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An Oxford Museum May Have Accidentally Kept a Rembrandt Painting Languishing in Its Basement for 40 Years, New Tests Suggest

A painting once rejected as a lowly copy of the work of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn may be the real thing after all, announced the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on Friday. New scientific research has ...
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How Much Does It Cost to Put on a Jeff Koons Show? Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum Just Spent $1 Million

Jeff Koons’s big, shiny sculptures have the wow factor, but borrowing them for a museum comes at an eye-watering cost. Oxford’s Ashmolean spent just over $1 million transporting and installing 17 of ...
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Ashmolean Museum In Bitter, 20-Year Dispute Over Augustus John Works

(MENAFN- USA Art News) Three brothers, heirs to part of an art collection that belonged to their grandfather, are in dispute with the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK. The Ashmolean, founded in 1683 by ...
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Met Gala 2024: Ashmolean Museum's exhibits have uncanny similarities

Zendaya wore Dior - inspired by glass grapes on a hooked stem of bronze and wood from Egypt (c. 1353-1336 BCE) perhaps? A museum has playfully compared a selection of its exhibits to the eye-catching ...