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Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, September 20. NEED-TO-READ Former U.S. Ambassador Sues Auction House Exec – The former U.S. ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton, has filed a lawsuit against Rodica Stewart, the chief executive of French auctioneer Tajan. He ...

A 1910 painting by Wassily Kandinsky is being returned by a Dutch museum to the heirs of a Jewish family from which it was seized during World War II. The decision ends a years-long legal dispute over the painting, which has been in the collection of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven since 1951. The painting, View of Murnau with Church, will be transferred from ...

A rare silver quarter shekel, valued up to $1 million, was returned to Israel by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in a ceremony on Monday, according to a press release. It is the fourth known coin of its kind to exist from an uprising known as the Great Jewish Revolt, which began in Ancient Rome in 66 C.E. The silver quarter-shekel, which dates to ...

Pops of colour and imaginative places reign supreme in the 20th edition of the prestigious biennial landscape art prize founded by gallery founder, arts patron, and philanthropist John Leslie."The show as a whole just looks spectacular," Gippsland Art Gallery director Simon Gregg said."Colour reigns this year, there is so much colour in here you kind of need sunglasses just to come in."Of the 455 John ...

The Netherlands has returned a trove of pre-Hispanic artifacts to Panama, aiding the country as it works toward its goal of reclaiming looted cultural heritage from international collections. Some 343 ceramic objects were returned on August 29 in what Panama’s Foreign Minister, Erika Mouynes, has called the “largest repatriation of archaeological pieces in the history of Central America.” The Foreign Ministry also reported that another repatriation of heritage objects is ...

PARIS, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global turnover from Fine Art auction sales increased by 8.8% in H1 2022, despite another wave of Covid-19 in China. Artprice counted a record number of auction transactions around the world and observes a growing enthusiasm for works by artists from the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, whose prices are highly ...

Denton Comic Art Expo returns for a sequel  Denton Record Chronicle Source link

'Best ever' show as Great Yarmouth art guild exhibition returns  BBC Source link

Hull Freedom Festival returns with extended nine-day run  BBC Source link

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. returned a more than 1,000-year-old handwritten gospel to the Greek Orthodox Church on Tuesday. It was transferred to an Eastern Orthodox Church during a private ceremony in New York. The manuscript, which had been looted from a Greek Monastery in World War I and was acquired by the museum at a Christie’s auction in 2011, is ...