Amid a general acknowledgment of its links to a fraught local history of exploiting Indigenous peoples, the Metropolitan Museum announced today that it had installed a bronze plaque on its Fifth Avenue façade recognising the Lenape. The museum says that the move follows years of research and consultation on ways to honour the Lenape, who…
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The American artist James Turrell will unveil a new Skyspace this summer in the foothills of Pikes Peak in Colorado. The work will be installed on a hillside in Green Mountain Falls, a bucolic town near Colorado Springs. The work—one of more than 100 of the artist’s signature light chambers with ceiling apertures open to the sky—will…
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A statue looted from Libya in 2011 has been handed over to the Libyan Embassy in London after experts from the British Museum (BM) helped identify the piece. The funerary sculpture, taken from Cyrene in north eastern Libya, was seized by Border officials at Heathrow airport in London after being brought into the UK from…
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An open letter signed by more than 50 art historians, curators and researchers was submitted today to the Newark Museum of Art protesting its plan to sell works from its collection, most prominently Thomas Cole’s 1846 painting The Arch of Nero, organisers say. The letter, addressed to Linda Harrison, director and chief executive of the museum, denounces…
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With Frieze now well underway, New York has a taste again for art fairs—those not on a screen. And the next opportunity is around the corner: a potted edition of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair New York will run from 15 to 26 May in the lobby gallery at Christie’s, with a larger selection…
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When in 1985, a Texas jury awarded Pennzoil $10.53bn in damages for getting the short end of the contractual stick, the world learned just how powerful a handshake could be. One year prior in New York, the oil giant had reached an informal, but binding agreement to purchase a large stake in Getty Oil for…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York offered additional details today about the next major show presented by its Costume Institute, a two-part exhibition exploring American fashion that will run from 18 September through 5 September 2022. An online video preview underscored how the museum is invoking both the angst generated by the Covid-19…
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Eli Broad, the billionaire art collector, businessman and philanthropist who played an outsize role in transforming the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, has died, aged 87. Among other ambitious undertakings, he co-founded the art institution known as the Broad—which has become one of the most popular museums on the West Coast—with his wife Edythe, who…
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What would you say if you could speak to your favourite dead artist? Why did you choose that shade of blue? Did you really have to cut off your earlobe? Now fans of one of India’s most prominent artists M F Husain, who died in 2011, need wonder no more after a museum has brought…
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The killing of Daunte Wright by a police officer last month has opened wounds afresh in Minnesota, where only a year ago the death of George Floyd, after police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, sparked protests that spread across the country. With the trial of Chauvin just…
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