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Met Museum Disputes Former Rolling Stones Member’s Claims About Stolen Guitar

http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-1277817928.jpg Mick Taylor, 1982. Photo Ross Marino/Getty Images A donation of 500 guitars to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this past May was perceived as a particularly exciting addition to the collection—so exciting, in fact, that the donation even announced via a long-form profile in The New Yorker. But that donation may include one object …

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Artist Tyrrell Winston Sues New Orleans Pelicans Over Instagram Posts

Works by Tyrrell Wilson. Photo Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images Visual artist Tyrrell Winston, whose “signature use of found, deflated basketballs” has garnered him acclaim—and, he says, contracts with NBA owners—sued the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday for copyright infringement. Winston’s beef centers on Pelicans’ Instagram posts showing New Orleans players in front of deflated basketballs that Winston contends are “substantially …

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Why Edvard Munch’s The Scream May Be the First Modern Painting

Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893 National Museum of Norway, Oslo. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. Two paintings vie for the top spot in Western art history, earning them pride of place on countless postcards, posters, and tote bags among other forms of merchandise and mass media incarnations. One is Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, the other, Edvard Munch’s …

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Scottish Museum Group Warns of ‘Policing of Gender’ in Restrooms, Russia Files Criminal Charges Against Museum Director in Estonia, and More: Morning Links for July 28, 2025

A 2023 protest in Glasgow. Photo Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images The Headlines BATHROOM TALK. Museums Galleries Scotland, the umbrella body for 455 museums and galleries in Scotland, has warned of “an environment of suspicion and policing of gender” in some restrooms since this year’s Supreme Court ruling on what defines a woman. (The court ruled that the …

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Top Art Collector David Geffen Sued By Estranged Husband for Breach of Contract

(L-R) David Geffen, Donovan Michaels, Lady Jemma Mornington and Arpad Busson at the Vogue World: Paris 2024. Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Entertainment mogul and renowned art collector David Geffen was sued on Tuesday morning by his estranged husband, model Donovan Michaels, for alleged breach of contract, Variety reported earlier this week.  The …

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Artlogic and ArtCloud Merge in Bid to Shape Art World’s Digital Backbone

Alex West, CEO of ArtCloud, and Mike Profit, CEO of Artlogic. Photo Benjamin Brooks In the latest sign of consolidation sweeping the art-tech sector, inventory management giant Artlogic and gallery software firm ArtCloud will merge in an attempt to reshape the digital infrastructure that underpins the global art market. The move combines Artlogic’s long-established strength …

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Teotihuacán: A Guide to Mexico’s “Other” Pyramids

Teotihuacán, Mexico Apolline Guillerot-Malick/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. We aren’t the first generation to be impressed by the pre-Columbian megalopolis of Teotihuacán, in central Mexico. The ruins seemed ancient even to the Aztecs, who encountered it centuries after it was abandoned. Awed, the Aztecs gave the site its name: Teotihuacán, or “the place where gods …

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Yinka Shonibare Is Using Money from His Art Sales to Give Back to Africa

Yinka Shonibare. Photo Andrew Esiebo/©G.A.S. Foundation and Andrew Esiebo In April 2011, Yinka Shonibare visited the Nigerian city of Lagos following an invitation from celebrated curator Bisi Silva, who’d invited the London-based artist for a talk about his practice and to host a show. There was no space to mount the show Silva and Shonibare …

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A “Year of Cezanne” in Aix-en-Provence Celebrates the Painter’s Life

Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890 Collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. A spa city in the South of France founded by the Romans in 122 B.C., Aix-en-Provence is the birthplace of French painter Paul Cezanne (1839–1906). Ironically, however, until 1984 you could not view any of Cezanne’s works in his hometown; …

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