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• Heirs of Art Dealer Persecuted by Nazis Claim Sotheby’s Sold Prized Tiepolo with Misleading Provenance

  22-05-2023 22:17 via artnews.com
  
  The descendants of a Jewish gallery owner who left behind a prized Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painting during his escape from the Nazis in 1938 have accused Sotheby’s of providing a misleading ownership history ahead of its 2019 sale. In 2019, Sotheby’s said in a statement that it did not known the ownership history of the painting, St. Francis of Paola Holding a Rosary, Book, and Staff. The auction catalog only stated that it came from a “distinguished private collection&r
  
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• Catherine Telford Keogh on Sculpting Trash and Compressed Landfill into Striking Assemblages

  22-05-2023 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  Art in America’s Summer 2023 New Talent issue includes a series of interviews with five New York–based artists to watch. A.i.A. senior editor Emily Watlington and photo editor Christopher Garcia-Valle visited each artist in their studio to learn more about their art-making process, inspirations, and influences. Below, in an edited version of the conversation, sculptor Catherine Telford Keogh explains how she conglomerates trash and landfill into striking sculpture
  
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• Catherine Telford Keogh On Sculpting Trash And Compressed Landfill Into Striking Aassemblages

  22-05-2023 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  Art in America‘s Summer 2023 New Talent issue includes a series of interviews with five New York–based artists to watch. A.i.A. senior editor Emily Watlington and photo editor Christopher Garcia-Valle visited each artist in their studio to learn more about their art-making process, inspirations, and influences. Below, in an edited version of the conversation, sculptor Catherine Telford Keogh explains how she conglomerates trash and landfill into striking sculpture
  
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• 2,500-Year-Old Pre-Columbian Sculpture Returned to Mexico

  22-05-2023 20:40 via artnews.com
  
  A massive stone sculpture known as the “Earth Monster” or “Monster of the Earth” has been returned to Mexico from the United States, the Associated Press reported last week.The stone artifact, which measures close to six feet tall and weighs more than 2,000 pounds, most likely dates back to the Middle Preclassic Period between 800–400 BCE. According to AP, the statue was stolen from Chalcatzingo in central Mexico during the 1960s, though the exact circumstances
  
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• Hispanic Society Union Ratifies First Contract, Ending Eight-Week Strike

  22-05-2023 19:29 via artnews.com
  
  Unionized workers at Manhattan’s Hispanic Society agreed to end an eight-week strike after ratifying a contract agreement on Friday.“We return to work with our heads held high and with a strong contract,” the union wrote today in an Instagram post. The two-and-half year contract will “raise salaries by over 18%, establish contributions to a new 403(b) plan and preserve fully paid health benefits. The contract also calls for a labor management committee, health and safety
  
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• We Need to Talk About Purdue’s Newly Donated Degas Sculptures

  22-05-2023 19:14 via artnews.com
  
  Patricia Failing is professor emerita in the University of Washington’s School of Art, Art History, and Design. She has written several articles on Degas’s sculptures for ARTnews, beginning in 1979, and has reported on the Valsuani Foundry’s casts since 2010.  Earlier this year, Avrum Gray, a Chicago businessman, donated a major gift of 74 Edgar Degas bronzes to Purdue University in Indiana. The market value of the collection, which includes the famed Little Dancer, Aged F
  
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• Climate Activists Dye the Trevi Fountain Black in Wake of Devastating Flooding

  22-05-2023 17:54 via artnews.com
  
  Eight activists associated with the Italian eco-activism group Ultima Generazione dyed the water in Rome’s Trevi Fountain black using diluted charcoal on Sunday.The protest, which occurred mid-morning, lasted 15 minutes and all of the activists have since been arrested.The famed fountain will be drained, cleaned, and re-filled. There are no indications it has sustained any damage. Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri condemned the protest, saying in a Facebook post Sunday that though the founta
  
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• Monumental Sculpture of Black Woman by Tschabalala Self Is Painted White by Vandals in England

  22-05-2023 16:40 via artnews.com
  
  A 10-foot-tall sculpture of a seated Black woman by Tschabalala Self was spray-painted white by vandals in England last week, in an incident that the US-based artist said was emblematic of the misogyny and racism that are pervasive in Europe and elsewhere.The work, titled Seated (2022), first appeared near King’s Cross in London last year and is now being exhibited by the De la Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, a town on the coast of East Sussex.After its vandalism on May 15, the community
  
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