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- Lost Painting Buried Under a Picasso Rediscovered, 3D Printed, and Tokenized https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lost-painting-under-picasso-masterpiece-recreated-as-an-nft-1957407 4 comments
- Why I Believe New York's Art Scene Is Doomed http://news.artnet.com/art-world/why-i-believe-new-yorks-art-scene-is-doomed-214970 56 comments
- Artists and Curators Call for Israel to be Excluded from the Venice Biennale | Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/petition-israel-venice-biennale-2440366 80 comments worldevents
- A Roman Arm Guard Has Been Reconstructed From Over 100 Fragments https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roman-art-guard-reconstructed-2421778/amp-page 12 comments history
- Climate Activists Stormed the Stage During a Christie's Auction in New York | Activists are targeting the rich "who continue to spend extravagantly" while others endure the impacts of climate crisis. https://news.artnet.com/market/climate-activists-stormed-the-stage-during-a-christies-auction-in-new-york-2393387 6 comments climate
- This guy has excellent taste in books and art: "Rare Books Dealer Pom Harrington on His Original Roald Dahl Book Illustration, and the Accessible Beauty of Picasso's Prints" https://news.artnet.com/market/what-i-buy-and-why-wibay-art-collection-pom-harrington-2275150 2 comments books
- An Australian Artist Pulled a Pickle from a McDonald’s Cheeseburger and Slapped It on a Gallery's Ceiling. Now It Costs $6,200 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pickle-artist-2152731 37 comments nottheonion
- Former Louvre Director Jean-Luc Martinez Has Been Charged With Money Laundering Over Ties to Alleged Antiquities Trafficking Ring | Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jean-luc-martinez-money-laundering-charges-2121837 3 comments europe
- In a Milestone, Greece and the U.K. Have Agreed to Formal Talks About a Possible Return of the Parthenon Marbles https://news.artnet.com/art-world/restitution-talks-parthenon-marbles-2116907 268 comments europe
- Senior citizen steals jacket on display as artwork from museum, gets it altered by tailor and is caught at museum with it on https://news.artnet.com/art-world/musee-picasso-jacket-theft-2106895 13 comments nottheonion
- Italy Is Emerging as an Unexpected Hub for Crypto Art. But Regulatory Challenges Are Stunting the Growth of Its NFT Market https://news.artnet.com/news-pro/italy-crypto-art-2099081 8 comments cryptocurrency
- For 25 Years, Jeff Koons Has Been Locked In a Legal Battle With an Italian Man Over a Sculpture He Insists He Didn’t Create https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jeff-koons-serpents-italian-collector-2083584 5 comments nottheonion
- A Study of Prehistoric Painting Has Come to a Startling Conclusion: Many Ancient Artists Were Tiny Children https://news.artnet.com/art-world/children-worlds-first-artists-new-study-finds-quarter-prehistoric-spanish-hand-paintings-kids-13-2084734 18 comments anthropology
- Ireland Will Soon Pay Arts and Culture Workers a Basic Income to Help the Sector Bounce Back From the Pandemic https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ireland-basic-income-arts-culture-workers-2057413 608 comments worldnews
- Kind Scammer Returns $336,000 to Pranksy, the Digital Art Collector Who Bought a Fake Bansky NFT https://news.artnet.com/market/fake-banksy-nft-2004518 15 comments cryptocurrency
- 101 Bored Ape NFTs to be sold at Sothebys https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-august-31-2021-2004187 19 comments cryptocurrency
- An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing! https://news.artnet.com/art-world/italian-artist-auctioned-off-invisible-sculpture-18300-literally-made-nothing-1976181 11 comments nottheonion
- A French Artist Is Under Fire for Hanging a ‘Disrespectful’ Replica Skeleton of Napoleon’s Horse Over the Military Leader’s Tomb https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pascal-convert-napoleon-skeleton-1968297 5 comments nottheonion
- Celebrity Influencer Kim Kardashian Must Forfeit an Ancient Roman Sculpture That Experts Say Was Looted From Italy https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kim-kardashian-looted-italian-sculpture-1964390 35 comments europe
- In an Unprecedented Action, Thousands of Cubans Are Publicly Demanding the Resignation of Culture Minister Alpidio Alonso | Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/unprecedented-petition-cuba-culture-minister-1944963 5 comments worldnews
