Louvre: Former Head Charged for Complicity in Art Trafficking
Recent investigations into art trafficking have led to charges against the former president of the Louvre Jean-Luc Martinez.
Recent investigations into art trafficking have led to charges against the former president of the Louvre Jean-Luc Martinez.
An original wax sculpture by Salvador Dalí has been discovered after more than 40 years in a private collector’s vault.
To promote a masterpiece of Edgar Degas for an upcoming auction, Christie’s decided not to physically ship the sculpture around the globe, but instead opted for holographic projections of the work.
World order will tend to follow its own momentum. Rivals to U.S. hegemony like China do not, therefore, represent an alternative world-order, but an alternative bid for leadership over developing structures of biopolitical control.
Édouard Manet’s world-famous “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” is the latest piece of art to receive a ‘woke’ trigger warning for its “unsettling” presence of a male in the painting.
Proceeds from the sale of scammer Anna Sorokin’s drawings are intended to cover her legal costs, with 15% of the revenue to be donated to an “unspecified children’s charity.”
No beast is troubled by the fact of being a beast, still less moved to produce art expressing such anxiety. Even in our most savage conduct, human beings are nothing like wild animals. We are distinctly human, at times even fiendishly artistic, in our beastliness.
Listening to Renée Fleming in an intimate recital nearly five years after her semi-retirement, one has to wonder if she left too soon. She has upcoming April concerts in France, Germany, Lithuania, and the UK.
An app dedicated to evaluating the quality of artists networks uses AI to predict not only the price trajectory of art works, but also of entire artists careers. Big companies and museums are willing to trust the system and predict a growing arts market in the coming years.
Fictional rebellions invite us to side with the underdog. The story conveniently ends with their victory, but leaves no ruined lives and no unhealable scars—nothing to contradict the idea of a newly found paradise.
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