On this week’s Thursday Top Five we discuss the Sotheby’s Botticelli sale, fake and stolen art, the discovery of mummies with gold tongues, and so much more!
Highlights
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This week’s Stories
Story 1: Botticelli Sold at Sotheby’s
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/arts/design/sandro-botticelli-painting-sothebys.html
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/sotheby-s-bulgari-product-placement
Story 2: Pre-Columbian Artifacts at Christie's
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/mexico-legal-claim-pre-columbian-art-christies-1234582784/
Story 3: Fake Gauguin at the Getty
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/getty-warned-about-fake-gauguin
Story 4: Missing Austrian Art
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/theft-in-austria-1939600
Story 5: Gold Tongue Mummies
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mummies-gold-tongues-tombs-alexandria-1941359
Emerging News
Damian Hirst at Galleria Borghese
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/damien-hirst-galleria-borghese-in-rome
IRL NYC Art Fair
https://news.artnet.com/market/hybrid-outsider-art-fair-1941264