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Victorian government spends $500,000 to retrieve rare Aboriginal art to Australia

News / May 26, 2022

It was a long-drawn effort to retrieve aboriginal art that culminated in success recently owing to a proactive move by Australia. Two rare artworks by Wurundjeri artist William Barak at auction at Sotheby’s in New York and The Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Corporation had raised $117,627 via a crowdfunding page to buy the artworks …

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Collector Rennie to go big by housing Chinese Canadian Museum

News / May 26, 2022

Eminent collector Bob Rennie was first approached last year about transforming the Rennie Museum in Vancouver’s Chinatown into a new home for the Chinese Canadian Museum, he initially declined the offer. After meetings between Rennie and the society as well as Melanie Mark, BC’s minister of tourism, arts, culture and sport, it was announced in …

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Met and World Monuments Fund to collaborate on digital project for art galleries

News / May 25, 2022

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the World Monuments Fund are going to collaborate on a digital project aiming to strengthen the understanding of several historic sites in sub–Saharan Africa, The Art Newspaper reported. The collaboration will be on the occasion of the reopening of previously antiquated galleries of African, ancient American, and Oceanic art in 2024. …

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Rini Dhumal retrospective honours late artist’s ‘Shakti’ at Mumbai’s NGMA

News / May 25, 2022

A few months short of a year to her demise, an art show celebrates the strongly feminine, spiritually energetic artworks of Rini Dhumal in an exhibit that coincides with NGMA’s 25th anniversary   A tribute to the celebrated artist and printmaker known for her portrayal of women and feminine divinity, the late Rini Dhumal, is …

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Hacker takes over Beeple’s Twitter; followers may face massive losses 

News, Uncategorized / May 24, 2022

Beeple’s Twitter account was at the mercy of a hacker for almost five hours on Sunday, May 22. The hacker, who has not been identified yet, posted malicious links, possibly resulting in the loss of over $438,000 worth of cryptocurrencies and NFTs. He posted a teaser about a fake Louis Vuitton x Beeple collaboration, a …

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Expensive upgrade of Royal British Columbia Museum met with criticism

News / May 24, 2022

Canadian premier John Horgan’s announcement that the troubled Royal British Columbia [BC] Museum in Victoria will be demolished and replaced by the most expensive museum in Canadian history has led to a lot of criticism, The Art Newspaper reported. Horgan announced the $789m museum upgrade on 17 May but offered few specifics, prompting scorn and …

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Anna Sorokin of the much-binged Netflix show puts up her first art exhibit… from prison!

News / May 24, 2022

The eponymous main character of Shondaland\’s \’Inventing Anna\’ has put up her first solo exhibit, in the form of 20 sketches drawn while incarcerated for grand larceny Anyone who has binge-watched the relatively recent Netflix offering, Inventing Anna, from the stock of noted American producer Shonda Rhimes, has probably been left both fascinated and disturbed …

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Why art sale prices are going through the roof, and more news from the world of art

art market, News / February 12, 2023

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends …

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Warhol Museum to set-up a six-block Pop District in Pittsburgh

News / May 23, 2022

In an aim to develop Pittsburgh into a cultural hub, Andy Warhol Museum is establishing a six-block Pop District in the surrounding neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, artnet news reported. It will turn Pittsburgh’s North Shore into a new cultural tourism destination. In a statement quoted in artnet news, director of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, Sam …

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