Christie’s Hackers Threaten to Auction Stolen Data—and More

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES MONET’S POPPIES VANDALIZED. Claude Monet’s famous 1873 bucolic Impressionist painting of a woman and child walking through a field of red poppies that all but engulfs them was vandalized Saturday at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris by a climate activist from…

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Sheffield Castle Excavations Yield New Discoveries of an Industrial Past

Archaeologists at the former site of Sheffield Castle have recently made intriguing new discoveries about the city’s steel manufacturing history. Sheffield City Council have been undertaking archaeological digs around the site of the original 12th-century castle since 2018. This April and May, archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology and construction engineers Keltbray have been commissioned by the…

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