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	IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME. Apart from the recreation of Marcel Proust’s bedroom at Paris’s Musée Carnavalet and from La Villa du temps retrouvé in Cabourg, Normandy, there are in France very few places dedicated to the memory of the French author, famous for writing In Search of Lost Time. The house of his aunt Elisabeth Amiot, which was turned into a museum in the 1970s, has just reopened after a major renovation and extension work, in Illiers-Combray,...

Marcel Proust Museum Reopens, Art Social Media Experts on the Rise, John Lennon Glasses Go to Auction, and More: Morning Links for July 22, 2024

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	The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art has become the first in the United States to restitue its holdings of Benin Bronzes, to the Oba of Benin, the former head of the royal family of Benin and steward of its legacy. Two objects, a brass plaque and wooden altarpiece, were formally returned in a ceremony held on July 15 at the Benin Palace in Nigeria.Nigeria's New Museum of West African Art Calls Into Question the Future of Encyclopedic Museums




	The Benin Bronzes are a group of thousands of objects plundered by British troops from the Kingdom of Benin, in what...

Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art Becomes First in the US to Return Benin Bronzes













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	GENIUS IN A BOTTLE. French artist Abraham Poincheval (b. 1972), who is known for locking himself up in unexpected structures—an armor, a stuffed bear, a rock—has decided to repeat the experience inside a giant bottle, moored to the dock of the Saint-Denis canal, in Paris. Some find the idea genius; others ludicrous, reports Beaux Arts. How long will the intrepid artist stay on the River Seine? Ten whole days, for the entire duration of the Olympic Games!...

Warhol Portrait of Debbie Harry Resurfaces, French Artist to Spend 10 Days in a Bottle, Student Buys a ‘Chagall’ for $2, and More: Morning Links for July 31, 2024













	Part of London Bridge, a grey steel and concrete product of the seventies, has been illuminated by a new 190-foot-long mosaic.The public artwork, titled In a River a Thousand Streams, is a collaboration between Camden’s London School of Mosaic (LSOM) and British artist and designer Adam Nathaniel Furman.London's V&A Museum Is Set to Open Taylor Swift Exhibition




	First proposed in 2016, the mosaic was started in 2022 and comprises 250,000 glass pieces in 28 different colors along a wall at London Bridge’s bus terminal. Seventy volunteers helped put it together and it’s LSOM’s largest commission to date.




	London Bridge, one of the...

London Bridge’s Bus Terminal Illuminated by New 190-Foot-Long Mosaic

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	The Parthenon Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is returning over 250 ancient Mexican artifacts this month after holding them for more than five decades. Restitution Suit Over Guggenheim's 'Woman Ironing' by Picasso Dismissed




	The pre-Columbian tools, instruments, ceramic pots, and clay animal sculptures (including a grinning Mexican hairless dog) are being voluntarily returned to Mexico City by the museum following a special exhibition highlighting the effects of cultural looting in the art and antiquities trade. 




	“For Metro Parks, the repatriation of these artifacts is a cultural obligation as well as a moral responsibility,” Metro Parks director Monique Horton Odom said in a...

Parthenon Museum in Nashville Returns 500-Year-Old Mexican Artifacts

New York City, NY

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(JTA) — On Friday, for the third time since September, Timothy Reif found himself standing in the New York District Attorney’s Office to accept a modernist drawing that the Nazis looted from his family. With him in the room was a relative of another family that survived the Nazis and that — in an unusual...

Another Nazi-looted Schiele painting has been returned to heirs of ‘Cabaret’ inspiration Fritz Grünbaum

It was a Night at the Museum for special NBC Olympic correspondent Snoop Dogg, and a history lesson unlike most. As the 2024 Summer Olympic Games continue in Paris, Snoop was given a private, after-hours tour of the Louvre, home to some of the world’s finest art, as seen in a Thursday, August 1, 2024, promo clip on TikTok by NBC Olympics. The “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper was guided through the grandiose empty wings to do some “snooping around,” avoiding the tens of thousands of tourists who visit the museum daily.

Snoop Dogg Has the Funniest Reaction to Seeing the Mona Lisa at the Louvre













	Bonhams Modern Design and Art sale later this month will feature 35 lots from the personal collection of actor Jim Carrey. Bonhams Addresses Charity Scrutiny, Paris' Landmarks Become Olympic Venues, Roland Dumas Dies, and More: Morning Links for July 8, 2024




	The furniture pieces includes items by French sculpture artists Philipe Hiquily and Jean-Claude Farhi, Dutch experimental designer Joris Laarman, British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and Belgian bronze specialist Paula Swinnen. 




	“It’s been my very good fortune to be surrounded by many of the finer things in life and I’m always gratified when it’s time to let them go so that...

Bonhams Modern Design Auction in LA Includes 35 Lots Consigned by Actor Jim Carrey

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	The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has been a commercial hit and a critical misfire.Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to Recreate  '2001: A Space Odyssey' Stargate this Fall




	In an era of declining Oscar telecast ratings, the new institution’s robust ticket sales — there have been nearly 2 million visitors since it opened in September 2021 — have turned it into a major Los Angeles draw, bolstered the Academy’s coffers and prompted inaugural museum director Bill Kramer’s ascension to CEO of AMPAS, the parent organization. Yet except for Regeneration, its lauded deep-dive showcase of Black American filmmaking through the early...

