A new exhibition has opened at the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, the former home of the famed Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo, which was converted into a museum by his nephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger. The exhibition is titled ‘Artemisia in the Museum of Michelangelo’ and celebrates the work of the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
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Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,700-year-old headless Assyrian sculpture at the site of the ancient city of Khursbad in northern Iraq. It was first discovered in 1992 but was quickly reburied to protect it against looters.
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Glasgow museums admitted that a £3million sculpture by the eminent French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) has been missing for nearly 75 years. Comité Rodin in Paris described the loss as “utterly shameful“, after museum staff were unable to locate the sculpture.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) in Ohio is suing the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office over the ownership of an ancient bronze statue valued at $20 million (£16.5 million). Government officials seized the impressive piece in August following allegations that it had been looted from Turkey.
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A bidding war between reality-star Kim Kardashian and retired American football player Tom Brady broke out at a charity auction over a $2 million (£1.6 million) painting by George Condo. The high-stakes auction and celebrity blackjack tournament raised a total of $24 million (£19.8 million) for Reform Alliance, an organisation that advocates for criminal-justice reform in the US.
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A bronze statue of the Buddha, valued at $1.5 million (£1.24 million), has been stolen from the Barakat Gallery in Los Angeles. Authorities believe the heist was pulled off by a single thief, who managed to transport the 250-pound sculpture through the gallery’s garden before escaping.
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A German court has sentenced a former technician at the Deutsches Museum in Munich to prison for stealing and selling artwork to fund his lavish lifestyle. The unnamed man, now aged 30, used the money from the audacious thefts to pay off debts as well as buy a new apartment, expensive watches, and a Rolls Royce.
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The Metropolitan Museum in New York has announced that the ownership of two objects in their collection is being transferred to the Republic of Yemen. In what has been described as a “custodial agreement”, the objects will remain on loan to the Met, given the civil war in Yemen.
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US authorities have returned seven artworks by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele (1890-1918) to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum (1880-1941), a Jewish cabaret performer and art collector who was murdered by the Nazis. Seized from collections throughout the US, the works are collectively valued at nearly $10 million (£8.2 million).
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UNESCO has reiterated its request for the UK government “not to proceed” with a controversial redevelopment of Stonhenge in Wiltshire. The recently approved scheme will build a dual-carriageway tunnel close to the prehistoric monument, which was constructed between 3000 BC and 2000 BC.
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