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Interpol has launched a new, free-to-download app to help law enforcers identify stolen art. It has already scored successes during pilot tests by police in Spain and Italy.

After three years of courtroom hostilities, the estate of the artist Robert Indiana and the artist’s former business partner said Friday that they had agreed to settle the legal disputes that cost the estate millions of dollars and clouded the market for a man known for such works as the sculpture, “LOVE.”

Arlington House, the Virginia mansion best known as the onetime home of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, has reopened to the public after a $12.3m restoration and the introduction of a new narrative that illuminates the lives of the enslaved people who lived there.

Following recent moves by European museums to return African art treasures to Nigeria, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Wednesday that it is sending three objects back to the country.​

Back in the 1980s, Japan dominated the market for Impressionist and Modern art—for example, importing $1.5bn worth of paintings alone in the first nine months of 1989. At one point it was estimated that a third of the world’s art sales was represented by Japanese buyers during the frenzied “bubble period” when all asset prices soared.

A year ago, the outlook for U.S. museums appeared grim: a July 2020 survey conducted by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) found that one-third of institutions across the country could close due to the devastating effects of the pandemic.

US President Joseph Biden has proposed a significant boost in funding for the country’s arts and culture agencies as part of his $6 trillion budget for the 2022 fiscal year, released on Friday. If approved by Congress, this would allocate $265m to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (an $8m increase compared to this year), $177.5m to the National Endowment for the Humanities (a $10m ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber last night said he could take ministers to court if they do not allow theatres to operate at full capacity from June 21.

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