Sotheby’s to Hold an All-Female Sale – Sotheby’s will mount an online sale of work by female artists, including Rachel Whiteread and Dorothea Tanning, from May 20 through 27. The 26-lot sale is expected to generate £1 million. The house’s Marina Ruiz Colomer articulated the (somewhat contradictory) rationale for the event as follows: “Female artists should not be pigeon-holed nor segregated, which is precisely why we are holding a sale that appears to be doing exactly that in order to turn the tables and open up this debate.” (
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U.S. Returns 500 Smuggled Artifacts to Mexico – The U.S. department of homeland security has returned 523 objects, including pre-Hispanic-era stone arrowheads and tools, to Mexico. The pieces were originally seized in 2016 and, following investigation, were found to have been illegally smuggled and offered for sale in the U.S. (