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Hillary Clinton to Speak at New State Department Museum of Historical Artifacts
Washington Post / January 8th, 2017
Located just two blocks from the National Mall, the new U.S. Diplomacy Center—the nation’s first museum and education center devoted exclusively to exploring the history, practice, and challenges of U.S. Diplomacy—is set to open. One feature of the new destination focused on the State ...
Dutch Court Orders Crimean Treasures Returned to Ukraine
Dutch News / December 15th, 2016
A Dutch court has ruled for Ukraine in the return of historical treasures from Crimea loaned a few years ago to the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam for an exhibition titled “The Crimea: Gold and Secrets from the Black Sea.” A near two-year legal battle has been waged over whether the loaned ...
London Developer Leaves $490M in Art, Cars to Britain
Telegraph / December 14th, 2016
One of the biggest charitable bequests in British history has come from the estate of a property magnate who built the landmark Centre Point tower in London. Harry Hyams, who died last year at age 87, has left £387m ($498.34m) of his £487m estate for Britain to preserve his extensive collection ...
Denmark Plans Immersive Hans Christian Andersen Museum
VOA / November 2nd, 2016
A "magical" new museum based on the works of Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen will be built in his birthplace of Odense. City officials said Monday that A. P. Moller Foundation, main owner of the shipping and oil group A. P. Moller-Maersk, has donated $33 million for the ...
Italian Mafia Trades Arms-for-Art With ISIS in Libya
Daily Beast / October 18th, 2016
Domenico Quirico, a journalist from La Stampa newspaper, recently went undercover as an art collector to expose how looted antiquities are being traded in support of ISIS. Italy’s Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta, working with the Neapolitan Camorra criminal gang, has an illicit art-for-weapons ring ...
The Monet Cookbook Gives a Taste of Giverny Living
ArtfixDaily / October 18th, 2016
From Potato Pie to Strawberry Mousse, French impressionist Claude Monet “appreciated simple dishes made of fresh ingredients and prepared according to very basic yet authentic principles,” writes Florence Gentner, a museum consultant and author who has just published The Monet Cookbook: ...
Treasure Hunters Zero In On $62 Billion of Lost Nazi Loot
Daily Mail / October 10th, 2016
The Daily Mail reports that a pair of treasure hunters claim they are near to recovering $62 billion in Nazi loot left behind by Hilter's forces as they fled a Czech town in 1945. In Štěchovice, about 20 miles from Prague, Josef Mužík and his partner have been on a decades-long search ...
Four Museums in Legal Action for Return of Crimean Treasures
Dutch News / October 6th, 2016
Dutch News: A court case began in Amsterdam on Wednesday to determine the future of a collection of gold and other treasures from the Black Sea region. Four museums in Crimea are taking legal action to force the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam to hand back treasures loaned for an ...
Victoria and Albert Museum Director Reportedly to Resign Over Brexit Concerns
Guardian / September 4th, 2016
The director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, Martin Roth, is expected to resign this week and return to his native Germany in a decision fuelled by his disillusionment at the Brexit vote. Roth was appointed in 2011, becoming the first foreign director of the V&A since it was founded ...
Export Ban Placed on $6.5 Million Queen Victoria Crown
BBC / August 29th, 2016
The BBC reports: A temporary export ban has been placed on a sapphire and diamond coronet that belonged to Queen Victoria, preventing it from being sold abroad. The coronet, designed by Prince Albert for their wedding in 1840, is at risk of being exported unless a UK buyer matches the £5m ...
Official Posters for the 2016 Rio Olympics
Dezeen / August 7th, 2016
Designs by 13 artists were chosen to represent the 2016 Rio Oympics. The posters capture the spirit of the summer games and the city itself, from Brazilian street artist Kobra's vibrant take of a child flying a kite over a favela to Beatriz Milhazes' stylized rings over water. The ...
Bill Cunningham, Legendary Fashion Photographer, Remembered
New York Magazine / June 26th, 2016
Famed fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, known for his candid style, died Saturday at the age of 87. He focused on capturing the personal style of regular folks seen on New York streets as opposed to celebrities in haute couture. Jerry Saltz writes for New York Magazine that Cunningham was ...
Items From 'Modernist Icon' The Four Seasons Restaurant at Auction
Dezeen / June 15th, 2016
The Philip Johnson-designed The Four Seasons restaurant in New York is considered by many as "one of the rarest phenomena in Modernism." The restuarant is an unusual intact example of the International Style shown through its architecture and every element of decor. Wright will auction off ...
Green Diamond, Birkin Bag Set Auction Records in Hong Kong
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2016
Luxury goods found ready buyers in Hong Kong early this week. A "fancy vivid green" diamond brought $16.8 million at Christie's Hong Kong auction on Tuesday, setting a world auction record for a green diamond and world record price per carat for a green diamond, according to the auction ...
Emergency Meeting at Smithsonian Aims to Halt Paris Auction of Sacred Tribal Artifacts
Hyperallergic / May 25th, 2016
Hyperallergic reports the latest battle to repatriate objects of significance to indigenous people. A new auction of contested artifacts is ahead next week in Paris, where Hopi objects have already been subject to sales eight times at public auctions since 2013. At the ...
150 Banksy Works From Private Collections Exhibited in Rome
NBC / May 25th, 2016
An unprecendented assemblage of 150 privately-owned works by mysterious street artist Banksy are on view in Rome. "War, Capitalism & Liberty" opened at the Palazzo Cipolla museum on Tuesday and continues through Sept. 4. The artist is not involved in the exhibition and his identity has ...
George Lucas Eyes San Francisco Again For Museum Site
Chicago Tribune / May 15th, 2016
Months of legal entanglements over the Chicago lakefront site chosen for George Lucas's museum has the Star Wars creator looking again at San Francisco. Chicago Tribune reports: Aaron Peskin, a San Francisco supervisor, confirmed Sunday afternoon that preliminary discussions between the city ...
Chicago Mayor Defends $1.2 Billion Lucas Museum Plan
Chicago Tribune / April 19th, 2016
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday defended his latest plan to bring movie mogul George Lucas' museum to the lakefront, a day after revealing that it would require borrowing nearly $1.2 billion, extending five taxes beyond their expiration dates and securing the approval of a ...
Supreme Court Upholds Book-Scanning Ruling In Google's Favor
Reuters / April 18th, 2016
(Reuters) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by a group of authors who contend that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library violates copyright law. The Authors Guild and several individual writers have argued that the project, known as ...
Man Charged in Murder of U.K. Antiques Dealer
Oxford Mail / April 14th, 2016
A 50-year-old man from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, was charged with murder on Tuesday in connection to the death of UK antiques dealer Adrian Greenwood, 42, who was found with multiple stab wounds in his Oxford home last week. The suspect, Michael Danaher, will appear in Oxford Crown Court on ...