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Italian Museums Display 750 Artefacts Recovered from Robin Symes, a Disgraced Antiquities Dealer

Pratiksha Shome Italy recently showed 750 artefacts that its Culture Ministry and heritage police agents had taken from the shut down business of convicted art dealer Robin Symes, believed to be worth $12.9 million. Clay vases, garment components, precious metals and jewels, weapons, tools, furniture, sarcophagi, burial urns, intricate mosaics, painted decorations, and a range

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New research Reveals that German Museums House 40,000 Cameroonian Artefacts.

Pratiksha Shome According to a recent study released last week by Bénédicte Savoy and Albert Gouaffo, professors at the Technische Universität in Berlin and the University of Dschang in Cameroon, respectively, German museums house 40,000 artefacts from Cameroon, more than any other museum collection worldwide, including the state collections of Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé. Researchers from

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The Barbie Movie Required so Much Pink Paint That it Caused a Global Scarcity.

Pratiksha Shome During production, Greta Gerwig’s  Barbie movie needed so much pink paint that the entire global inventory of one firm was depleted. In an interview with Architectural Digest, Gerwig and the movie’s production designer Sarah Greenwood discussed how Barbieland was built, which is nearly entirely bright pink, including the life-size replicas of the doll’s

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Artefacts from Machu Picchu show the Daily life of Women, Men and Children

Krispin Joseph PX What is the Philosophy of artefacts? The theoretical viewpoint and the intuitive link between artefacts as valuable things and agents’ purposes, beliefs and actions. Where we find the objects and what they tell about the past is a fascinating subject to examine. The most important question is what function they maintained in

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Blockbuster Vermeer Exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Attended by 650.000 Visitors

Pratiksha Shome With 650,000 visitors from 113 countries over the course of its 16-week run, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is describing its Vermeer show as “the most successful in its history.” The show was the biggest ever devoted to Vermeer and included 28 of his works. Among those pieces were well-known paintings like The Milkmaid

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27-year Partnership Between the British Museum and BP Ends.

Pratiksha Shome Environmentalists have hailed the British Museum’s decision to sever its 27-year collaboration with the fossil fuel firm BP as a win. After decades of philanthropic links with organisations like the Tate and the National Portrait Gallery, this represents BP’s abrupt exit from the British art scene. There are no further contracts or agreements

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Artist Jesse Draxler on His New Solo Show, Which Feeds Off of His Dark and Mysterious Inner World: “It’s the Snake Eating Its Own Tail”

Pratiksha Shome Jesse Draxler, an artist, has gone all out to set up his most recent exhibition at Naked Eye Studio in Los Angeles.  Through June 7, “U&I” features a variety of his works, including painted panels, conceptual sculptures, and digital media, all of which are placed in a setting that the artist himself conceptualised

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Designer Turns Waste, Pipes, and Manhole Covers into Exquisite Furniture

Tsuktiben Jamir At Ek Kalakaar Design Studio, they explore the imaginative creativity that coexists peacefully with art and design. The studio is committed to avoiding the banal and favouring the creation of classic daily furnishings and settings. It brings creativity to life in a world of possibilities with strikingly original concepts and materials derived from

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AI is Designed for Catch Cultural Artefacts Traffickers

Krispin Joseph PX Cultural artefact trafficking is the main problem in that culturally rich countries. There are traffickers and smugglers active in cultural trafficking; they steal the artefacts from museums or heritage sites, smuggle that from the mother country to another and sell them to museums or individuals. Thousands of Centuries-old cultural heritage artefacts are

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