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The Collapsed House of the Gladiators at Pompeii

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The Collapsed House of the Gladiators at Pompeii

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“Tobias and his Wife” (1659), recently attributed to Rembrandt

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Interview with Noah Charney on WNYC:

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“Maya à la poupée et au cheval de bois”, Pablo Picasso
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The Dixie Brewery, 1979
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A work depicting the martyrdom of St. Lawrence, recently attributed to Caravaggio
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Adieu Australia, by Garry Shead, recently stolen in Sydney
  • Eighteen works stolen from a home in Sydney. 
  • The city of New York is suing Christie’s over architect Jacob Wrey Mould’s watercolor drawings which were found in the garbage fifty years ago.  
  • The remanded trial to determine whether Fisk University can sell parts of the Stieglitz collection continues. 
  • Eli Broad says museums need to “get art out of the basement“.  
  • A Henry Moore sketch has been stolen from a gallery in south Worcestershire. 
  • Another lenient sentence handed down in the 4 corners case, this time only 3 years probation.  This is the eighth of the defendants to receive a lenient sentence, though the prosecution claims that the massive investigation has sent a message that this kind of looting will be punished. 
  • “Joyance”, a statue by William Goscombe John has been stolen from a park in Cardiff. 
  • Thieves have defaced a Louise Bourgeois sculpture on Lafayette square in New Orleans—given as a gift by the artist to the city at his own expense after the storm. 
  • The Iraqi Tourism and Antiquities Minister Qahtan al-Juburi says that more than 36,000 artifacts have been recovered in the past seven years. 
  • Looting continues in Cambodia. 
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“The Gross Clinic”, after restoration

  • The Gross Clinic has been restored, all because of a deaccession.  
  • Twelve men were recently sentenced in France for creating an elaborate art forgery network, making and selling nearly 100 copies of works by Picasso, Chagall, Leger, and others between 1997 and 2005.  
  • Massive cuts are in store for the arts in the United Kingdom, a combination of the 2012 “successful” Olympic bid, and budget shortfalls.
  • That should put pressure on the Waverley export system.  Great Britain has blocked export of a work by Spanish old master Murillo to attempt to match the purchase price and allow the work to remain in the United Kingdom.  
  • Artists are taking a position on the deaccession problems faced by Brandeis University and its Rose Art Museum.  
  • Is there a “Great Museum Cartel“?
  • Banksy creates a work on a wall near an abandoned Packer auto plant in Detroit, somehow an ownership dispute ensues.
  • Divers exploring a shipwreck off the coast of Aaland in Sweden have found 30 bottles of well-preserved Champagne which may predate the French Revolution.    
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“Modern Rome—Campo Vaccino”, by JMW Turner was purchased by the Getty recently for $44.9 million in London.  Will the UK match the purchase price and prohibit export?

Lots of developments in the news while I was teaching in Italy, here are a few of the high points:

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