Karen Ho

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Karen Ho

2 hours agoThese Pandas Are Enjoying Their Lunch With So Many Looking On!Pandas love bamboo and we love watching them eat it. These three panda cubs recently had an exclusive bamboo lunch party in their Sichuan Province park, just for our enjoyment. Thanks to the iPanda platform, panda bear enthusiasts, which is pretty much everybody on the planet, can enjoy round-the-clock footage of these beautiful creatures. Yair Ben-Dor has more.

2 weeks ago | artnews.com | Karen Ho

A recent Sotheby’s sale of 55 Old Masters works, collected over decades by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, yielded just $64.7 million, far below the initial estimate of $80 million to $120 million. The single-owner sale on May 21 featured works spanning the 16th to early 19th centuries, and included works produced across Europe. Two of the sale’s 43 lots were withdrawn ahead of the auction, while 17 did not sell once the event took place.

2 weeks ago | artnews.com | Karen Ho

The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced that it will return three ancient sculptures to Iraq, dating from 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. They are estimated to be collectively worth $500,000. The items are a Sumerian vessel made of gypsum alabaster (ca. 2600–2500 BCE) and two Babylonian terracotta sculptures (ca. 2000-1600 BCE) depicting a male head and a female head, respectively.

2 weeks ago | artnews.com | Karen Ho

The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) recently returned 11 objects to an Aboriginal community in Northern Australia. A kangaroo tooth headband and 10 glass spearheads, some of which are more than 100 years old, were voluntarily returned by the museum to the Larrakia Community of Australia’s Northern Territory in a handover ceremony on May 20.

2 weeks ago | artnews.com | Karen Ho

The Getty will reopen the Getty Villa on June 27 with a large exhibit on art and artifacts from the Late Bronze Age in Greece, per an announcement from the institution. The Villa closed on January 7 due to the threat of the Palisades Fire, which burned the grounds, destroyed 23,448 acres as well as consumed the homes of many artists and art professionals. On January 7, 17 members of the Getty’s facilities, grounds, and security staff volunteered to stay on site to protect the museum.