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Icom publishes “red list” of Egyptian antiquities at risk
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The International Council of Museums (Icom) published an “emergency red list” of Egyptian cultural objects at risk of being illegally traded earlier this month. It presents categories of objects (rather than individual looted pieces) that should not...
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Birmingham’s children are “culture starved”, says tourism report
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Research commissioned by the tourism body Visit Birmingham has branded millions of British children “culture starved” after it found that four in ten children aged five to 12 have never visited an art gallery, while 17% have never been to a museum...
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Banderas takes on Picasso in biopic
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Spanish movie star Antonio Banderas has been signed up to play Picasso according to the Daily Mail. The new biopic, entitled 33 Days, will focus on his relationship with his French muse Dora Maar, and how the Cubist pioneer conceived and created...
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Police raid criminal gang suspected of faking antiquities
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A two-and-a-half-year-long suspected archaeological fraud involving thousands of forged Greek and Etruscan artefacts, a hospital x-ray machine, a philanthropic aristocrat and a sophisticated network of forgers has come to an abrupt end after police...
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Hand-Pulled: Ohio Printmakers - Lima, Ohio
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$1,200 in awards. Deadline: April 7, 2012
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International Art Festival Competition - New York, NY
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$3,000 in cash prizes, solo show, Fine Art mag publication. Deadline: April 30, 2012
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