"Five years after private equity firm Epiris acquired and reinvigorated Bonhams auction house, it is now looking to cash in on its investment. The London-based firm is reportedly moving forward with a possible sale of the 230-year-old British house and seeking a valuation of roughly $1 billion." - Artnet
33 years after the law’s passage, at least half of the remains of more than 210,000 Native Americans have yet to be returned. Tribes have struggled to reclaim them in part because of a lack of federal funding for repatriation and because institutions face little to no consequences for violating the law or dragging their feet. - ProPublica
The X-ray, oriented on its side, has the original Still Life composition occupying two quadrants on the right. But the left side—the black backdrop of the final composition—reveals a face with deep set eyes and a distinct nose and mouth. - Atlas Obscura
Owning around 150 artworks, the Paris-based art collector actively shares his latest art acquisitions and stylish home interiors on his Instagram profile. Many of the artists in his art collection are some of the rising stars in the art world. - Larry's List
"Rather than forging existing paintings, Wolfgang produced hundreds of original works that skillfully imitated the styles of deceased European artists including Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Kees van Dongen and André Derain. His wife Helene then sold them as previously undocumented works, sometimes for seven-figure sums." - CNN
"The partial destruction of a Roman-era castle in the Turkish city of Gaziantep has led to fears that two earthquakes that struck on Monday may have damaged other priceless monuments in Turkey and Syria, areas rich in cultural heritage." - The Guardian
“It’s a deliberate policy to destroy the historical memory of the Ukrainian people,” said Alexsandr Symonenko, a Ukrainian archaeologist and Scythian specialist at Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences. - New York Post
"If it is not yet clear how blocks of flats or schools or shopping centres near you might be changed by this revolution, the energy and invention behind it are undeniable" - and so is the social transformation of the profession. - The Observer (UK)
You might not revile Sir Arthur Evans in the same breath that you do Lord Elgin - but the British archaeologist was a fabulist who spun tales and poured concrete into the palace he claimed was the site of the Minoan Labyrinth. - The Observer (UK)
In addition, the more progressive U.S. membership has clashed - repeatedly - with the much more culturally conservative international contingent. - The New York Times
The 14-square mile project was to be on Federal land in eastern Nevada — on the way to Michael Heizer's 1970 work Double Negative, a pair of man-made gashes in the mesa. Fans of the work hated the idea of people driving through an enormous field of solar panels to reach it. - Los Angeles Times
"The marble sculpture, showing a Hercules-like figure with the hero's trademark lion skin and club, was unearthed on Jan. 25 (in) the Appian Way green area. ... (It) bears a 'fair resemblance' to Emperor Decius, who ruled Rome from 249 to 251 AD." - Reuters
A growing awareness of the impact of those systems on the climate has led a number of major institutions to rethink their most fundamental conservation orthodoxies. - The New York Times
"While this monumental shift has long been attributed to shifting stylistic preferences, a new study ... argues that it was also due to a change in the environment's appearance: As the Industrial Revolution engulfed London and Paris in smog, the world literally became blurrier." - Hyperallergic
Sometimes buildings are designed as a way to create prototypes and visionary schemes for the future – architects allowing their creativity to be unbounded by the concerns and confines of the real world, such as space or cost or limited technology. - The Conversation
