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New York (AFP) - Contemporary American artist Richard Serra, known for his massive yet minimalist steel sculptures, died Tuesday at age 85, US media reported. His strikingly large pieces are installed all over the world, from Paris museums to the Qatari desert, and have sometimes sparked controversy over their imposing nature. Serra died of pneumonia Tuesday at his home on Long Island, New York, his lawyer John Silberman told The New York Times. Born in San Francisco in 1939 to a Spanish father and a mother of Russian Jewish origin, Serra studied English literature at the University of Califor...
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New York (AFP) - The Metropolitan Museum's new Harlem Renaissance exhibit presents the Twentieth Century movement as a central force in modern art, a bold reframing that many view as long overdue. The show, "The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism," which opens Sunday, is comprised of some 160 pieces depicting Black American life in the 1920s-1940s, featuring both well-known creators and some appearing in the internationally visited institution for the first time. Spread across a dozen galleries, there are canvasses of jauntily-dressed Black couples beaming from the dance floor; gra...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - US authorities announced Friday that two drawings worth $2.5 million stolen by the Nazi regime and eventually displayed in American museums will be returned to relatives of Fritz Grunbaum, an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer killed in the Holocaust. It follows the return last year of seven works of art stolen from Grunbaum in 1938 and sold by the Nazis to fund their war machine. "Girl with Black Hair" had been held by the Allen Museum of Art at Oberlin College and is valued at approximately $1.5 million, while "Portrait of a Man" was in the Carnegie Muse...
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New York (AFP) - Six artworks stolen by the Nazis and returned recently to the heirs of the Austrian Jew who owned them will be auctioned in New York next month, Christie's said Thursday. New York authorities announced on September 20 that leading institutions that include New York's Museum of Modern Art had agreed to return seven works by the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele to the family of Fritz Grunbaum, a cabaret performer and art collector who died in the Dachau concentration camp in 1941. Three of the works -- watercolors on paper, thought to be worth up to $2.5 million each -...
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New York (AFP) - The director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday the famed institution would return more pieces of art to countries that were victims of looting as it joins in efforts to fight international antiquities trafficking. "You will see and hear from the Met museum not only about more outcome from our research but actually more restitutions, more returns and more collaborations with those countries," Max Hollein told foreign journalists. "We don't want to have any object in our collections that came illegally," said the Austrian art historian, who has headed the Me...
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New York (AFP) - New York authorities announced on Wednesday the return of $9 million worth of art stolen by the Nazi regime to the family of Fritz Grunbaum, an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer killed in the Holocaust. The seven drawings, all from Austrian artist Egon Schiele, were "voluntarily surrendered by the holding institutions and estates," including New York's famous Museum of Modern Art, "after they were presented with evidence that they were stolen by the Nazis," the Manhattan District Attorney's office said in a statement. The move comes as a victory for Grunbaum's heirs, who have...
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New York (AFP) - US authorities seized three artworks allegedly looted by the Nazis and which are being sought by the heirs of a Jewish art collector who died in the Holocaust, officials said Thursday. They confirmed a report in The New York Times that said New York investigators had taken these works by the 1900s Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele from three US-based museums. In warrants issued Tuesday and seen by AFP, the New York state supreme court said "there is reasonable cause to believe" the works constitute stolen property. The works were seized from the Art Institute of Chicago, the...
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Paris (AFP) - France's Francoise Gilot, who died Tuesday aged 101, survived what she called the "hell" of being Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's mistress and muse to become a renowned artist in her own right. The Picasso Museum in Paris confirmed her death to AFP, after the New York Times reported Gilot had passed away following recent heart and lung ailments. While two of the other women in Picasso's life died by suicide, and two others had mental breakdowns, Gilot stood up to the giant of modern art, and was the only woman to leave him of her own accord. "Pablo was the greatest love of my lif...
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New York (AFP) - From an ancient Middle Eastern limestone elephant to seventh century Chinese sculptures, New York prosecutors have seized hundreds of priceless artefacts looted from around the globe that have earned it the reputation as a key global hub for art trafficking. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is among major institutions and collectors who have been forced to hand over works that the city has returned to more than a dozen countries in Asia, Europe and Africa. The scale of the seizures and repatriations "leaves no shadow of a doubt," said Christos Tsirogiannis, a forensic archaeolog...
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Washington (AFP) - Two climate activists were taken into custody on Friday for an attack last month on a sculpture by the French artist Edgar Degas at the National Gallery of Art, US officials said. Timothy Martin, 53, turned himself in to the authorities in North Carolina while Joanna Smith, also 53, surrendered in Washington, the US Attorney's Office said. Martin and Smith are charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and injury to a National Gallery of Art exhibit, the US Attorney said in a statement. Martin and Smith were accused in an indictment of smearing pa...
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