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2018年，美國德州一位女士在當地的二手商店，以34.99美元的價格買到一件大理石頭像。這件頭像異常的沉重（近24公斤），並看起來很陳舊。買主覺得此件大理石頭像來歷不單純，向德州大學的藝術史學者與美國的拍賣行業者進行徵詢，後確認此頭像應該是西元前1世紀前後的作品。根據《藝術新聞》報導，該頭像所雕造的人物可能是羅馬帝國初年的著名將領尼祿．克勞狄．德魯蘇斯（Nero Claudius Drusus），為屋大維（Gaius Octavius Thurinus）的養子。​

本地藝術家程展緯上年轉行任「臥底」清潔工，深入了解港鐵外判清潔工的困境之餘，亦為工友爭取勞工權益。在疫情期間親睹前線清潔工的惡劣待遇，程展緯曾聯同工會促請政府與港鐵調整清潔工薪酬、改革評分制、向清潔工提供防疫物資及津貼等措施。幾天前（4日）政府宣布擴大「防疫抗疫基金」津貼的涵蓋範圍，程展緯在社交平台指自己「返了一整天工」，終於收到此項消息，強調「團結就是力量」。

NFTutto bene! It was only a matter of time before NFTs, which upended the art world in 2021, would take over some of Italy’s most prestigious arts venues. ​
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Three glass sculptures by artist Ai Weiwei were snatched from an exhibition at a gallery in Hamburg, Germany, during a daytime heist.​

俗稱「主教山配水庫 」的前深水埗配水庫在2020年清拆期間，被發現地底有個逾百年歷史的古羅馬式建築，後來被評為一級歷史建築，並由水務署開辦導賞團有限度地對外開放，只是早前因疫情嚴峻而暫停。隨著政府的防疫措施放寛，前深水埗配水庫導賞團將於5月16日重新開放參觀，每日舉辦三團，讓大家親身前來這座香港首個以圓形築成的地下配水庫，慢慢欣賞其仿羅馬式石柱、紅磚拱券等古蹟建築設計，從而加深認識九龍食水供應系統發展的歷史。水務署從今日（3日）起開始接受預約，不消半日所有個人及團體參觀時段已經全部額滿至6月底，最快要7月才有機會進去參觀了！

A British tourist could face the death penalty in Iraq after being accused of smuggling artifacts out of the country.​

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New York Art Week, having its inaugural run 5-12 May, was seeded last winter with a few conference calls among the leaders of New York-based art institutions and fairs. The Independent art fair founder Elizabeth Dee was on the phone with the likes of Noah Horowitz, formerly of Art Basel now of Sotheby’s, or White Columns director Matthew Higgs to brainstorm about the realities of a post-pandemic ...

行政長官林鄭月娥說，第二階段放寬社交距離措施會在本月19日，按時間表實施。​

The New York Hispanic Society announced Thursday that they have acquired ten new works, including an allegorical portrait of the painter Francisco Goya by Eugenio Lucas Velazquez.​

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Sonia Boyce of Great Britain has won the Golden Lion prize for Best National Participation at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (The Milk of Dreams, 23 April-27 November). Boyce’s work Feeling Her Way features a chorus of Black female voices set against tessellating wallpaper and golden 3D geometric structures. “The rooms of the pavilion are filled with sounds ...