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At a heavily attended press conference held by Leo Neels, Catherine de Zegher and Igor Toporovski, the five experts and dealers from London, New York, Dusseldorf and Bath to request the recording have filed a lawsuit against Catherine de Zegher.

The service that has ‘discovered’ a Claude Monet painting valued at £1.5m, a Medieval chastity belt valued at £2,000, a mid 19th-century golf ball valued at £20,000, and a request to value a mother-in-law, is the latest acquisition by Barnebys, the world’s leading search engine for art and collectibles.

Melvin Ramos, The Sacramento-born Pop art painter Mel Ramos, known for appropriated cartoon imagery and randy depictions of nude women incongruously set among commercial icons, has died. Mel Ramos was an American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art.

To celebrate 2018 as the European Year of Cultural Heritage, Piql will preserve the top ten European cultural relics in the Arctic World Archive, for the following 500 years.  These relics will join existing treasures such as digitised manuscripts from the Vatican Library and Edvard Munch’s The Scream.

Two simultaneous, complementary exhibitions of Anthropocene opened on September 28th at the National Gallery of Canada (NCG) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). ArtDependence Magazine had a chance to talk to Andrea Kunard, the curator of Anthropocene at the NGC about the project.

Johannes Vermeer's The Milkmaid is travelling in style: not in an ordinary wooden box, rather in a bespoke trunk designed by Louis Vuitton. The painted case of lacquered canvas, decorated with copper edgings, was crafted in the studios of Vuitton in Asnières-sur-Seine near Paris.

Karine Huts doesn’t do anything small. She –together with husband Fernand Huts- is a global leader in the harbor logistics business and manages one of the largest private art collections in Belgium. The family aims to share Flemish art with the world, and the world’s art with Belgium. ArtDependence sat down with Karine Huts to talk art.

JMW Turner: Watercolours from Tate will be the first major exhibition of the work of Turner in Latin America, and the first Tate exhibition to be shown in Argentina. It opened on 26 September 2018, at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires.

"Art comes out from life and its social role is to be part of life. My genome will continue to exist in my two daughters and I believe, that life on earth will never be extinguished. In my heart I hope to be remembered by the emotions I and my artworks gave and hopefully will continue to give. This provokes a sense of immortality and, of course, I would like to be never forgotten. But only being part of universal life, which annihilates the single individual, guarantees a never ending existence. Not easy to accept".

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam becomes Europe’s General Idea knowledge center thanks to a significant acquisition of work by this influential ’80s artists’ collective.

Westminster Abbey unveiled a new stained glass window designed by David Hockney and commissioned to celebrate the reign of Her Majesty The Queen.

The Centre Pompidou is holding a major retrospective of the work of the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, a key figure in contemporary architecture and a previous winner of the prestigious Pritzker prize for architecture.

Inori, Japanese word meaning prayer, invocation, worship, was written in 1973-74 by Karlheinz Stockhausen and was performed many times in concert halls and theatres with orchestra (or tape) accompanied by one, two or three dancers since its premiere at the Donaueschinger Musiktage on the 18th October 1974. This time, shown at the Berliner Philarmonie, Inori was directed by Peter Eötvös.

Over the weekend Sagrada Família presentated the evolution of the works and the most important future milestones. The tower of Jesus Christ is undoubtedly one of them, since the first panel is scheduled to be placed in October.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Frick Collection Planning Collaboration To Enable Frick to Use Whitney Museum of American Art’s Breuer Building During Frick’s Upgrade and Renovation.

The Walker Art Center announced the appointment of John Christakos as President of the Board of Trustees. Christakos began his two-year term as President on September 18. The board also appointed Vice-President Patrick Peyton, The Peyton Group, Treasurer John P. Whaley, Arts Advocate, and Secretary Teresa Rasmussen, Thrivent Financial.

This week, London welcomes a new visitor destination to the heart of iconic Covent Garden. The world-renowned Royal Opera House, a Grade 1 listed building, has undergone a transformative £50.7m renovation and for the first time in its history will be open every day from 10am.

Peter Bruegel the Elder’s Dulle Griet (Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp) has regained its spectacular original appearance with the rediscovery during restoration of a blue-green sky.

The creation of Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples (1558-1562), a painting in the collection of the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome, has been attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

"He could be kind, be horrible, be generous, be mean, be funny, be grumpy, be childish, be old. But mainly he just loved to work. He really was a fascinating man. He enjoyed thinking he could manipulate me, but I could see through him and just laughed at his shenanigans".