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Article date: Sunday, October 21, 2018

12,000-Year-Old Human Fossil Fragments Recovered From Burnt Brazil Museum

Brazilian officials said Friday they have recovered pieces of a 12,000-year-old fossil of a neolithic woman that was among the prized artifacts in Rio de Janeiro's burnt down National Museum.

Article date: Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Swedish Group Barnebys Acquires The World's Leading Online Art & Collectables Appraisals Service – 'Valuemystuff'

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.

Article date: Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Debt Collectors Enlisted to Attend Press Conference Held by Catherine de Zegher and Igor Toporovski

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.

Article date: Wednesday, October 17, 2018

"Research Has Shown that the Avant-Garde Works Presented at the MSK Earlier this Year, are the Original Avant-Garde Pieces"

Brussels - Tests conducted last year at the MSK in Ghent have resulted in evidence that clearly and indisputably proves the works of the controversial Toporovski collection are genuine and authentic. This is what the suspended director of the MSK, Catherine de Zegher, announced on Wednesday at a press conference. Before the press conference could begin, two bailiffs entered the premises with a petition.

Article date: Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Pop-Art Artist Mel Ramos dies at 83

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.

Article date: Monday, October 15, 2018

Preserving the Cultural Heritage of the World: Interview with Maurizio Tuccio, CEO of Piql Italy

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.

Article date: Monday, October 8, 2018

Karine Huts: A Life of Collecting

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.

Article date: Thursday, September 27, 2018

The Queen's Window by David Hockney is Revealed

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

Article date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Tadao Ando's Work Retrospective In Centre Pompidou

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.

Article date: Saturday, September 22, 2018

John Christakos Named President Of The Board Of Trustees At Walker Art Center

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.

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