Fossils
Art marketcomment
Can co-opting celebrities, luxury and fossils power up the art business?
The rich are still looking to buy art, but they want it buttressed by personalities and entertainment
Repatriationnews
Chile returns 400-million-year-old fossils to Morocco
The 117 artefacts had been smuggled into South America within the past several years
Brazil’s National Museum receives donation of more than 1,100 fossils—including those of rare dinosaurs
The museum has been slowly rebuilding ever since an electrical fire devastated its building and collection in 2018
Art marketnews
Regent’s Jurassic Park: dinosaurs go on sale at Frieze Masters, but it is a highly complex—and laborious—market
David Aaron gallery’s £1m sale of a 154 million-year-old Camptosaurus skeleton highlights collectors’ growing interest in fossils