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2024 July


Looted Asante treasures find a new palace home in Ghana

Looted Asante treasures find a new palace home in Ghana

The Asantehene added: ā€œWhen I next travel to England in the coming months [probably July], I will be meeting some of these Ghanaian artists, painters, goldsmiths and see how we can collectively work with some of the traditional art groups.


Archaeologists Identify 4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater in Peru

Archaeologists Identify 4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater in Peru

Experts were alerted by the local government to looting near the northern Peruvian town ZaƱa and quickly moved to the area before any destruction occurred, a press release from the Field Museum in Chicago said.


Aspen Art Museum will Share a Portion of Profits from Charity Auction with Artists

Aspen Art Museum will Share a Portion of Profits from Charity Auction with Artists

More than 50 artworks were donated for the 19th edition of the event by contemporary artists including Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Allison Katz, Emma McIntyre, Shota Nakamura, and Marina Perez Simao.


ā€˜Like a child in a messy divorceā€™: Mary Beard and David Olusoga tackle Parthenon Marbles debate in British Museum panel

ā€˜Like a child in a messy divorceā€™: Mary Beard and David Olusoga tackle Parthenon Marbles debate in British Museum panel

The issue of the Parthenon Marbles, and whether they should be returned to Greece, was discussed in depth by a panel at the British Museum (BM) on 5 July, with calls for their restitution noted as an ongoing concern for the newly appointed director Nicholas Cullinan.


A storied public art collection in California makes space for emerging artists

A storied public art collection in California makes space for emerging artists

She was hired by the university's chancellor, Pradeep K. Khosla, with the mandate to expand the audience and raise the profile of the Stuart Collection as an art destination, on a fast-growing campus traversed by nearly 85,000 students, faculty, runners, dog walkers and other visitors daily.


The Bidens Canā€™t Let Go

The Bidens Canā€™t Let Go

These Party leaders might reasonably doubt whether any alternative to Biden would have a much better chance to beat Trump: Vice-President Kamala Harris, the most obvious choice to lead the ticket if the President steps down, abandoned her own White House candidacy in 2020 before the first primary votes were cast, amid general disinterest.


Nate Cohn Explains How Bad the Latest Polling Is for Joe Biden

Nate Cohn Explains How Bad the Latest Polling Is for Joe Biden

His approval rating is a net ten points worse than it was in November, 2022 when inflation was much much higher and when he didnā€™t have the benefit of running against Donald Trump, who since then has been indicted on many charges, and has also been convicted of crimes in New York.


Charges dropped against pro-Palestinian protestors from Art Institute of Chicago encampment

Charges dropped against pro-Palestinian protestors from Art Institute of Chicago encampment

According to a statement posted to social media, the protestorsā€™ goals were to ā€œstand in solidarity with the Palestinian peopleā€ and to demand that SAIC and AIC divest from entities ā€œprofiting off of the occupation and genocide in Palestineā€, starting with cutting ties with the Crown family, Chicago billionaires who according to Forbes own 10% of General Dynamics.


Banksy hits back at UK home secretary, saying the detention of his migrant rescue boat in Italy is ā€˜vile and unacceptableā€™

Banksy hits back at UK home secretary, saying the detention of his migrant rescue boat in Italy is ā€˜vile and unacceptableā€™

Posting on Instagram on the eve of the UK general election, Banksy shared an image of the Louise Michel, a search and rescue boat he has funded that has saved scores of people tying to make the perilous crossing to Europe from North Africa.


US National Gallery acquires four Robert Longo drawings, including one of the 6 January insurrection

US National Gallery acquires four Robert Longo drawings, including one of the 6 January insurrection

Like much of Longoā€™s more recent output, the works are overtly political in nature, depicting the White House, the US Capitol, the Supreme Court Building and the 6 January 2021 insurrection.


St Louis gallery takes down artists’ pro-Palestine exhibition after deeming it anti-semitic

St Louis gallery takes down artists’ pro-Palestine exhibition after deeming it anti-semitic

A St Louis art centre has come under fire for taking down artists Dani Collette and Allora McCullough's exhibition Planting Seeds, Sprouting Hope after finding some of the featured works to be antisemitic.


July Book Bag: from a giant tome of Islamic and Middle Eastern art to a biography of the overlooked British artist Mabel Nicholson

July Book Bag: from a giant tome of Islamic and Middle Eastern art to a biography of the overlooked British artist Mabel Nicholson

ā€œMabel was a free-spirited young girl, an adventurous and well-travelled woman; key to a glittering bohemian circle and one of the most significantly overlooked talents of early 20th-century British art,ā€ according to the publisher.