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Lone senator blocks US bills creating museums that would celebrate American Latinos and women!

Utah Republican says that such museums would “divide an already divided nation”

Nancy Kenney11 December 2020
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Not all they seem: how galleries can spot fake ID documents!

From face-matching software to watching out for shifty behaviour, here is how you can protect yourself from fraudsters attempting to buy art under a false identity

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KAWS célèbre: street artist's first survey—and huge inflatable—make waves in Hong Kong

KAWS, aka Brian Donnelly, is now firmly in the mainstream art world

Anny Shaw25 March 2019

First Cupid, now a wine glass? More revelations emerge from restored Vermeer painting in Dresden

Major restoration on Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window shows a large studded goblet later covered by a green curtain

Martin Bailey9 September 2021

US dealers rush to leave Maastricht as Trump’s European travel ban causes confusion

Aiming to stop the spread of coronavirus, the suspension begins at midnight on Friday and is expected to last 30 days

Anny Shaw12 March 2020

Test material

17 September 2021

Belarus silences dissenting artists with long prison terms

A growing number of culture workers are being jailed on spurious charges

Julia Michalska29 March 2022

Museums & Heritage

Here is some information about Museums, and also some gold nuggets on Heritage.

Manet of the Valleys: portrait of the artist's bespectacled cousin to be restored by National Museum Wales

Painting will undergo extensive technical examination and cleaning thanks to €20,000 grant from Tefaf fund

British Museum to restore glass artefacts shattered in Beirut explosion

Eight vessels from the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut will undergo conservation thanks to €25,000 grant from Tefaf fund

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