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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, January 23, 2015

Looted antiquities on display Wed. at the National Roman Museum.

$58 Million in Looted Antiquities Discovered by Authorities

Warehouses owned by a Basel-based art dealer and his wife have yielded a haul of $58 million worth of looted antiquities, say Italian authorities.

Detail from Lucas Cranach the Elder's 1530 paintings "Adam" and "Eve."

Legal Case Continues Over Contested 'Adam and Eve' Masterpieces

The Supreme Court will allow the ownership case of two Nazi-looted Renaissance masterpieces to go to trial in a longstanding battle between the heir of a noted Jewish art dealer and the Norton Simon Museum.

Cantor Exhibition Presents Rarely Seen Art by Robert Rauschenberg Documenting First Manned Flight to the Moon

Loose in Some Real Tropics: Robert Rauschenberg’s “Stoned Moon” Projects, 1969–70, is on view through March 16, 2015, at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center. In the early 1960s, ...

Robert Rauschenberg (U.S.A., 1925–2008), Drawing for Stoned Moon Book, 1970. Photo collage with watercolor and colored pencil on illustration board. Lent by Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photo by Glenn Steigelman.

King Tutankhamun mask at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Beard Glued Back on Damaged King Tut Mask

The blue and gold braided beard on the burial mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with

Alex Cooper to Host Unreserved Auction for Rare Jewelry Collection from the Estate of Noted American Author Barbara Mertz

Alex Cooper Auctioneers, Inc., one of the largest auction houses in the mid-Atlantic, is excited to present the rare ...

Edgar Degas' Ground-breaking Scène de ballet Offered at Auction

Edgar Degas’ 1885 oil on canvas, Scène de ballet, is to be offered at the Impressionist & Modern Art auction on February 3, 2015 at Bonhams New Bond Street salesroom in London. The ...

Suit of Armor Edo period (1615–1868), late 18th or early 19th century Iron, doeskin, and lacquer Museum Purchase, 1892.2783

Cincinnati meets Japan with Masterpieces of Japanese Art, Feb. 15 - Aug. 30, 2015

CINCINNATI – The Cincinnati Art Museum is home to one of the oldest and most extensive Japanese art collections among all U.S. museums. Masterpieces of Japanese Art, on view Feb. 14 - ...