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Louvre's Apollo Gallery reopens after the robbery, but its exhibits are moved to secure storage

The robbed Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre has reopened to the public. But since the robbery the hall has stood empty. The museum's new director, Christophe Leribault, has decided that whatever survived the robbery must be hidden away in a high-security vault. Well, not quite

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European Union confirms cancellation of long-term two-million grant to Venice Biennale Foundation over Russia's participation in the 61st Venice Biennale

The European Union has confirmed the cancellation of a long-term two-million grant to the Venice Biennale Foundation over Russia's participation in the 61st Venice Biennale. The pavilion, meanwhile, was open for only a few days. The European Commission had threatened to halt funding as early as

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We Are Tired of Using “You” to the Stars, We Have Learned the Sweetness of Roaring

The programme of the Futurists in two lines of Khlebnikov, written around 1908. We wish to say “thou” to the stars We are tired of saying “you” to the stars We have learned the sweetness of roaring Be fearsome, like Ostranitsa, Platov and Baklanov, Enough of your bowing To the

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Julio Escámez’s mural “Beginning and End” found under layers of paint in Chillán in 2021

In the Chilean City of Chillán, a Monumental Mural Painted Over on Pinochet's Orders Is Being Restored. Julio Escámez's mural "Beginning and End" was commissioned in 1969 for the ceremonial hall of the municipal building and took two years to complete. Its theme will

Painted double portrait of an elderly man and woman against a golden-green background, the woman wearing an ornate turquoise dress.

Art · Observations

Gala and Dalí in a 1983 double portrait by Sighard Gille

Gala and Dalí. Siegfried Gille, 1983 Just as I had pictured them

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Italian trade union declares labour dispute over heat in Venice museums

Because of the heat, a trade union threatens strike action in Venice's museums. An Italian national cross-sector trade union has declared an industrial dispute over the fact that working in Venice's museums has become dangerous. The apparent temperature outside reaches 40 degrees, while inside certain

A light wooden frame on a log wall holds an abstract work: a circle with yellow, blue and red segments over a dark photograph. The edge of dark carved furniture shows below.

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Framed geometric composition on a log cabin wall

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In the early 2000s Eduard Steinberg, a representative of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, a nonconformist, one of those whose art turned away from the Soviet norm towards pure geometry and metaphysics, built a house in Tarusa, which he made his

In the early 2000s Eduard Steinberg, a representative of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, a nonconformist, one of those whose art turned away from the Soviet norm towards pure geometry and metaphysics, built a house in Tarusa, which he made his working studio, where he painted and

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Art-crime specialist Erin Thompson explains why dozens of American museums still hold antiquities bought from Ali Aboutaam, the Geneva dealer convicted of trafficking in cultural property

Art-crime specialist Erin Thompson has explained why dozens of American museums still hold antiquities bought from Ali Aboutaam, the Geneva dealer convicted of trafficking in cultural property. Aboutaam built a scheme of shell companies and forged provenances: a restorer scrubbed freshly excavated objects with a toothbrush in an old

Archaeology · The East · Heritage · Society

UNESCO Prepares to Expand the List of World Heritage in Danger

The vote will begin in Busan, South Korea, this Friday. The List of World Heritage in Danger is a separate status within the World Heritage register, to which are added sites threatened with destruction by war, natural disaster, development or neglect. The Director of the World Heritage Centre, Lazare Eloundou

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Alice Mackler ceramics among over seventy works donated to the Zimmerli Art Museum

And they lived happily ever after! A very charming piece of ceramics by Alice Mackler, 2014. Mackler is a most interesting artist who began to win recognition as a sculptor only after the age of eighty, when a solo exhibition of her work was held in New York in 2013.

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Name of a Maya mathematician and astronomer read for the first time at Xultun, Guatemala

At the Guatemalan site of Xultun, archaeologists have for the first time deciphered the name of an ancient Maya mathematician-astronomer: Sak Tan Wash, "White-Breasted Fox". The inscription was found among more than fifty mathematical micro-texts on the wall of a small room that researchers regard

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