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Giants of Mandurah fire: Hopes statue can be rebuilt as police offer $25,000 reward for information

The WA organisation behind the Giants of Mandurah exhibition in Perth's south is hopeful a way can be found to recreate one of the sculptures after it was destroyed by fire.

ABC News

Pope Francis orders Parthenon marbles held by Vatican be returned to Greece

Three 2,500-year-old pieces will be ‘donated’ to Greece’s Archbishop Ieronymos II amid wider conversation about future of Parthenon marbles held by Britain

The Guardian - AU

Jesuits ask victims to come forward in artist abuse case

Pope Francis’ Jesuit order is asking any victims to come forward with complaints against a famous Jesuit artist

The Independent UK

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Green Vault: Bulk of items stolen in £100m museum heist found by police

Police say they have retrieved most jewels taken in Dresden art theft dubbed ‘largest in modern history’

The Independent UK

Conrad Atkinson obituary

Other lives: Artist who highlighted contentious sociopolitical issues in his work

The Guardian - UK

Man blown away after taking £8 vase to Antiques Roadshow in Liverpool

The vase was originally purchased for £7.99

Liverpool Echo

On Sexuality: Helen Chadwick & Penny Slinger review – radical bodies

In an inspired pairing, the taboo-breaking 1960s and 70s work of these two British artists remains visceral and urgent today

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Oakland woman claims New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art secretly sold her grandma’s Nazi-stolen van Gogh

SAN JOSE, Calif. — An Oakland woman last week sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, claiming it bought then secretly sold a Vincent van Gogh painting the Nazis stole from her grandmother.

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Airbrushing claim as ‘Eric Gill museum’ shuns legacy of artist and sexual abuser

The master craftsman was once lauded in Ditchling, Sussex. Now, as the grotesque truth of his life is acknowledged, all that has changed

The Guardian - UK

Top British sculptor hits back in censorship row over loan to Turkish gallery

Turner prize-winner Tony Cragg defends decision to lend to Istanbul museum after criticism from leading Turkish artist

The Guardian - UK

AP PHOTOS: 'Preventive conservation' at Venetian palace

Art restorers in Venice are conducting an ambitious monitoring project to analyze and intervene early on precious artworks and elaborate ornamentation at a landmark Venetian palace that was at the heart of political life in the powerful maritime Republic of Venice

The Independent UK

Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2022

A year of revelations spanned Arles to the African diaspora, an unsung 20th-century great, and still lifes that are anything but…

The Guardian - UK

The deeply affecting Dundee exhibition exploring Black, queer identity

‘I’M really inspired and moved by a handful of artists making beautiful bold work, capturing their identities, their chosen families. D’Angelo…

The National (Scotland)

‘Damaged beyond repair’: police investigate after WA troll sculpture set on fire

Blaze destroys one of six Giants of Mandurah by Danish artist Thomas Dambo with arson squad examining cause

The Guardian - AU

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German police recover bulk of booty from $173 million Dresden diamonds heist

Investigators in Berlin secure 31 pieces stolen by thieves from the historic art collection in 2019, with specialists still to verify their authenticity and condition.

The Guardian - AU

Four resignations and a ‘deflated’ artist: inside the battle for the artistic legacy of Broken Hill

The curator, gallery manager and two other senior staff resign from Broken Hill’s art gallery as the council exerts its influence over what constitutes ‘local’ art

The Guardian - UK

Dinosaur head sold for $6m at US auction reveals new breed of art collectors

Sale of Maximus T rex at Sotheby’s reveals growing interest in palaeontological finds at auction houses

Reuters

German police recover bulk of booty from $120 million Dresden diamonds heist

Most of the jewels stolen from a historic Dresden art collection in 2019 in a $120 million heist have been recovered, German police and prosecutors said on Saturday.

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Arson squad investigates Giants of Mandurah fire which destroyed popular sculpture

Vivi Cirklestone, a large wooden sculpture that took a Danish artist hundreds of hours to build for the Giants of Mandurah exhibition, has been burned down.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ed Paschke’s artwork still dazzles even in mural reproductions in a Northwest Side viaduct

You don’t have to go to a museum or gallery to see the Chicago art great’s work. You can see them in murals that have been up for years along Lawrence Avenue just west of the Kennedy Expressway.

The Guardian - AU

‘It’s like a living installation’: a young family’s Fear and Loathing portrait

In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Clarissa and Tim Harris show us the gonzo painting they commissioned, which will grow with their family

Chicago Sun-Times

Kids, submit your artwork for our new student art contest. Your work could end up as a mural.

The Sun-Times, WBEZ and Vocalo are sponsoring the contest. The theme: ‘Bringing Chicago’s voices together,’ to celebrate the city’s diversity. Here’s how to enter.

Reuters

Pope Francis orders return to Greece of Parthenon sculptures held in Vatican

Pope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for more than a century.

The Guardian - UK

Larkin goes pop, Freud goes deep and rhinos go on the prowl – the week in art

The poet’s pop-culture tastes are laid bare for shoppers, while Turner’s wondrous colours hit Edinburgh and Manchester is bathed in light

The Independent UK

Pope returns Greece's Parthenon Sculptures in ecumenical nod

Pope Francis has decided to give back to Greece the three fragments of Parthenon marbles that the Vatican Museums have held for centuries

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