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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: Saturday, October 20, 2018

Mediterranean UNESCO World Heritage at Risk from Coastal Flooding and Erosion Due to Sea-Level Rise

UNESCO World Heritage sites (WHS) located in coastal areas are increasingly at risk from coastal hazards due to sea-level rise. "In this study, we assess Mediterranean cultural WHS at risk from coastal flooding and erosion under four sea-level rise scenarios until 2100".

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: Thursday, October 11, 2018

130 Iconic Works of Helen Levitt Street Photographer in Albertina

Helen Levitt was a revolutionary in her color photographs. As early as 1959, she began working in color as a means of artistic expression, thus numbering among the earliest representatives of New Color Photography.

Article date: Wednesday, October 10, 2018

66 Art Professionals Express Their Support to Former MSK Director Catherine de Zegher.

Art professionals express their support and condemn media trial and subsequent suspension of Catherine de Zegher, the former director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Ghent (MSK).

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.

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