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PHOTO FINISH. A person pushed over and shattered a porcelain sculpture by Chinese language dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Friday on the opening of his solo present “Who am I?” in Palazzo Fava, Bologna, reviews Maximiliano Durón for ARTnews. Caught on CCTV, 57-year-old Czech Vaclav Pisvejcm will be seen stepping onto the plinth supporting Weiwei’s piece, Porcelain Dice, and pushing it over. He then lifts a big, damaged piece of it over his head earlier than he’s tackled by three males. Pisvejc has a repute for vandalizing artworks and was promptly arrested following his newest stunt. Within the meantime, the damaged sculpture was eliminated and changed by {a photograph} of the unique.
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FROM HOLLAND WITH LOVE. The Netherlands repatriated 288 artifacts to Indonesia on Friday, in what’s the nation’s second effort at restitution since a 2020 Dutch authorities report recommending the return of unethically obtained artworks from former colonies, reviews The New York Occasions. The objects included Buddhist statues, weapons, and jewellery courting again centuries, and had been formally requested by the Indonesian Repatriation Fee, which plans to show them within the Nationwide Museum in Jakarta. They had been being displayed within the World Museum in Amsterdam.In one other case of repatriation, this time from a person appearing alone, Paolo Catti De Gasperi, the grandson of Italy’s former prime minister, Alcide De Gasperi, has returned a precious Greek vase that was offered to his grandfather by Greek prime minister Alexandros Papagos throughout a 1953 state go to, reviews Kathimerini. The Fifth-century BC vase was a thanks present for one more act of necessary repatriation, although on a a lot bigger scale: After shedding WWII, De Gasperi ceded the Dodecanese islands to Greece, an space Italy had captured from the Ottoman Empire in 1912.
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In one other act of generosity, The New York Occasions chief artwork critic Holland Cotter is donating the $50,000 he was just lately awarded for the 2024 Rabkin Prize. He’s giving $25,000 to the Forge Mission in New York, in keeping with the Indigenous, cultural nonprofit, which stated on social media the present will help indigenous arts writers and artwork criticism. The opposite $25,000 is for the Worldwide Affiliation of Artwork Critics’ grant for an rising critic, in keeping with the AICA’s Instagram announcement. [Forge Instagram, AICA Instagram]
French minister of tradition Rachida Dati has held onto her job amid a authorities shake up by newly appointed prime minister, Michel Barnier. This comes regardless of her indictment for “passive corruption” in previous dealings with former Renault chief, Carlos Ghosn. [Le Monde]
The way forward for Germany’s Kunsthalle Baden-Baden artwork heart is doubtful, with state plans to shut the establishment for years of renovations beginning this yr. The refurb is placing jobs in danger and should finally eradicate its up to date artwork programming. “We concern that there’ll by no means be an impartial artwork gallery in Baden-Baden once more,” stated Cagla Ilk, director of the establishment. [Monopol Magazine]
The MUUS Assortment has acquired the property of late American photographer Larry Fink. The for-profit agency will host an exhibit of the photographer’s work, curated by Lucy Sante at Paris Picture in November, and launch a brand new monograph of Fink’s work. [The Art Newspaper]
Iran’s historical Persepolis ruins, within the former capital of the Achaemenid Empiren, are being threatened by lichen which can be steadily consuming away on the the Sixth-century BC heritage website. “Industrial improvement” has contributed to the unfold of lichen, which have already broken “quite a few advanced patterns” on the traditional ruins, in keeping with native scientists. [Le Figaro]
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LOUVRE LOCKDOWN. For the primary time in its storied historical past, a girl is main the Louvre museum’s safety operations in Paris. Dominique Buffin, 45, sat down with Le Monde’s Roxana Azimi to debate taking on into the function after a short trial by hearth through the Paris Summer time Olympics, and because the museum stays on excessive alert. However Louvre president Laurence des Vehicles – herself the primary lady to guide the museum — insists Buffin’s nomination had nothing to do with gender. “She was the perfect candidate. Her expertise speaks for itself,” she advised Le Monde.