The Academy Museum has a Pandering Problem that Can be Solved













	Twelve artists have won the first batch of the Trellis Art Fund’s $100,000 awards, with Lorraine O’Grady, Candida Alvarez, and American Artist among the inaugural winners.Indian Artist Prajakta Potnis Receives the 2024 Loewe Foundation / Studio Voltaire Award




	The Trellis Art Fund, a New York–based private foundation, said it had specifically awarded two of the awards to working parents in recognition of the challenges they often face.




	“Making a grant unrestricted is akin to funding basic science research,” Corina Larkin, Trellis’s executive director, said in a statement. “We wanted to relieve our grantees from the financial challenges of being an artist at every...

Trellis Art Fund Names 12 Winners of $100,000 Artist Awards, Including Two Working Parents

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Actor Clarence Williams III, best known as the super cool undercover cop Lincoln "Linc" Hayes on TV's classic crime drama, The Mod Squad, died three years ago from colon cancer at 81 years old. This is the story of a talent that lives on.

The Tragic Death of 'Mod Squad'/'Purple Rain' Actor Clarence Williams III: Three Years Later

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Art enthusiasts are losing their heads over this discovery.

A highly rare and significant portrait of England’s monarch Henry VIII — thought to be lost in 1781 — has been hiding in plain sight on a British official’s wall, a historian discovered through a photo posted to X.



Sotheby’s auction house consultant Adam Busiakiewicz recently spotted the work in a picture taken during an official reception within a government building called Shire Hall. 

It is where a local representative for the royal family, currently Lord Lieutenant Tim Cox, operates in town two hours north of London — and has ironically done so...

Lost Henry VIII painting discovered hiding on royal family rep’s wall

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Greek coin rarities that have been in an anonymous collection for decades are crossing the auction block in London in September. Noonans Mayfair’s Sept. 25 sale of the Philips Collection, a pseudonym for a private family collection, will feature 254 Greek coins with pre-1970 provenances, in a collection formed over 90 years by a father and son.

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	Turkish authorities have banned an exhibition that explores the art and history of the country’s transgender community, the Art Newspaper reported Thursday. Authorities shut down the exhibition, titled “Turn and See Back: Revisiting Trans Revolutions in Turkey,” by an order of a district governor who said the show “incited the public to hatred.”Recipients of the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship Announced, Including Nicholas Galanin, Lorraine O'Grady, and More




	“Turn and See Back” was staged at the non-profit space Depo Istanbul, which was established by Osman Kavala, a Turkish arts administrator who was arrested by the Turkish government in 2017 and placed in solitary confinement following...

Turkey Bans Transgender Art Exhibition Amid Intensified LGBTQ+ Crackdown

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	Dominick Di Meo, an artist who shook up Chicago’s art scene in the 1960s with surreal paintings and collages, only to gain a following far beyond the city late in his career, has died at 97. His death was announced on Sunday by his Chicago gallery, Corbett vs. Dempsey.Bill Viola, Video Artist Who Established the Medium as an Integral Part of Contemporary Art, Dies at 73




	Di Meo was among the Chicagoan artists who during the ’60s plotted a new, off-kilter course of art-making that shared little in common with the Pop art and Minimalism emerging from New York. Neither totally...

Dominick Di Meo, Artist of Chicago’s Monster Roster with a Cult Following, Dies at 97

Actor Buddy Ebsen, who died at age 95 in 2003, found fame by starring in two of the most popular classic television shows in history: The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 1962 to 1971) and Barnaby Jones (CBS, 1973 to 1980). On the Hillbillies, he played former Tennessee country mountain-folk-turned-wealthy Beverly Hills resident Jed Clampett. On Barnaby Jones, he was one of TV's most senior, slyest, health-conscious detectives. Ebsen, however, almost became even more famous for a certain big-screen classic film in which he ultimately did not appear.

'Beverly Hillbillies" Actor Buddy Ebsen Was "Bitter" about not playing the Tin Man in 'Wizard of Oz'

LONDON.- Six Tudor queens – Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr - travelled across London today, convening at the National Portrait Gallery to visit the summer blockbuster exhibition, Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens. Members of the...

The six wives of Henry VIII reunite with their iconic portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

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	In 2022, Richard “Dana” Moore, a history enthusiast and artifact collector, stumbled upon a framed fragment of canvas that was purported to have come from one of George Washington’s tents on Goodwill’s online thrift store. American Revolution Museum in Philadelphia Faces Pushback from Historians for Hosting 'Extremist' Group




	The fragment was featured in the historical documents section of the website, where it was accompanied by a note claiming that the fragment was from Washington’s tent, which was displayed at the 300th anniversary of Jamestown in 1907. 




	According to a story published by CNN, Moore was initially skeptical of the fragment due to the abundant prevalence of...

Priceless George Washington Tent Fragment Found on Goodwill’s Website













	Two activists from the protest group Just Stop Oil have been found guilty of criminal damage after throwing tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers.Supreme Court Rules Against Civil Liability Protections for the Sackler Family




	On October 14 of2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw soup at the painting, housed at the at the National Gallery of Art in London, before super-glueing their hands to the nearby wall.




	BBC News reported that Judge Christopher Hehir told Plummer and Holland they “came within the width of a pane of glass of destroying one of the most valuable artworks in the world” and to...

Just Stop Oil Activists Who Threw Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Get Prison Time

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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture, Venice Mayor Investigated, Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art Tops Out, and More: Morning Links for August 7, 2024













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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture, Venice Mayor Investigated, Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art Tops Out, and More: Morning Links for August 7, 2024

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