Leonardo da Vinci’s recently rediscovered painting Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500) may very well eclipse the Mona Lisa in fame, though the reasons why have to do less with its art-historical significance than its market value—the painting sold for $450 million at a Christie’s auction in 2017. This paradox guides Andreas Koefoed’s masterfully told documentary The Lost Leonardo, which debuted this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. In just 95 minutes, Koefoed charts how the painting became the most expensive artwork of all time and how it mysteriously disappeared, in the process managing to offer new insights into a story that has been explored ad nauseam in the press.
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This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. New York and US federal authorities have returned 27 relics to Cambodia valued at $3.8 million that were stolen by antiquities traffickers, among them important Buddhist and Hindu statues, the Manhattan district attorney announced last Thursday. The probe resulting in the repatriation was led by the district attorney's office and the US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit. The HSI's special agent in charge, Peter C. Fitzhugh, described the works as "invaluable to the preservation of Cambodian history." A repatriation ceremony in New York was attended by Cambodian and Homeland Security officials.
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Today, cities across the globe, from Berlin to Hong Kong, have bustling gallery ecosystems—but it wasn’t always that way. During the 19th and 20th centuries, as gallery networks were forming in Paris, London, and New York, relatively small groups of dealers worked tirelessly to ensure that their presentations pushed art history forward. In the process, they helped formalize movements, from Impressionism to Cubism to Surrealism, and elevate artists who are now canonical in art history textbooks.
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The nonprofit Association for Modern and Contemporary Arab Art (AMCA) has launched a fundraiser in aid of the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research, which sustained heavy damage in May, when it was reportedly ransacked by Israeli occupation forces. Led by Julia Bryan-Wilson, a group of artists and educators including Ahmad Diab, Asma Kazmi, Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, and Nada Shabout are among those behind the effort, which is aimed at rebuilding the independent arts center founded by Golden Lion–winning Palestinian artist Emily Jacir with her sister, filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, in Bethlehem in 2014.
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Sebastian Ferreira is an artist/painter based out of Edgewater, NJ. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he grew up in Miami, FL with a passion for writing and lettering. He always took pride in his penmanship until he discovered graffiti in the streets. His artwork is currently an amalgamation of pop, abstract, and calligraphy. “I like to write my stories into my pieces, My portraits have a very morose and melancholic vibe to them.” He is heavily influenced by greats like Warhol, Kline, Retna, Soulages, Francoise Nielly, Cy Twombly, and more obscurely, Lester Johnson.
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