National Gallery of Australia to return 14 looted artworks to India indianewengland.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indianewengland.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The National Gallery of Australia will remove 14 works from its Asian art collection and return them to the Indian government.
Worth a combined $3 million, 13 of the objects were purchased between 2002 and 2010 from Art of the Past, the now-infamous New York gallery run by disgraced antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor. And one came from the late New York art dealer William Wolff in 1989.
They comprise six stone or bronze sculptures, most dating back to the 11th or 12th century, as well as a brass processional standard, or alam , from Hyderabad dated 1851. There is a painted invitation scroll, or vijnaptipatra, from Rajasthan dated approximately 1835, and six photographs.
29 July 2021
Uplift Aerospace s first Suborbital Triptych, to be created by artist Amoako Boafo, will be applied to the three parachute cover panels on Blue Origin s New Shepard space capsule.
(Image credit: Blue Origin/collectSPACE.com)
Earlier this year, a prominent lifestyle magazine ran a profile of figurative painter Amoako Boafo, hailing his stratospheric rise among the upper echelons of the art world.
Little did they know at the time, the stratosphere would only be the start for where the 37-year-old Ghanaian s art was headed.
As announced on Thursday (July 29), Boafo will create Uplift Aerospace s first Suborbital Triptych, a three-panel painting that will fly into space on the outside of Blue Origin s New Shepard rocket. Through the physical stresses of its launch and re-entry, Boafo s artwork will be changed both literally and figuratively creating a unique record of the flight.
The NGA director, Nick Mitzevich, confirmed the gallery had in-principle agreement from the Indian government through the Indian high commission that they welcomed and would receive the works.
“The physical handover will be negotiated over the next couple of months, giving consideration to Covid and the ability to travel, as to whether it’s realistic to have it in India or Canberra,” he said.
“It’s unfortunate, and the institution is sorry for this development. We are doing all we can to avoid any future missteps of this kind,” Mitzevich said in the Australian. “It’s a historic issue … The NGA was part of an international fraud campaign that affected more than a dozen of the world’s leading institutions.”
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