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Blue-Chip Artworks Seized From Top Portuguese Collector Will Be Featured in New Art Museum in Lisbon
The star-studded art collection assembled by a top Portuguese collector that was seized by the state will form a key component of a new contemporary art museum set to open in the country’s capital city in October, Midnight Publishing Group News has learned. The Berardo Collection, assembled by collector and business tycoon José “Joe” Berardo, […]
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Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum Becomes the Latest Institution to Cut Ties With Disgraced Starchitect David Adjaye
Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum is the latest cultural institution to cut ties with Adjaye Associates, more than a month after the Financial Times reported on serious accusations of sexual misconduct against its founder, David Adjaye. The museum will nonetheless forge ahead with his designs for its £57 million ($72 million) redevelopment project, hiring another firm […]
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After a 25-Year Dispute, the Chrysler Museum Will Return the Neoclassical Masterpiece ‘Wounded Indian’ to Its Rightful Owner
After 65 years, an acclaimed marble sculpture by Peter Stephenson is headed back to a Boston organization founded by Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere. The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (MCMA) secured the return of 1850 neoclassical masterpiece The Wounded Indian from the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, ending a nearly 25-year dispute over the work’s […]
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The Hermitage Amsterdam Has Settled With a Belgian Magazine That Claimed the Museum Stole Its Brand Identity
In June, the Netherlands’ Hermitage Amsterdam revealed plans to rebrand itself as the H’ART Museum in an effort to sever ties with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. But the news was not welcomed by all. HART a Belgium-based art magazine, claimed that the institution stole its brand identity and threatened legal action. Now, […]
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Italy Is Calling on the Louvre to Repatriate Seven Ancient Artifacts of Questionable Provenance
Italy is calling on the Musée du Louvre to return seven ancient artifacts that experts say were looted. In February, Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano met with Louvre president Laurence des Cars in Paris to discuss the group of objects. Among them is a black, 5th-century amphora attributed to the famed “Berlin Painter” and several Greek […]