British artist Stuart Semple has released a new ultra-fluorescent pink paint, dubbed “Pinkie – The Barbiest Pink”, in response to Mattel’s trademark on “Barbie Pink”. Semple’s protest takes place just as Greta Gerwig’s hotly anticipated Barbie movie hits the big screen on 21 July. “Nature has already made all the colours, and corporations claiming them is just completely and utterly ridiculous,” said Semple.
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The Jackson Pollock Studio and Web3 platform Iconic have released a collection of NFTs titled “Beyond the Edge: The Jackson Pollock Studio Collection”, which includes NFTs of four cropped sections from Jackson Pollock’s studio floor.
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The Burrell Collection on the outskirts of Glasgow in Pollok Country Park has been awarded the prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year award, which comes with the generous prize money of £120,000. The Scottish museum has beaten finalists Leighton House and the Natural History Museum in London, The MAC in Belfast and the Scapa Flow Museum in Orkney, although each of these institutions received £15,000 for their spot as runner up.
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Swiss officials have restituted a 3,400-year-old fragmentary sculpture of Pharaoh Ramesses II (c. 1303 BC-1213 BC) to the Egyptian government. Stolen over three decades ago, the stone fragment was returned at a ceremony in the Egyptian embassy in Bern.
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Recent Sotheby’s Old Master sale in London failed to sell 35% of lots, reflecting an increasingly lacklustre market for historical art. Despite this, the 49-lot offering achieved a respectable £39.4 million (with fees) – the highest total for an Old Master sale in London since the pandemic.
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The National Portrait Gallery in London has reopened to the public after an astonishing £41 million renovation. Closed since 2020, the building has been extensively redesigned by Jamie Fobert Architects and heritage specialists Purcell. “It’s the great building Londoners never knew they had,” explained Jamie Fobert. “Our job was to open it up, tie its different eras together, and give it a new public face.”
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The remains of the city of Pompeii, which were first uncovered in the sixteenth century, have provided a wealth of archaeological insights since excavations first began in 1748. Frozen in time under volcanic ash, it has been considered to be a preserved snapshot of Roman life dating back to AD 79, when Mount Vesuvius erupted.
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The British Museum has been accused of copyright infringement by a Vancouver-based poet and translator, Yilin Wang. Wang has claimed that they did not receive any credit of reimbursement when their translations of poetry by Qiu Jin (1875-1907) were used in the museum’s exhibition ‘China’s Hidden Century’, which opened on 18 May 2023 and is due to close on 8 October.
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The Rijksmuseum waived their entrance fees as Rembrandt’s The Standard Bearer (1636) was put on display for the first time, after it was toured around the country following its purchase in 2021.
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The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) team have discovered an “extremely rare” Roman mausoleum, alongside some of the largest and most intact ancient mosaics ever found in Britain. It was unearthed below a South London construction site, just moments away from Borough Market and The Shard.
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