Tsung Nicholas Leon, Anna So Hoiothers. [Los Angeles Times]
curator Anthony Huberman was appointed director of John Giorno Foundation Art Space Artistic Director, trench, the lower Manhattan loft where Giorno lived and worked as an artist and poet.Hooverman arrives Wattis Museum of Contemporary Arthe has been a director for 10 years. [Artforum]
2025 Curator Team hawaii triennale Composed of independent curators Wassan al-Kudairi; Binna Choiwho Kasco Art Institute Utrecht in the Netherlands.When Noel MKY Kahanuan independent curator who is a member of the faculty of University of Hawaii at Manoa. [Press Release/Hawai’i Contemporary]
a respected sculptor Reinhard Mucha is the subject of a vast exhibition in Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in his hometown of Düsseldorf, Germany. Billed as Mucha’s first major exhibition since a doubleheader in Switzerland in 1987, it includes over 60 works, many of which have not been seen in years. [Designboom]
of North Dakota Museum of Art Launched a GoFundMe campaign to replace sculptures in Grand Forks. Elizabeth Macdonald He disappeared from the premises in late October. [Grand Forks Herald]
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rules for living. artist Oh You-Ama Korean figurative painter who was one of the stars of 2022 Busan Biennaleprofiled by E. Tammy Kim in the New YorkerOh, now 84, didn’t start painting full-time until he was in his 60s. Before that, I was a handyman at a nunnery in Busan. With an understated and precise style, he conjures up numerous scenes from Korean history and modern life in his photographs, but there is one thing he does not depict. “I never take self-portraits of him,” he told Kim. “If you do, you will die early.” [The New Yorker]
