#ArtnetNews: British Museum rakes in $3.3m in Bayeux Tapestry ticket sales—and more art industry news. Frieze Abu Dhabi confirmed its dates, and New York City passed a record cultural budget.
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#ArtnetNews: There’s new money in Old Masters. London's Classics Week pulled in $101.6 million as buyers chased aesthetics as much as provenance.
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#ArtnetNews: Did this large animatronic bear inspire Jeff Koons? It’s heading to auction. The 50-year-old bear was created for children's television, but left its footprint on the art world.
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#OnView: Frank Gehry changed the face of museums. A potent survey shows how. A retrospective at the Serralves Museum unpacks the creative process behind his landmarks.
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#ArtnetNews: An eBay seller was offering bargain rates for major artists. Our reporter investigated. Works by Jim Nutt, Christina Ramberg, and others could be had for $499 or less. Experts weighed in.
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#ArtnetNews: Prized Etruscan frescoes, newly acquired by Italy, go on view. The Italian Ministry of Culture acquired the frescoes this year for $17 million, after also snapping up a Caravaggio and an Antonello.
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#TheArtAnglePodcast: How Doug Aitken thinks in music. The artist's new work, 'Lightscape' has just landed at The Shed in New York.
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#ArtnetNews: A forgotten 18th-century painter just broke records. A long-lost portrait by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard sold for $1.5 million at Christie's.
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#ArtnetNews: Towering bronze Laocoön sells for $18.1 million at Sotheby’s, demolishing estimate. It set a new auction record for a Neoclassical sculpture.
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#ArtnetNews: Which art types will attend the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce Wedding? Guests have been summoned in black tie to Madison Square Garden on Friday afternoon: source.
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#ArtnetNews: These 10 U.S. landmarks are at-risk, World Monuments Fund says. The nonprofit has named sites including I.M. Pei’s Dallas City Hall and Black Mountain College to its Irreplaceable America list.
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#ArtnetNews: 1,000 unseen Karl Lagerfeld sketches hit the auction block. Sotheby's is hosting its sixth sale of the late designer's collection, including his gloves, iPods, and hundreds of drawings.
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#ArtnetNews: Hew Locke, Oscar Murillo tapped for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027. The renowned public art exhibition has named the first five artists for the upcoming edition.
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#ArtnetNews: Man admits fraud in sale of Courbet painting to Bruce Springsteen’s manager. Record producer Jon Landau bought 'Mother and Child on a Hammock' in a deal gone wrong.
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#ArtnetNews: Entire Herculaneum scroll deciphered by A.I. for the first time. A team working as part of the Vesuvius Challenge deciphered the scroll without ever unraveling it.
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#ArtnetNews: Swiss Institute buys space by New Museum, plans Bowery move. The storied nonprofit, which turns 40 this year, will own its home for the first time.
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#ArtnetNews: What is the Raphael Loggia, the Vatican masterpiece being restored after 500 years? The corridor in the Apostolic Palace, adorned with frescoes designed by Raphael, forms part of the papal apartments.
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#ArtnetNews: John Singer Sargent painting reveals hidden image during conservation. A restoration of the work by the Mesdag Collection has uncovered fingerprints and a pair of legs.
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#ArtnetNews: Long-forgotten Rembrandt, revealed by restoration, comes to auction. The painting was only rediscovered in the late 2010s.
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