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BROAD BRUSH
Sacred show
Photo shows a mask of the third Mesa Angwushahay’i during an auction of sacred objects from the Hopi and San Carlos Apache Native American tribes in Paris. The US embassy had asked Paris to suspend the sale of the colourful ceremonial masks, head-dresses and other objects after the failure on December 6 of a legal challenge by advocacy group Survival International on behalf of Arizona’s Hopi tribe |
Stolen art
People stand by stolen paintings exhibited at the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest during a ceremony as Romanian judiciary authorities returned
40 smuggled paintings and rare books worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to their Italian counterparts. The 19 oil canvases, three icons and 18 books dating from the 17th and 18th centuries were “illegally imported” by a Romanian art restorer, who spent many years in Italy |
At a snail’s pace
A man looks at green and red giant snails by the Cracking Art Group at the Fiumicino airport, near Rome. Photos: afp |
Christmas time
People attend the Christmas lights illumination along the Medellin river in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia |
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