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Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, 2013. License

One of Japan’s 20th Century Collections Under Threat of Liquidation

Despite holding one of the most emblematic collections of 20th century western art in Japan, Chiba Prefecture’s Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art is now facing serious threats of dissolution.…

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Photography

Diane Allison, Blue flower with bee.

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Asian Art

Edgar Degas, The Dance Class, 1874. Oil on canvas. 32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in. (83.5 x 77.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Drawing

Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) installation image at Lightroom, London.

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Contemporary Art

Wallace Chan, Vessels of Other Worlds, Venice Rebirth sculpture

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Ancient Art

An archeological site in Malatya, Turkey. Source.

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Renaissance

The School of Athens, this fresco will be featured again with more detail for screen-readers later in this slideshow

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Gallery

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LGBTQ Artists

Frances Cranmer Greenman, Self Portrait, 1923. Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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Auction

Tiffany’s Patek Philippe watch collection. Source.

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Design

The baths of Caracalla.

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Antiques

Euros bills hanging to dry on a clothes line

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Women Artists

Farming Textiles installation, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, Netherlands, 2024.

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Indigenous Art

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith French-Cree / Shoshone / Salish 1940 - 2025 Camas I, 1980 lithograph on buff Arches, Bon á Tirer 22 3/8 x 30 in. (56.8 x 76.2 cm.) Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000

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Black Artists

Jacob Lawrence, Harriet Tubman Series (Panel #4), 1940. Tempera on hardboard, unknown dimensions, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia.

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Latin American Art

SP-ARTE 2026. Courtesy SP-Arte/Divulgação

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Fair

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Sculpture

Preston Singletary, Journey of Hearts, blown and sand-carved glass, 19.75h x 33w x 26d.

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Museum

The New York Historical, 2019. Source.

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Painting

Peter Paul Rubens, detail of Portrait of the Artist, 1623. Oil on panel. The Royal Collection.

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Modern Art

Monet’s Garden in Giverny, View of the Water Lily Pond

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