How a Tweet Led to the FBI’s Return of a Looted Nepalese Sculpture

Good morning. ☀️ Today, President Biden’s stimulus bill includes $470M for the arts, how a tweet led

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Good morning. ☀️ Today, President Biden’s stimulus bill includes $470M for the arts, how a tweet led the FBI to repatriate an artwork housed at the Dallas Museum of Art, and reviews of The Bronx Comes to Los Angeles and Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America. — Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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What's Happening

The looted status of a Nepalese sculpture in the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection has been well documented since the 1980s, but it took an art crime professor’s 2019 tweet for the FBI and museum to repatriate the religious artifact. Biden’s stimulus bill includes a total of $470 million in relief to arts and cultural organizations, far exceeding the respective $75 million allocated to the NEA and NEH in the Trump administration’s 2020 CARES Act.

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Latest Reviews

40 Years Later, Rigoberto Torres and John Ahearn Are Still Making Life Casts of Bronx Residents The Bronx Comes to Los Angeles presents Ahearn’s and Torres’s works side by side, and it is ultimately Torres’s sculptures that stand out. Elisa Wouk Almino

"Grief and Grievance" Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence A prophetic document of our time, the New Museum exhibition calls attention to the weight of Black death not because it is new or salacious but because it remains urgent. Rachell Morillo

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