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Spanish Art Dealer Under Investigation for Fraud over Painting Marketed as Lost Caravaggio

Museo del Prado, Madrid Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty Images. A painting that for short while was referred to as a lost Caravaggio is now at the center of a major fraud investigation in Spain. The artwork, Ecce Homo with Two Executioners, was sold by Herennia Trillo, a Spanish art dealer, for nearly $300,000 in early …

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Curator Sam Ozer, Creator of Mexico’s TONO Festival, on Museum Collaborations and Funding Time-Based Work

Eartheater & Freeka Tet – screening of new video directed by Freeka Tet and live performance with the world premiere of Eartheater’s new song “Shark Brain” performed by her and Estrella del Sol at Ex Teresa Arte Actual Courtesy TONO Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers …

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New York’s Natural History Museum Returns Shrine to First Nations Community

Exterior view of The American Museum of Natural History’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation on May 10, 2023. Corbis via Getty Images New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has returned a shrine known as the Whalers’ Washing House to Mowachaht, a First Nations people in Canada. The Whalers’ Washing House …

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Citra Sasmita Rewrites Balinese Mythology Through a Feminist Lens

Citra Sasmita. Photo Gus Agung, Niskala Studio/Courtesy the artist In Citra Sasmita’s universe, naked women with long, flowing black hair are often engulfed in flames. Some sprout trees from their heads, their necks, or even their pelvises. Others metamorphose into snakes or birds. Still others wield swords and severed heads. Channeling creative and destructive energies, …

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Who Was Ethel Sands?

Walter Sickert, Ethel Sands Descending the Stairs at Newington , c. 1920 Collection of the Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK. Photo copyright © The Hepworth Wakefield/Bridgeman Images. The room comes into focus slowly. It’s an intimate space, with clothing strewn across a chair and a glimpse of a bed frame on the left side of …

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13 Women Artists Whose Works Have Broken the $1M Mark at Auction

Photocollage by Daniela Hritcu When Salvator Mundi, a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, fetched $450 million at Christie’s in 2017, it became the most expensive artwork ever sold. While male artists, dead or alive, keep breaking records at auctions (Jeff Koons’s $58.4 million Balloon Dog sculpture in 2013, Claude Monet’s $65.5 million Nymphéas painting …

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Connecticut-Based Palestine Museum to Launch Satellite Space in Edinburgh

Dundas Street, Edinburgh, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests across the UK. PA Images via Getty Images The Palestine Museum US in Woodbrigde, Connecticut, will launch a European satellite project in Edinburgh this May. The now space will be set in the Scottish city’s central Georgian-designed New Town, which was listed as …

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