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For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure. Now his baroque paintings are jolting the internet. Belgian museums are uniting in protest against Facebook because they cannot promote Flemish masters, including ...
Art dealer 'finds' six Willem de Kooning artworks in New Jersey storage unit
When an American art dealer dropped $15,000 on what he thought was "junk" in a New Jersey storage locker, he never imagined it could be the deal of a lifetime. But he now believes stashed in the unit were six paintings by Dutch-American abstract master ...
At first glance, it may seem like just a black truck filled with bottles of water, but a closer look reveals a darker — or rather murkier — side to what's sloshing around inside. Its cargo of more than 500 bottles of Nongfu Spring, a ...
France celebrates Japanese culture with huge eight-month festival
France has opened the largest celebration of Japanese culture ever to take place abroad. The eight-month festival Japonismes 2018 features everything from prehistoric art to what the organizers bill as Europe's first virtual reality concert. "It's the largest extravaganza of its kind ever held outside Japan," ...
Yuki Tatsumi was waiting tables at an izakaya pub in the city of Kyoto when something on the table caught his eye — a chopstick wrapper folded and fiddled into an abstract shape. It was the catalyst for the creation of a collection that now ...
An artist has emerged from three days entombed in a steel box under a busy Australian road in a performance billed as a tribute to victims of totalitarian violence. Mike Parr, 73, fasted during his time underground, with oxygen pumped into the 1.7-meter (5.5-foot) by ...
British artist Andy Brown captures essence of baseball through paintings
Some baseball fans carry a glove to a game hoping to catch a ball. Andy Brown is a little bit different. Brown doesn't go to games in search of foul balls. He carries some paint, a few brushes and other supplies. What he hopes to ...
One of Russia's most famous paintings, which depicts Czar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, has been badly damaged after a man attacked it with a metal pole after drinking vodka. The canvas, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581," ...
Buy what you like, sell what the market fancies: Top collectors reveal how to make a fortune in art
Andy Warhol once said: "Making money is art." But what about making money from art? A boom in the global market has delivered some eye-popping returns in the past few years, drawing new collectors keen to invest in an asset class that offers cultural as ...
Goldfish-filled phone booth to be removed from Nara shopping street after accusations of plagiarism
An art installation featuring a telephone booth filled with water and dozens of goldfish will be removed from a spot in front of a coffee shop in Nara Prefecture after the work was said to be plagiarized, the local body managing the property said ...
Artist Rob Judges: A boombox of creativity
Inspired by retro vibes, hip-hop, street slang and graffiti, artist Rob Judges says be unique and don't succumb to all the new tech of today.
Sentence overturned for Picasso's electrician, convicted for possession of stolen artwork
France's highest appeal court has overturned the conviction of Pablo Picasso's former electrician and his wife, who were given suspended sentences for keeping 271 of his works in their garage for four decades. Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec were given two-year suspended jail sentences in ...
