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Banksy does Tokyo? Officials check if years-old graffiti is work of legendary British street artist
Officials are trying to verify if a drawing of a rat holding an umbrella, spray painted near a monorail station in central Tokyo, is the work of the famous and mysterious British street artist Banksy. "We noticed there is a drawing of a rat spray ...
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 ...
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 ...
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," ...
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 ...
A painting by French Impressionist master Claude Monet that belonged to a Japanese collector but was lost for decades after World War II is now back in Tokyo, a museum official said Tuesday. The oil painting, around 2 meters long (about 6½ feet) and 4.2 ...
Paintings created by an Indian elephant who enjoys wielding a brush were auctioned off by a Hungarian traveling circus on Saturday. Three of 42-year-old elephant Sandra's abstract canvasses, with colored lines flowing across them resembling rivers, fetched about 40,000 forints ($150) each. A painting depicting Sandra ...
Dutch museum's paintings held up as Hokusai samples of Western-style technique
Six works of art at a Dutch national museum may have been created by famed ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai, a researcher at the museum says. Five of the Edo Period artworks are paintings that used Western-style watercolor techniques and are believed to have been influenced ...
The opening of the Clara Francis Gallery on Wednesday in a renovated Harlem storefront was an exciting moment for Haile King Rubie. It was the first solo show for the 26-year-old painter, whose expressive works are all the more remarkable because he was born ...
Geographic profiling may reveal identlty of elusive artist Banksy
The elusive street artist Banksy may have been unmasked by mathematics. Scientists have applied a type of modeling used to track down criminals and map disease outbreaks to identify the graffiti artist, whose real name has never been confirmed. The technique, known as geographic profiling, is ...
Miwa Komatsu: 'It's absurd to accomplish anything by yourself'
Nagano painter on peace, purity and cultural influences worldwide
