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Loans Committee at Uffizi Gallery Quits En Masse After Raphael Painting Heads to Rome

Uffizi director Eike Schmidt said the work will be a centerpiece of a blockbuster retrospective in Rome.

• By
  Tessa Solomon
• Feb 26, 2020 3:16 pm

• Market

John Giorno Dies, Uffizi Director Wins Contract Extension, and More: Morning Links from October 14, 2019

Here's what we're reading this morning.

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  The Editors of ARTnews
• Oct 14, 2019 9:00 am

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Bardo National Museum Enters Into Cultural Exchange With Italian Institutions

Following the terrorist attack at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis last March, Seifallah Lasram, the city’s mayor, has entered into a cross-cultural partnership with the mayor of Turin, Italy…

• By
  Hannah Ghorashi
• Dec 21, 2015 10:29 am

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German Art Historian Eike Schmidt Appointed Director of Uffizi Gallery

Eike Schmidt, a German art historian currently working at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, has been named director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Schmidt will be the first non-Italian director…

• By
  Hannah Ghorashi
• Aug 18, 2015 3:58 pm

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The Artistic Influences that Made Artists Artists

Hank Willis Thomas, Pat Steir, Deborah Kass, and others reflect on their early encounters with art and the childhood experiences that shape their work

• By
  Ann Landi
• May 27, 2014 7:00 am

• Retrospective

Retrospective: When Mona Lisa Went Back to Italy

And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago

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  The Editors of ARTnews
• Dec 4, 2013 8:00 am

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Playing the Fool

Francesco Clemente takes on the Tarot card, using friends Brice Marden, Philip Glass, Diane von Furstenberg--and himself--- as models

• By
  Stephanie Murg
• Mar 15, 2012 9:00 am