19th-century shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan after 60-year search – The Art Newspaper
“Shipwreck hunting is a passion, a disease—once you start, you cannot quit,” says the shipwreck hunter Paul Ehorn. The 80-year-old ...
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Remains of 19th-century schooner resurface on New Jersey coast – The Art Newspaper
As unusual as it may sound, there are times when shipwrecks find their way back to land—a result of erosion ...
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Inside the 19th-century Parisian club that became a safe haven for female artists – The Art Newspaper
“All good Americans when they die go to Paris,” remarked Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-84), the notorious Boston wit and unrepentant snob—a ...
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MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs – The Art Newspaper
In a very rare and likely precedent-setting agreement, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston has agreed to return two ...
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Adam Lindemann opens exhibition of 19th-century African sculpture and contemporary Black abstraction
In the lead-up to the reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the end of ...
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Behind Ukraine and Russia’s battle over 19th-century seascape painter
For more than a decade since Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in March 2014, Russia and Ukraine have battled over ...
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New London hub with ‘affordable’ artists studios to rise from ruins of 19th-century warehouse
A disused 19th-century warehouse in east London will be transformed into an art hub with studios for more than 40 ...
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