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Times Sq. Sculpture Prompts Racist Backlash. To Some, That’s the Point.
A 12-foot bronze statue of an anonymous Black woman has become a lightning rod in a fraught American debate about race, ...
Failed auction of $70M bronze bust stuns Sotheby’s bidders into silence
The debacle involving an Alberto Giacometti statue left art insiders stunned and raised concerns about the high-end art ...
12-Foot Bronze Statue of Woman in Times Square 'Challenges Who Should be Rendered Immortal'
A 12-foot bronze statue of a young woman, entitled "Grounded in the Stars," is catching the attention of the art world and ...
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$70m Giacometti bombs at patchy Sotheby’s Modern art auction
Sotheby’s Modern evening sale in New York brought in $152m ($186.4m with fees) on Tuesday, 13 May, far below the auction ...
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Giacometti’s $70m Bust Fails to Sell in Sotheby’s Uneven Modern Art Sale
Sotheby's Modern evening sale brought in  152m (152 million (186.4 million with fees), falling short of its pre-sale ...
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Massive new SF exhibit explores Ruth Asawa’s ‘ordinary’ brilliance
One is the two-sided bronze Japanese American ... at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (SFMOMA) “San Francisco Sits for a New Portrait in a Fountain Sculpture” was the Sunset magazine ...
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Cleveland Museum of Art agrees to transfer ownership of ancient statue to Libya
Griswold, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The announcement comes on the heels of an agreement with Turkey on another statue earlier this month. An ancient Greco-Roman bronze statue that ...