- The Dutch Government Just Promised to Return Any Stolen Colonial-Era Objects in Its Collections Back to Their Countries of Origin https://news.artnet.com/art-world/netherlands-restitution-guidelines-1941734 984 comments worldnews
- Archaeologists Have Found the Roman Emperor Hadrian's Palatial Breakfast Chamber, Where He Dined Before Servants on a Marble Throne https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hadrians-villa-breakfast-chamber-discovered-1943014 45 comments worldnews
- The Museum of London Has Acquired That Giant 'Trump Baby' Balloon for Its Collection of Protest Art | artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/1937805-1937805 71 comments moderatepolitics
- Who Did This? Yet Another Amateur Art Restorer in Spain Has Absolutely Demolished a Once-Beautiful Artwork https://news.artnet.com/art-world/restoration-fail-palencia-1922472 33 comments europe
- Sotheby’s Hopes Banksy’s Painting About the ‘Excesses of Consumerism’ Will Generate $6 Million in Excess Consumerism at Auction https://news.artnet.com/market/sothebys-banksy-show-me-the-monet-1909281/amp-page?__twitter_impression=true 134 comments nottheonion
- A Wedding Photographer Took an Online Archaeology Class and May Have Discovered a Lost Stonehenge-Like Structure https://news.artnet.com/art-world/wedding-photographer-discovers-losthenge-1855185 3 comments worldnews
- With Help from a Nigerian Prince, a Bold New Contemporary Art Museum Is Set to Open in Lagos | artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/shyllon-museum-of-art-in-nigeria-1775025 6 comments worldnews
- A Nashville Art School Will Purge All Non-Christian Faculty Now That It Has Been Taken Over by a Religious University https://news.artnet.com/art-world/chaos-unfolds-as-students-and-faculty-at-nashville-arts-school-learn-of-merger-with-christian-university-1767246?fbclid=iwar2kbxx711wg8v1b-nbpi7gi_f9snhygcjzh4ewi1gvtuwqvm5uevudxxbg 8 comments nottheonion
- Hidden Away for 50 Years, an Astonishing Collection of Classical Art Owned by a Secretive Italian Family Will Finally Go on a World Tour https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/torlonia-collection-rome-world-tour-1753788#.ximvhficesi.twitter 2 comments europe
- Banana for scale: Maurizio Cattelan Is Taping Bananas to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach and Selling Them for $120,000 Each https://news.artnet.com/market/maurizio-cattelan-banana-art-basel-miami-beach-1722516/amp-page 3 comments nottheonion
- Banksy's "Devolved Parliament" painted in 2009 back on display at Bristol Museum. https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2019/03/banksy-devolved-parliament-1024x605.jpg 13 comments europe
- Nearly Destroyed by ISIS, the Ancient City of Palmyra Will Reopen in 2019 After Extensive Renovations https://news.artnet.com/art-world/syria-isis-palmyra-restoration-1338257 170 comments worldnews
- Is the Art Market Ready to Embrace Work Made by Artificial Intelligence? Christie’s Will Test the Waters This Fall https://news.artnet.com/market/artificial-intelligence-christies-1335170 10 comments technews
- A Performance Artist Chained Himself to a Block of Marble Symbolizing the Burden of History. Then He Got Stuck. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/mikes-poppe-marble-block-1166213 6 comments nottheonion
- Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Failed to Disclose Their Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-art-970010 4 comments worldnews
- Trump Reportedly Wants to Eliminate the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-national-endowment-arts-823790 106 comments politics
- $77 Million Bruegel Painting in Nazi Loot Claim against Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nazi-loot-claim-bruegel-painting-346763 3 comments worldnews
- First the fix King Tut's mask with epoxy, now this... https://news.artnet.com/in-brief/cairo-antiquities-stolen-curators-arrested-304863 3 comments history
- Blasphemous artwork removed from Paris exhibition http://news.artnet.com/art-world/violent-threats-force-removal-of-prayer-rug-work-234763 10 comments worldnews
- French billionaire arrested for fraud and tax evasion. He must pay $600 million euros to the governement http://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-dealer-guy-wildenstein-caught-up-in-eur600-million-tax-evasion-case-106353 92 comments europe