Germany to return work by Dutch artist, stolen by Nazis, to Italy
Germany says it will return to Italy a painting by Dutch artist Jan van Huysum that was stolen by Nazi troops during World War II. The government said in a statement Saturday that Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and his Italian counterpart, Enzo Moavero, will travel ...
Rugby World Cup organizers tap traditional Japanese art for ticket designs
Rugby World Cup 2019 organizers on Monday unveiled their ticket designs for matches for the tournament, bringing a traditional Japanese flavor to what will be Asia's first-ever hosting of the event. Tickets for the Sept. 20-Nov. 2 tournament will feature rugby action scenes drawn in ...
Freyja Dean: Art, mythology and prog rock
Once an anatomical model maker, always an artist, Freyja Dean's work is inspired by science and mythology — and a little prog rock.
Ai-Da, the humanoid robot artist, gears up for first solo exhibition in Oxford
Wearing a white blouse and her dark hair hanging loose, Ai-Da looks like any artist at work as she studies her subject and puts pencil to paper. But the beeping from her bionic arm gives her away — Ai-Da is a robot. Described as "the ...
Artist Miwa Komatsu wows Cleveland audience with live painting performance at Shinto exhibition
Wearing a pure white hakama (wide-legged pants worn over a kimono), a young Japanese woman appears on stage in the glass-covered atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) in Cleveland, Ohio. She bows to the audience, turns to the gilded folding screen that is ...
Swiss court blocks Italy's bid for possible da Vinci portrait
Switzerland's highest court has rejected Italy's request for the return of an oil painting attributed by some to Leonardo Da Vinci, ruling no Swiss laws were broken when the work was brought over the border. Titled "Portrait of Isabella d'Este" and dated to the 16th ...
Artistic diversity thrives in the heart of Venice
Coinciding with the 58th Venice Biennale in Italy, the Karuizawa New Art Museum (KaNAM) Venice branch is holding an exhibition in a corner of the city’s Piazza San Marco through Nov. 24. While the world’s oldest large-scale art festival sees 89 countries present their ...
Taiwan's balloon 'Tank Man' marks run-up to 30th anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown
A Taiwanese artist has created giant inflatables of a tank and "Tank Man" — the lone protester who stood in front of a convoy of tanks on Beijing's Tiananmen Square — to mark 30 years since China's bloody crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. The ...
A sculpture by the American artist Jeff Koons sold on Wednesday for $91.1 million — a record price for a living artist — at an auction organized by Christie's in New York. "Rabbit," a stainless steel casting of an inflatable rabbit, was the star of ...
Miwa Komatsu: An artist's vision of Shinto and its divine beings
'When I was in elementary school, I was taking a nap under a tree in my garden. Then I had a dream, that would later come true, of having an exhibition as a painter and being an artist. That felt very real, and I ...
Leonardo da Vinci may have suffered traumatic nerve damage that left him with a "claw hand," impairing his ability to paint in later life, a new study says. The damage could have been the result of a fainting episode, according to Italian research published in ...
Here are some anecdotes about Leonardo's extraordinary life and work. 'Fake news' on death An 1818 painting by French artist Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres shows Leonardo breathing his last with his patron, France's King Francis I, at his bedside. The scene was inspired by an account in "Lives ...
