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The Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n STICKING IT TO HITLER<\/strong>. A previously unseen trove of World War II\u2013era photographs by\u00a0Lee Miller<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Cecil Beaton<\/strong>\u00a0has surfaced in a carefully preserved, personal scrapbook by their former assistant,\u00a0Roland Haupt,<\/strong>\u00a0reports the\u00a0\u00a0Times of London<\/em>. The discovery of this \u201cempirical time capsule\u201d is being celebrated as one of the greatest photographic records of the pivotal period in world history, and yet, for decades, it sat out of sight in the home of Haupt\u2019s descendants. That is about to change, as the\u00a0University of Oxford\u2019s Bodleian Libraries<\/strong>\u00a0has managed to acquire the book, which includes the iconic photo of Miller in Hitler\u2019s bathtub\u2014her way of \u201csticking two fingers up at Hitler,\u201d according to Miller\u2019s son. In a sign of their deep trust in their assistant, both Miller and Beaton sent their films to Haupt in London to be printed from their various, far-flung locations. He would then forward their images to magazines like\u00a0Vogue\u00a0<\/em>. It was a surprise to discover that, \u201cknowing what she had in the can, [Miller] was entrusting her film to this man,\u201d said dealer\u00a0Michael Hoppen<\/strong>. \u201cHe has clearly been instrumental in showing us how extraordinarily brave this woman was.\u201d<\/p>\n KAHLO CAN COME HOME<\/strong>. Following an\u00a0outcry,\u00a0artworks by\u00a0Frida Kahlo<\/strong>\u00a0and other Modern Mexican artists in the\u00a0Gelman Collection<\/strong>\u00a0will be returned to Mexico in 2028, following their loan to Spain, reports\u00a0dpa\u00a0<\/em>. Professionals in Mexico\u2019s arts community had protested the initially vague plans to export the collection of 160 artworks, seemingly for an indefinite period of time, to the Santander bank\u2019s new cultural center, the\u00a0Faro Santander<\/strong>. As a listed national treasure, Kahlo\u2019s works are protected, which means they can only leave Mexico temporarily. Now, in compliance with Mexican law, the administrators of the collection at the\u00a0Fundaci\u00f3n Santander<\/strong>\u00a0have agreed on a set timeline for their return.<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tBillionaire art dealer\u00a0David Nahmad<\/strong>\u00a0and his family have lost an 11-year-long legal dispute over a prized\u00a0Amedeo Modigliani<\/strong>\u00a0painting looted during World War II, handing a restitution victory to heirs of its original Jewish owner,\u00a0Oscar Stettiner<\/strong>. [ARTnews]\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tOn Friday night, the\u00a0Trump<\/strong>\u00a0administration filed an appeal to a judge\u2019s order to stop construction on a White House ballroom, arguing that halting the building project would threaten the safety of the president, his family, and White House staff. [The Washington Post]<\/p>\n \n\tCanadians are opting out of vacationing in the US, which is hurting attendance at smaller museums and institutions along their shared border. [The Art Newspaper]<\/p>\n \n\tArt historian and curator\u00a0Charlotte Gere<\/strong>, who tracked the jewelry of architect\u00a0William Burges\u00a0<\/strong>and encouraged the appreciation of 19th-century\u00a0art, including in books that became standard references, has died at age 88. [The Guardian]<\/p>\n \n\tAfter two\u00a0Smithsonian<\/strong>\u00a0trustees stepped down a month ago, their positions are still empty as President Trump seeks to get his favored candidates onto the board. [The New York Times]<\/p>\n The Kicker<\/strong><\/p>\n THE ART OF IMITATION<\/strong>. A famed but creatively stagnant, aging painter, and a young, talented art restorer posing as an assistant with plans to forge his works are the protagonists of the intriguing plot of\u00a0Steven Soderbergh<\/strong>\u2019s latest film,\u00a0The Christophers,<\/em>\u00a0as described by the\u00a0\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>. For regular\u00a0ARTnews\u00a0<\/em>readers, parts of this fictional story may sound only somewhat realistic. An unexpected kinship develops between the would-be forger (Lori Butler, played by Michaela Coel) and the artist (Julian Sklar, played by Ian McKellen). The latter ultimately finds \u201can artistic and intellectual near-equal,\u201d in Lori, who is not afraid to offer an unsparing critique of the artist\u2019s practice\u2014to his surprising delight. The question remains whether Lori will ever apply her talent at imitation to expressing her own voice, and forego \u201cthe art of \u2026 becoming someone else\u201d for that of becoming herself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/lee-miller-scrapbook-gelman-collection-morning-links-1234780035\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-160803222.jpg?w=1024″] The Headlines STICKING IT TO HITLER. A previously unseen trove of World War II\u2013era photographs by\u00a0Lee Miller\u00a0and\u00a0Cecil Beaton\u00a0has surfaced in a carefully preserved, personal scrapbook by their former assistant,\u00a0Roland Haupt,\u00a0reports the\u00a0\u00a0Times of London. 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