Ancient Shipwreck Looted in Mediterranean—and More Art News – RisePEI

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The Headlines

POLICE BLOTTER. An artwork supplier in Oak Bay, British Columbia, has been arrested for allegedly taking artworks on consignment or for appraisal, promoting some, and never notifying the house owners, CBC Information studies. The supplier could face fraud prices. (Authorities should not disclosing the particular person’s id whereas prices are being thought of.) Police have reportedly taken maintain of greater than 1,000 artworks in possession of the supplier, together with at the very least three work by Emily Carr. Throughout the Atlantic, over in Hamburg, Germany, police are on the hunt for 3 glass works by Ai Weiwei that have been stolen from Lumas Galerie throughout the day, the Every day Mail studies. Stated to be price nearly €30,000 (about $31,700) in complete, they every depict a hand giving the center finger.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL ACTION. Yet one more authorized merchandise: French officers say that a 2,000-year-old shipwreck within the Mediterranean off the coast of Cannes has been looted because it was found in 2017, CBS Information studies. “The losses of scientific and historic info are in all probability vital,” the nation’s tradition ministry and police stated in an announcement. It’s believed that the ship sunk within the 2nd century B.C.E. whereas carrying wine. A few of its clay containers are lacking; an investigation is underway. On a associated notice, consultants have decided that 19 cannons found in Georgia’s Savannah River got here from ships that the British scuttled throughout the Revolutionary Struggle.

The Digest

ARCHIVE FEVER. Enjoyable truth: The Library of Congress in the US owns some 15 million photographic images. For instance the breadth of these holdings, it’s presenting 400 of them in a brand new present, the Washington Publish studies. It has an intriguing title: “Not an Ostrich: And Different Photos From America’s Library.” In the meantime, artist and artwork historian David Clarke is making  42,000 pictures of Hong Kong that he shot over 25 years obtainable without spending a dime on-line, the South China Morning Publish studies.

Museums in Venice are sending provides to the Lviv Nationwide Artwork Gallery in Ukraine. It’s a part of an effort by a community of enterprise and nonprofits known as Save Ukraine Artwork 22 that was established to supply establishments within the war-torn nation with supplies to safeguard artwork. [The Art Newspaper]

The just lately opened Wairau Māori Artwork Gallery, which is the primary Indigenous public artwork museum in New Zealand, has named its inaugural director: Larissa McMillan. She was previously advertising and marketing supervisor of the Hātea Artwork Precinct within the metropolis of Whangārei, which incorporates the WMAG. [Ocula]

The fabled Met Gala arrives in New York on Monday, and the AP has a useful information to the festivities, which “began in 1948 as a society midnight supper.” Its theme this yr is “gilded glamour, white-tie.” [The Associated Press/Bloomberg]

Rockwell’s 1984 hit “Any individual’s Watching Me” serves because the soundtrack—and, maybe, the inspiration!—for one of many extra ingenious artwork museum Instagram posts in current reminiscence. Let’s not spoil it right here. [Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Instagram]

The Kicker

BUCKLE UP. In City & Nation, Mary Childs has a blow-by-blow account of a vigorous authorized warfare that started after the storied investor Invoice Gross purchased a large Dale Chihuly sculpture for his spouse and put in it at their house in Laguna Seashore, California. That is too baroque a story to summarize right here, however even these not within the saga could the opposite high-profile artwork disputes involving the rich and highly effective that the article consists of. At one level, the lawyer and legislation professor Leila Amineddoleh says, “It’s stunning that some collectors have subtle and refined style in artwork, however then use their artwork in vindictive or infantile methods.” [T&C]