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Ancient artefacts from sunken city lifted out of Mediterranean near Alexandria
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (529+ words) Divers and archaeologists help retrieve a submerged antiquity from the site of Canopus off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt Courtesy the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt Artefacts from the ancient, submerged city of Canopus off the coast…...
Artists’ monumental hot dog sculpture, now with patriotic toppings, returns to Times Square
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (264+ words) Among foods that are improved when reheated, most people would probably not rank hot dogs very highly. But the artist duo Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw have once again defied conventional wisdom with the triumphant return of their monumental foodstuff…...
Buffalo AKG Art Museum will split leadership duties in two and promote internally for new directors
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (353+ words) “Cathleen and Jillian are both passionate, driven, creative and I frankly couldn’t think of any better profiles to fill the roles than what we have right in front of us,” says Alice Jacobs, the board’s president for the last nine…...
Unesco adds ancient Greek city Tauric Chersonese in Crimea to World Heritage in Danger list
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (414+ words) Tauric Chersonese in Crimea Tauric Chersonese, a 5th century BC Greek city in Russian-occupied Crimea, has been added to Unesco’s list of World Heritage in Danger. The decision was made on 22 July at the 48th Session of the World Heritage Committee, which…...
Viking centre that loaned ship for ‘The Odyssey’ says that it has not been compensated by Universal for repairs
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (283+ words) A replica Viking ship featured in Christopher Nolan’s epic movie The Odyssey is at the centre of a payment row after the boat’s owner alleged that the film studio Universal failed to pay for damage to the vessel. Universal maintains…...
Philadelphia opens its Van Gogh Sunflowers display with a very rare loan from London’s National Gallery
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (980+ words) Van Gogh’s turquoise-blue Sunflowers (January 1889) from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the yellow Sunflowers (August 1888) from the National Gallery in London Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, The Art Newspaper's long-standing correspondent and expert…...
Ancient Etruscan monster gets new state-of-the-art home in Florence museum
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (484+ words) The bronze sculpture will take centre stage at the Florence museum Italian Ministry of Culture, National Archaeological Museum of Florence It is as fierce as it is fearsome. The mythic Chimaera was as captivating to the Etruscans who crafted the…...
Appeals court sides with Jeff Koons in copyright-infringement dispute over ‘Made in Heaven’ series
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (148+ words) Works from Jeff Koons’s Made in Heaven series, shown here at a retrospective at the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2015 Ander Gillenea/AFP via Getty Images The allegations revolve around a sculpture of a coiled snake that Hayden created for the Hungarian…...
Ecuador’s national museum picks new design for $100m home following pushback to original selection and resignations
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (305+ words) The selection drew widespread criticism on social media. Romina Muñoz, then Ecuador’s vice minister of culture and a member of the jury, publicly defended the selection in several interviews. On 9 July, the culture minister Gilda Alcívar asked her to resign....
Glasgow School of Art says £265m needed to restore destroyed Mackintosh building is ‘unaffordable’
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (296+ words) The outer shell of the Mackintosh building remains Restoring the iconic Glasgow School of Art (GSA), which was destroyed in a fire in 2018, will cost around £265m, an “amount which is unaffordable”, says the school’s board of governors in a new…...