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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 ...
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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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Beth Thames: Sculptor’s ‘Peace and Acceptance’ bronze statue now at this Alabama cemetery
He was invited to come to Lowe Mill by Jim Hudson, one of the owners and founders of the art center ... No, he doesn’t, but he says bronze statues like his are sometimes stolen from cemeteries ...
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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 ...
The Boston Globe25d
A citywide showing of major contemporary art aims to unseat Boston’s bronze statue ideal
The Boston Public Art Triennial will display dozens of pieces ... In Richmond, Va., a bronze statue of Robert E. Lee astride a horse became the hub of a nationwide takedown movement.
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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 ...