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The U.K. government has placed a ban on the export of an early-sixteenth-century bronze, valued at $6.2 million, in an effort to give British museums and galleries time to acquire the work and keep it on public display. Seated Nymph was sculpted by the Italian artist Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, also known as Antico, in […]

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Steven Edwards Steven Edwards (b. 1976, UK) is a ceramic artist based in the UK whose practice centres on material investigation, sculptural form, and the expressive potential of clay. Working from his studio in London, he explores the physicality of the medium through processes that examine the interplay of form, surface, and the act of […]

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