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Hitler paintings fail to sell at Nuremberg auction amid doubts about authenticity
Five paintings attributed to Adolf Hitler failed to find buyers at an auction Saturday held amid anger at the sale of Nazi memorabilia. High starting prices of between €19,000 and €45,000 ($21,000 and $50,000) and lingering suspicions about the authenticity of the artworks were thought ...
Russian police said they have detained a suspect after a painting was stolen from a Moscow gallery Sunday, when the thief strolled unchallenged past visitors who mistook him for an employee. Red-faced officials said security would be stepped up at the State Tretyakov Gallery following ...
Banksy homage to Paris attack victims stolen from Bataclan theater
A mural by British street artist Banksy on a fire-exit door at Paris' Bataclan theater, where Islamist militants killed 90 people three years ago, has been stolen, the venue said Saturday. The work, one of a series of murals painted last June in the French ...
Bauhaus design marks centenary as disputes over legacy continue to swirl
Bauhaus, the design school that left its mark on everything from teapots to tower blocks and iPhones to Ikea, marks its centennial this year, touching off a politically charged debate about its lasting impact. The influence of Bauhaus, created during the turbulent period between World ...
Iconic creations of Bauhaus design spanning the last 100 years
As Bauhaus, the most influential design school of the 20th century, marks its 100th birthday, examples of its keep-it-simple elegance can still be found across the globe. The movement, based on the "form follows function" principle, revolutionized the practices of artists and artisans during 14 ...
But is it Nazi art? The business of shedding light on gifts with dark histories
When Georges F. Keller began donating paintings by masters like Henri Matisse and Salvador Dali to the Kunstmuseum in Bern, his reputation was not in doubt. The Swiss-Brazilian national had been a respected art dealer who gifted 116 works to the museum from the 1950s ...
Gem traces in teeth hailed as proof that women were involved in creating medieval texts
The discovery of traces of semiprecious gems in the teeth of a 1,000-year-old female skeleton proved women were more widely involved in creating medieval manuscripts than previously thought, a group of international historians said on Wednesday. A study by German-based Max Planck Institute for the ...
Gunma charcoal artist uses DIY spirit to lead full country life
In a mountainous farming village near Oze National Park, a popular eastern Japan marshland frequented by hikers, an artist who crafts accessories and ornaments out of charcoal is using a DIY spirit to lead a full country life. Michiko Setoyama, 39, a former accessory store ...
Goodbye Stalin: Moscow metro sheds Soviet look in bold new stations
Moscow's metro system is famed for its Stalin-era stations with glittering chandeliers and mosaics, but architects are taking a radical new approach as the network undergoes a massive expansion. While the original stations were conceived as "palaces for the people" in an era when the ...
A new work by enigmatic street artist Banksy has brought visitors flocking to the back of a car garage in Port Talbot, causing quite a stir in the south Wales steel town. The image appeared on Tuesday. Since then the local authority has brought in ...
China struggles to shed reputation as global capital of art copies
Ma Chunyan's hands appear to hold Vincent Van Gogh's swirling dreamscape vision of the night sky, the painter's iconic work "The Starry Night." But the 32-year old Chinese artist is actually handling a 1,000 yuan ($145) reproduction she made in one day from an image ...
In 2018, art came via many anniversaries in Japan
This year saw a lot of anniversaries in Japan. It was 1868 when Crown Prince Mutsuhito became the Emperor Meiji, the official policy of national isolation ended and the country was set on a course to become a modern industrialized nation-state. This birthday seems ...
