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Paris Museum Attendance Down for Olympics, Lost Bronze Statue from the Titanic is Found, ‘After Rembrandt’ Portrait Discovered in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million, and More: Morning Links for September 4, 2024

The Louvre. Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES TITANIC DISCOVERY. A believed lost bronze statue “Diana of Versailles” from the Titanic was found half buried at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean in a recent expedition to the site of the …

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Rebranded London Museum Receives $65 M. Cash Injection as Construction Costs Swell by $130 M.

King Charles follows Sharon Ament (L), director of the Museum of London, as he tours the Smithfield Market site. POOL/AFP via Getty Images The new London Museum has been handed an extra $65 million to help get its construction to the finish line. The institution has now eclipsed its original budget of $445 million from …

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Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Goes on View for First Time in Nearly 400 Years at Texas Museum

Artemisia Gentileschi, Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1625–26. Kimbell Art Museum The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired an Artemisia Gentileschi painting that has been owned by private collectors for nearly 400 years. When the work goes on view today, it will be the first time the painting has been exhibited publicly since the …

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Caitlin Berry Named Inaugural Director of Johns Hopkins’s New Frary Gallery in D.C.

Caitlin Berry. Will Kirk for Johns Hopkins University Caitlin Berry has been named the inaugural director of the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, a new university art gallery that is part of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. She began in her role in August. Berry was most recently the inaugural director …

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Artists and Creatives Are Working with AI Companies, but Should They?

A Teddy Bear figure from Sway Molina’s 2024 AI film “Our T2 Remake” is in front of Refik Anadol’s “Unsupervised” and an AI work by Alexander Reben. Images courtesy of Crocker Art Museum, Daniela Hritcu, Getty, and Sway Molina; Illustration by Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews. When Edmund Cartwright was at work creating the world’s first …

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