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Rodin Collected Over 1,000 Egyptian Artifacts. Here’s How They Shaped His Sculpture
How Rodin's Collection of 1,000 Egyptian Artifacts Shaped His Sculpture
Art history has all but forgotten the love that sculptor Auguste Rodin had for the art of Egypt. A new exhbition in New York is fixing that.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Long-Lost Renoir Painting Sells for $2 Million in Paris
Long-Lost Renoir Painting Sells for $2 Million in Paris | Artnet News
A long-lost Renoir painting of his young son and nanny, unseen for over 100 years, sold for $2 million at auction after resurfacing in a Parisian bedroom.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Rodin Collected Over 1,000 Egyptian Artifacts. Here’s How They Shaped His Sculpture
How Rodin's Collection of 1,000 Egyptian Artifacts Shaped His Sculpture
Art history has all but forgotten the love that sculptor Auguste Rodin had for the art of Egypt. A new exhbition in New York is fixing that.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Politician demands end to Grand Egyptian Museum ticketing system that leaves locals in ‘secondary category’
Politician demands end to Grand Egyptian Museum ticketing system that leaves locals in ‘secondary category’
The newly opened museum currently allocates a percentage of its daily ticket limit to both Egyptians and foreigners
www.theartnewspaper.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A Very Private Affair: Warhol Bardot Portrait Makes $16.7 Million at Invite-Only Auction
A Very Private Affair: Warhol Bardot Portrait Makes $16.7 Million at Invite-Only Auction | Artnet News
Art world power players Tony Shafrazi, David Mugrabi, Sam Orlofsky, and George Economou were among the crowd.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Rare Winston Churchill Painting Makes $1.5 Million in Canadian Retail Giant’s Art Sell-Off
Winston Churchill Painting Leads Canadian Retail Giant's Art Sell-Off
After declaring bankruptcy in March, Canadian retailer Hudson’s Bay Company is selling off its art collection at an auction with Heffel.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection
The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection | Artnet News
Eli Leon's game-changing African American quilt donation stuns in "Routed West" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
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November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
How Star, North Carolina, Transformed an Abandoned Mill to a Thriving Hub for Artists
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November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Home Acquired by Mississippi Museum
Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Home Acquired by Mississippi Museum
An iconic Frank Lloyd Wright design in Jackson, Mississippi has been snapped up by the Mississippi Museum of Art.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice
In his own words: Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice
A 1938 lecture given by the notoriously tight-lipped Surrealist can be heard as part of the exhibition “Magritte. La ligne de vie”
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November 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Leonard Lauder’s Klimt Fetches $236.4 Million at Sotheby’s
Leonard Lauder's Klimt Fetches $236.4 Million at Sotheby's | Artnet News
The top lot of the week was a Klimt portrait from the collection of Leonard Lauder at Sotheby's. It set a new auction record for the artist.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Bookmarks in returned library books go on display
Bookmarks in returned library books go on display
Bookmarks include receipts, shopping lists, children's creations and photos, staff say.
www.yahoo.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Vienna Prosecutors Order Seizure of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of an African Prince
Vienna Prosecutors Order Seizure of Gustav Klimt's Portrait of an African Prince | Artnet News
A long-lost painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt may have been exported from Hungary in violation of that country's export regulations.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
U.S. Returns 36 Stolen Artifacts to Egypt After Major Recovery Effort
U.S. Returns 36 Stolen Artifacts to Egypt After Major Recovery Effort
36 relics repatriated to Egypt mark just the latest success in a global push to return antiquities to their rightful owners.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Peeling Back the History of Soviet Wallpaper www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pee...
Peeling Back the History of Soviet Wallpaper
What do the walls of abandoned Soviet-era apartments look like?
www.atlasobscura.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Fabulous Story Behind Calder’s Circus, the Tiny Big Top That Set His Art in Motion
The Fabulous Story Behind Calder's Circus, the Tiny Big Top That Set His Art in Motion
Cirque Calder, or Calder's Circus, the artist's miniature rendering of a circus, is marking its 100th year with a show at the Whitney Museum.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Messages in a bottle from WWI soldiers found on Australian coast bbc.com/news/article...
Messages in a bottle from WWI soldiers found on Australian coast
The notes were thrown overboard just a few days into a voyage to join the battlefields of France more than a century ago.
bbc.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Trump Fires Fine Arts Commission Overseeing Building Projects
Trump Fires Fine Arts Commission Overseeing Building Projects
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump undertaken moves and policy shifts that are drastically impacting the arts.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing
Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing
An unsanctioned exhibition uses AR to insert works by Native artists, like Cannupa Hanska Luger and Jeremy Dennis, into the museum’s 19th-century landscapes.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Preservation Group Calls for Pause on White House Wing Demolition
Preservation Group Calls for Pause on White House Wing Demolition
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump undertaken moves and policy shifts that are drastically impacting the arts.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
One of America’s Oldest Art Collections Gets a Stunning New Home
At Princeton, a Storied Old Collection Gets a Stunning New Home
The Princeton University Art Museum opens its David Adjaye-designed building, measuring some 146,000 square feet, on October 31.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM