Getty Museum Ceases Talks With Italy Over Antiquities
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The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced it would cede only some of the antiquities that Italy says were looted from its soil.
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A London museum is seeking an out-of-court settlement over what to do with the ancient remains of 17 Tasmanian Aborigines, after Australian legal action was suspended, officials said Wednesday.
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A painting by the French artist Paul Cezanne that was lost for more than 60 years is to go on show in Italy.
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Italian officials said they will drop a civil lawsuit in the trial of the J. Paul Getty Museum's former curator after the Los Angeles institution formally signed a deal Tuesday to return 40 contested artifacts.
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The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria will close on Tuesday after 25 years of presenting new work by contemporary artists at 120 Park Avenue, at 42nd Street. The closing of the branch, which was expected, comes as Altria, formerly the Philip Morris Companies, prepares to relocate its corporate headquarters from the site.
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Getty Images, the worldâs biggest supplier of pictures and video to media and advertising companies, has put itself on the auction block.
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Treasures of King Tut, including his gold coffin, will bypass the Met because of a dispute over the admission charge.
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, one of the world's most celebrated art galleries, will not reopen after renovation work until 2010, two years later than planned.
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A tiny Umbrian village is taking on the mighty Metropolitan Museum in New York, claiming that one of its most exalted exhibits, an Etruscan chariot, was illegally exported from Italy 100 years ago.
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âNostoi: Recovered Masterpiecesâ does not pull its punches in explaining how objects made their way abroad: They were looted from Italian archaeological sites.
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Il ministro dei Beni culturali attacca dopo il riufiuto di restituire una parte delle sculture che, nel tempo sono state trafugate e sono finite negli Usa                                            Rutelli contro il Paul Getty Museum "Non possono esporre opere rubate"                                                                                      "Il confronto Ã¨ sospeso. L'hanno interrotto loro. Noi siamo aperti. Ma tutti i musei del mondo devono sapere che non possono tenere oggetti acquisiti illegalmente"
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A British cultural organization at the center of a dispute between the Kremlin and Britain closed its office in St. Petersburg under pressure from Russiaâs intelligence service.
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A leading museum has cancelled a talk by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist from the United States who reportedly claimed that black people are less intelligent than whites, it said Thursday.
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FLORENCE, Italy  - Italy plans to lend one of Leonardo da Vinci's best known paintings to Japan this month but opponents say the long plane trip could damage the masterpiece and are threatening to block the transfer.
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Italy told the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday it must return all disputed art works in its collection and said the era when respected museums could get away with displaying looted antiquities was over.
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Russian authorities have canceled a major exhibition of French and Russian paintings set to open in London in January, fearing the art could be seized to settle private legal claims, a museum official said Wednesday.
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Moscow calls off planned show of art masterpieces at Royal Academy in London as relations chill