Taylor Dafoe, Author at Art News Global

16 Aug A New Brushstroke Analysis Reveals Vermeer Was Not the Painstaking Perfectionist Art Historians Long Thought | Artnet News

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For generations, art historians believed Johannes Vermeer was a perfectionist who worked very slowly—a theory supported by his precisely placed brush strokes and relatively limited career output. But in examining one of the painter’s masterpieces, researchers at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington,...

16 Aug A Powerful New Diego Rivera Show Reminds Viewers That Everyday Laborers Built the Modern World | Artnet News

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Before this year, the last major exhibition dedicated to Diego Rivera was in 1999. That was more than two decades ago. And yet our collective estimation of Rivera hasn’t changed much since then, as is often the case with canonized artists. That might make curator James...

15 Aug The Getty Will Return a Cache of Illegally Sourced Ancient Sculptures to Italy, Including a Prized Depiction of the Poet Orpheus | Artnet News

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The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles will return three ancient terracotta sculptures and other artworks to Italy after an investigation revealed the objects to have been illegally sourced. Dating to between 350 and 300 BCE, the life-size statues depict the poet Orpheus seated with...

12 Aug A New Law Requires New York Museums to Indicate If Artworks on View Passed Through Nazi Hands | Artnet News

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Thanks to a new bill, museums in New York will now be required to disclose if artworks on display ever passed through Nazi hands. Pieces proven to have “changed hands due to theft, seizure, confiscation, forced sale, or other involuntary means” during the Nazi era must...

10 Aug An Archaeology Museum Intends to Bury the Skulls of 13 Black Philadelphians From Its Collection. Not Everyone Is on Board With the Plan | Artnet News

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The Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has been working to re-bury the skulls of 13 Black Philadelphians whose bodies were used by a 19th-century scientist to propagate his white supremacist theories. But one activist involved in the process feels the institution shouldn’t decide the...

09 Aug A Cambridge College Will Install an Antony Gormley Sculpture Honoring Mathematician Alan Turing, Despite Resistance From Preservationists | Artnet News

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Despite pushback, an Antony Gormley sculpture honoring Alan Turing will be installed at King’s College in Cambridge, where the pioneering mathematician and wartime codebreaker studied in the 1930s. The Cambridge City council approved Gormley’s memorial, a modular 12-foot-tall corten-steel figure, on August 3. It will be...