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23 Mar 'The Material Is Alive'; Watch Artist Jes Fan Create Organic Sculptures That Explore the Intersection of Biology and Identity | Artnet News

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Pearls of Wisdom: As the Industry Descends on Art Basel Hong Kong, Gallerist Pearl Lam Returns to Her Hometown and Shares What’s on Her Radar Lam puts the spotlight on East Asian artists, where to eat in Hong Kong, and the hottest Chinese designers to watch....

23 Mar A New Initiative by Archaeologists at Pompeii Has Turned Up a Fascinating New Cache of Ancient Cookware | Artnet News

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The ancient city of Pompeii has long been celebrated as one of the richest archaeological sites of all time, and now its surrounding suburbs are finally getting their due attention. Researchers have announced new additions to the growing list of unique finds that have recently...

23 Mar Wet Paint in the Wild: Art Production Fund Director Casey Fremont Shows Us What Goes Into Throwing a Gala—and How to Recover From It | Artnet News

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Welcome to Wet Paint in the Wild, the freewheeling—and free!—spinoff of Artnet News Pro’s beloved Wet Paint gossip column, where we give art-world insiders a disposable camera to chronicle their lives on the circuit. To read the latest Wet Paint column, click here (members only). Ahh, gala...

23 Mar Workers at the Hispanic Society Museum Have Voted to Strike Following Stalled Negotiations for a Union Contract | Artnet News

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After more than a year of negotiations for a union contract, workers at New York’s Hispanic Society Museum and Library have authorized a strike. The move comes on the eve of the reopening of the museum’s main building in Washington Heights, which has been closed for...

23 Mar A New Report Has Linked More Than 1,000 Antiquities in the Met Museum's Collection to Traffickers | Artnet News

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An examination of the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art calls into question the origins of many of its antiquities holdings, with more than 1,000 works that once belonged to individuals either indicted or convicted of antiquities crimes. “The Met sets the tone for...

23 Mar Art Industry News: Nepali Officials Claim Works on Display at the Art Institute of Chicago Were Stolen + Other Stories | Artnet News

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Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Thursday, March 23. NEED TO READ Heiress Sues Pearl Lam Over Banksy Work – Karen Lo, an heiress...

23 Mar A Gigantic Public Artwork About Hong Kong’s Protests Was Quietly Censored in the Middle of Art Basel Week | Artnet News

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A large-scale artwork on show in during the Hong Kong Art Week was censored after the artist revealed that the work is embedded with pro-democracy messages. Pro-Beijing media accused the artwork of being “pro-black rioters.” Titled No Rioters, the digital moving image work by Los Angeles-based...

22 Mar New Analysis Reveals That the Famed ‘Ugly Duchess’ Renaissance Painting May Not Depict a Woman After All | Artnet News

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A new exhibition at the National Gallery in London is taking another look at Flemish artist Quinten Massys’s mystifying 1513 painting An Old Woman, popularly known as The Ugly Duchess. According to a statement in the exhibition catalogue, the figure in the 16th century work “challenges every...

22 Mar The Director of Moscow's Pushkin Museum Is the Latest Institutional Head to Step Down Amid Russia's Escalating Cultural Repression | Artnet News

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22 Mar The Director of Moscow's Pushkin Museum Is the Latest Institutional Head to Step Down Amid Russia's Escalating Crackdown on Culture | Artnet News

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Marina Loshak, director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, has announced her resignation. She will be replaced by Elizaveta Likhacheva, director of the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture. Loshak, who was born in Odessa, Ukraine, and moved to Moscow in 1986, had...