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• Germany Returns 14 Stolen Artifacts to Italy, Including Ancient Gold Coins Stolen from Archaeology Museum

  06-06-2023 22:54 via artnews.com
  
  Germany recently returned 14 artifacts to Italy after they had been stolen from Italian museums or illegal excavations. The items included a Corinthian bronze helmet from the 3rd or 4th century BCE and an Attic kylix bowl from 550–40 BCE, ceramics, as well as four gold coins that were stolen from the National Archaeological Museum in Parma in 2009. “The condition of the helmet indicates that it was stored in the ground for a very long time,” said a press release from the Bavari
  
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• A Crystalline Show at Opera Gallery Defies the Divide Between Art and Design

  06-06-2023 21:40 via artnews.com
  
  Sunlight appears elastic in the lobby of Upper Manhattan’s Opera Gallery. It shoots through the glass facade and collides with a row of crystalline resin armchairs; some blue, amber, and black. The spring light passes in and out of the transparent objects in wild, refracting rays. Everything about the furniture reads as a contradiction: They’re delicately dyed like blown glass, but capable of carrying great weights. They’re in a gallery—that supposed sacred space—bu
  
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• Four New Nazca Lines Identified by Artificial Intelligence in Peru

  06-06-2023 20:20 via artnews.com
  
  Using a form of artificial intelligence, researchers have discovered four new Nazca geoglyphs in Peru, according to a new study recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. The Nazca lines are UNESCO-protected geoglyphs dating from between 100 BCE and 300 CE that depict humans, camelids, birds, orcas, felines, and snakes. There are a range of theories surrounding their purpose, including that the Nazca geoglyphs depict deities, are a form of irrigation, or are a calendar with ast
  
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• Françoise Gilot, Artist Who Fearlessly Chronicled Her Relationship with Picasso, Dies at 101

  06-06-2023 20:14 via artnews.com
  
  Françoise Gilot, a painter who wrote a famed 1964 memoir detailing her tumultuous decade-long relationship with Pablo Picasso, has died at 101. The New York Times reported that she died in New York on Tuesday.Long dismissed as one of Picasso’s “muses,” Gilot has in recent decades been reappraised as an artist in her own right. She had energetically worked alongside Picasso, however, and even maintained a contract with Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler, the same dealer who represen
  
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• Penis-Shaped Stone Used for Sharpening Weapons Found in Spain

  06-06-2023 18:21 via artnews.com
  
  In the Ria de Vigo, a river estuary in the southern part of the Spanish autonomous state Galicia, archaeologists have discovered a six-inch stone penis that dates to the 15th century that may have been used as a tool for sharpening weapons, according to the archaeologist group Arbore S.Coop.Galega.In 1476, Galicia was embroiled in the Irmandiño revolts, during which peasants tried to assert their freedom from the state’s nobility. Roughly 130 castles and forts were de
  
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• Smithsonian Names Architect for Bezos Learning Center, Tim Griffin to Lead L.A. Arts Group, and More: Morning Links for June 6, 2023

  06-06-2023 14:02 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesSTARMAN. The Wende Museum in Los Angeles is currently showing rarely seen photographs that Geoff MacCormack took while traveling across the Soviet Union in 1973 with David Bowie, riding the Trans-Siberian Express and spending a couple days in Moscow. The Los Angeles Times has published a few of those images
  
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• Pace Gallery Hires König Partner to Lead New Berlin Office

  06-06-2023 10:00 via artnews.com
  
  Laura Attanasio will leave her post as partner of Berlin’s influential König Galerie to join Pace Gallery, a sprawling operation that has spaces in seven locations across three continents. At Pace, Attanasio will lead a new Berlin office with the aim of furthering Pace’s reach in Germany and Austria.Attanasio became a partner at König in 2022, just a few months before allegations of sexual misconduct against its founder, Johann König, were reported by Die Zeit. (He den
  
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