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Priceless British Museum items stolen ‘may already be melted down’ expert warns

It is thought around 3,000 priceless items were taken from museum storeroom, ranging from 15th century BC to 19th century AD

The Independent UK

While access to ‘The Bean’ is limited, our city has other public art worth seeing

Chicago’s public sculpture portfolio is bigger than Cloud Gate. And now is as good a time as any to get around town and see some of it.

Chicago Sun-Times

British museum worker sacked over ‘stolen’ treasures

The Metropolitan Police is investigating how several items from the British Museum’s collection were stolen or damaged by a member of the institution’s staff.

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Stolen British Museum artefacts may have already been ‘melted down or sent abroad’, expert warns

Scotland Yard is investigating the incident but said no arrests have yet been made

Evening Standard

Ukrainian artist paints group portraits for refugees to gift to UK hosts

A British couple who received a Olha Son painting from the Ukrainian family living with them said it was ‘very moving’.

The Independent UK

Rail route of the month: the drama of an Alpine epic from Zurich to Graz

This exhilarating, nine-hour journey trundles through the Swiss and Austrian Alps and soars to more than 1,000 metres above sea level as it crosses the Rhine-Danube watershed

The Guardian - UK

Ticket to a nonsensical world? | Inside Toiletpaper’s largest show, ‘Run As Slow As You Can’, in Mumbai

Inside Toiletpaper and founders Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s investigation of “our hyper consumption of imagery”

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Hospital Rooms and Hauser & Wirth unite for a sensorial London exhibition and auction

Hospital Rooms and Hauser & Wirth are working together to raise money for arts and mental health charities

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Barbie sheds her plastic | Behind Adil Writer’s clay interpretation of the fashion doll

When Adil Writer, an artist from Auroville, reimagined the world’s favourite fashion doll Barbie in clay, and made her more body positive

The Hindu

Florida art museum sues former director over forged Basquiat paintings scheme

A central Florida art museum that was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has sued its former executive director and others, claiming they were part of a scheme to profit from the sale of the fake artwork

The Independent UK

Museum sues ex-director alleging he tried to profit from fake Basquiat paintings

Federal agents raided the Orlando Museum of Art last year and seized more than two dozen paintings

The Independent UK

New Jersey Supreme Court rules that Catholic school can fire teacher for being pregnant and unmarried

Case has spanned nearly a decade in state courts

The Independent UK

British Museum sacks staff member after items vanish from collection

Treasures including jewellery and gems kept in a storeroom were found to be missing, stolen or damaged, the London museum said

The Guardian - UK

British Museum boss reveals items have been stolen as staff member dismissed

The matter is under investigation by the economic crime command of the Metropolitan Police.

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MCA exhibit explores sense of place, intertwined history between Puerto Rico and Chicago

The MCA is hosting a new exhibit titled “entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico.”

The Independent UK

British Museum worker sacked after items found ‘stolen or damaged’

The matter is also under investigation by the economic crime command of the Metropolitan Police

Evening Standard

British Museum staff sacked after 3,000-year-old artefacts go missing

Scotland Yard are investigating

The Guardian - US

Florida museum chief tried to make millions from exhibition of fake Basquiat art, lawsuit claims

Aaron De Groft hoped to pocket commissions from auction of the works at show he arranged that was revealed to be a scam

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In Hyderabad, technology meets art for an interactive showcase

Synchronised Spectrum: Hyderabad technocrats and art enthusiasts Tanvir Nagore, Mehdi Saajid and Trilok Chander design an immersive new media art exhibition at Goethe Zentrum

The Independent UK

Artist wows Friends fans with incredible miniature replica of Monica’s apartment

Bridget McCarty has been making miniature versions of film and TV sets for 15 years

The Independent UK

Hozier on solitude, relationships and his new album: ‘I think everyone goes through their version of hell’

The Irish artist is releasing his long-awaited third record ‘Unreal Unearth’, which was inspired by Dante’s Inferno. He speaks to Roisin O’Connor about being a hermit, ‘the drug’ of co-writing songs for the first time, and writing his way out of heartbreak

The Guardian - UK

‘Deliberately obscure’: how to locate the weird world of hidden public art

Not all art is made to be hung on walls. From pinhole dioramas stashed in bollards to sculptures you need scuba gear to see, we meet the artists playing hide and seek with their viewers

Wallpaper

Inside Gucci ArtLab, the house’s vibrant hub for innovation and craft

Gucci’s high-tech training school and testing laboratory in Tuscany combines craft and science to shape the future of sustainable design

Chicago Sun-Times

Workers at the Art Institute and its school ratify 4-year union deal

The employees have affiliated with Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which has signed up members at other Chicago institutions.

The Guardian - UK

Brice Marden obituary

American painter who combined constant experimentation and a resistance to fashion in his work

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