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Weekly Roundup: July 19, 2026
It was difficult to choose merely five stories this week, so I have included a few additional headlines with links at the bottom of this week’s roundup.
1. Third looted painting from Goudstikker collection recovered from tras...
Weekly Roundup: July 12, 2026
1. Smithsonian responds to Trump administration criticism
The secretary of the Smithsonian, Lonnie G. Bunch III, has responded to the Trump administration’s 162-page criticism of the institution in a memo addressed to staff. In the m...
Weekly Roundup: July 5, 2026
1. Three Swiss museums set to return 18 Benin Bronzes.
After 130 years, Swiss minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider has visited Nigeria to announce the return of 18 Benin Bronzes. The 18 objects in this return were located in the Museu...
Bi-monthly Roundup: June 30, 2026
1. Stolen Picasso recovered in Paris drug bust.
An employee at a Paris storage facility admitted in court to the theft of a Picasso painting worth up to $17 million. French police discovered the painting during a routine drug bust i...
Bi-monthly Roundup: June, 2026
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1. Artificial intelligence identifies lost painting.
A family’s curiosity and the AI chatbot Gemini have helped identified a long-lost painting.
Interior: Lady in Black, Francis Cambell Boileau Cadell, c. 1920s. Phot...
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