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Massachusetts man arrested for breaking into Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with a stolen painting

Robert Viens, a 48-year-old man from Randolph, Massachusetts, was arrested this week by the Boston police department in connection to separate break-ins at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Arden Gallery this month. According to authorities, Viens had a warrant for his arrest for two counts of vandalising property and two counts of receiving…

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Major Museum openings and expansions in 2021

Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, Paris Opening 23 January, cost: €160m At 84, the billionaire François Pinault will finally realise a 20-year plan to build a private museum for his contemporary art collection in Paris. The Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, housed in an 18th-century grain exchange, is poised to open just two blocks away from the…

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UNESCO under fire for using Met objects in anti-trafficking campaign

Unesco has pulled back images from an advertising campaign intended to highlight international trafficking in looted artifacts after receiving complaints that it misrepresented the provenance of the works pictured. Among the objects used in the campaign were three from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York that were not stolen in recent years…

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Ballet Icon Misty Copeland is a Budding Collector of African American Art

LOCATED ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE of Manhattan, Misty Copeland‘s three-bedroom apartment was recently showcased by Architectural Digest (AD). She gave the design magazine’s audience a video tour. The home’s theme, she said, was works by artists fo color.  In nearly every room, works by African American artists are on display. Nathaniel Mary Quinn‘s work hangs in the living…

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