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  • WebReview: Schiele, dark screen and pad battles

    Everyday, follow our selection of the best and worst the Internet can produce. Last night, Greek public broadcaster, ERT was shut down, to save money on… 12/06/2013

  • Dali gets the full treatment in Madrid

    The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia is reclaiming one of Spain’s most famous sons with a new exhibition on Salvador Dali. Dali is known as a… 29/04/2013

  • Stolen Rembrandt returned to museum

    Rembrandt’s “Portrait of the Father,” has been returned to the Serbian museum from where it was stolen seven years ago. Police found the painting by the… 14/03/2013

  • Family portrait at the Los Angeles County Fair

    Boys pose for a photo at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, California September 5, 2012. The nation’s largest county fair, running from August 31 to… 06/09/2012

  • Price is right for Akzo Nobel

    Dutch chemicals firm Akzo Nobel beat forecasts in the second quarter on higher revenue after it put up prices for its products. The world’s largest paint… 19/07/2012

  • Hall of “shame” – Chinese corruption exhibition

    Chinese artist Zhang Bingjian is “drawing” upon the huge problem of corruption in his home country to inspire his artistic creations. 18/07/2012

  • The murals of Asilah

    The walls of the old part of Asilah in northwest Morocco are glossed over white in preparation for “The Cultural Season”, a summer festival which includes a… 18/07/2012

  • Robert Combas’ ‘Greatest Hits’ plays in Lyon

    The Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon is holding the first ever retrospective of French painter Robert Combas, known for his wild, hectic often turbulent… 21/03/2012

  • Degas and the nude

    Degas and the Nude is a new exhibition at the Musee D’Orsay in Paris. The works on display span half a century although they are perhaps less well known than… 14/03/2012

  • Picasso’s Guernica gets robot health check

    One of Spain’s most iconic paintings – Pablo Picasso’s Guernica is undergoing a hi-tech health check. Every night a robot – nicknamed Pablito – uses… 01/03/2012

  • Egypt: art of the revolution

    The revolution may have slowed down, but political art is thriving in Egypt. It’s a new way of showing dissatisfaction with the slow pace of change. Graffiti… 23/02/2012

  • Picasso and British art

    Spanish artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso remains the 20th century’s single most important artistic figure, a towering genius who changed the face of modern… 20/02/2012

  • Richter exhibition arrives in Berlin

    The art of Gerhard Richter has finally returned home.   The ‘Panorama’ exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin looks back at over five decades of… 17/02/2012

  • A double for one of art’s most famous faces

    The “Mona Lisa” is arguably the most famous face on canvas. Now Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting has a double, unveiled by Spain’s Prado Museum. The find was… 02/02/2012

  • Churchill’s Marrakech connection

    The Leighton House Museum in London has opened a new exhibition called “Meetings in Marrakesh” focussing on the paintings of Sir Winston Churchill and Hassan… 31/01/2012

  • Spot the artist at the Gagosian

    More than 300 spot paintings by British artist Damien Hirst from 1986 to the present day have gone on show simultaneously around the world. For the first… 16/01/2012

  • NY’s Met welcomes Renaissance portraiture

    Contributions made by Italian portraiture to the history of art is the subject of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. ‘The… 03/01/2012

  • Kim Jong-il’s death inspires cheeky satire

    A North Korean defector and artist paints next to another work of his entitled “Marilyn Monroe”, which satirizes North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, in Seoul… 23/12/2011

  • Rare showing of Leonardo self portrait

    One of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous yet fragile works of art, his red chalk self portrait, is on public display, for only the third time ever. 06/12/2011

  • In the footsteps of Fernando Botero

    A city best known as the home of one of the world’s most notorious drug cartels, Medellin in Colombia is also the birthplace of artist Fernando Botero. Born… 15/11/2011

  • Artist Graça Morais show: ‘The Walk of Fear’

    Graça Morais’ latest exhibition was inspired by the news. One of the most renowned Portuguese painters, Morais’ new display has just opened in Oporto. 10/11/2011

  • Degas on display at London’s Royal Academy

    Obsessed by ballet, French artist Edgar Degas spent years drawing dancers; dancers warming up, rehearsing, backstage, in their dressing rooms and performing. 03/10/2011

  • A modern eye on Edvard Munch

    An exhibition of the works by Edvard Munch has opened in Paris before it moves to other cities in Germany and London. Edvard Munch, “The Modern Eye,” is… 29/09/2011

  • New Otto Dix works discovered

    Four previously unknown watercolours by Otto Dix have been discovered in Bavaria. They were painted using mixed techniques, watercolours worked over with ink… 01/09/2011

  • Artists show off body of work

    Crowds of some 30,000 turned up for this year’s World Body Painting Festival in Portschach in Austria. 04/07/2011

  • Art battle pitches France against US in Paris

    In this battle, the warriors’ weapons are palettes and paintbrushes: street artists from the US and France are fighting for the top prize in a so-called art… 03/05/2011

  • World’s richest man opens art museum in Mexico

    Some 16,000 silver hexagons cover the new Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, a museum which houses the art collection of the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim. The… 30/03/2011

  • Famed Delacroix defaced at Louvre-Lens

    Police in France have arrested a woman at the Louvre-Lens for allegedly defacing one Eugene Delacroix’s most famous works. The painting called “La Liberte… 08/02/2013

  • Picasso’s ‘Woman’ up for sale

    Impressionist master Pablo Picasso’s painting “Woman Seated by a Window” is to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London on February 5. “Woman Seated by a… 05/02/2013

  • Jail for Polish man who defaced Rothko painting

    A Polish man who vandalised a Mark Rothko painting worth millions of euros has been jailed for two years in Britain. The 26-year-old scrawled his signature on… 14/12/2012

  • Huge art haul as thieves thwart security

    Just a few minutes in the early hours of Tuesday morning were enough for thieves to pull off the biggest art heist this century. One estimate of the value of… 16/10/2012

  • Have Italian archaeologists found the real-life Mona Lisa?

    Italian archaeologists searching for the remains of the real-life Mona Lisa have found two more skeletons. The two bodies were found under the basement of a… 03/10/2012

  • Botched fresco draws crowds to Spanish town

    While Paris draws crowds with the Mona Lisa, a Spanish town is pulling in visitors with a disfigured fresco of Jesus Christ. The painting, in a church in… 25/08/2012

  • Four million dollar ‘pop art’ discovered

    A painting by celebrated ‘pop artist’ Roy Lichtenstein has turned up in a New York warehouse after being missing since 1970. The work, entitled ‘Electric… 02/08/2012

  • Italy: Has Mona Lisa’s skeleton been found?

    One of the world’s most enduring mysteries could be on its way to finally being solved if a skeleton found in Florence turns out to be that of Mona… 24/07/2012

  • ‘Missing Caravaggios’ uncovered in Italy

    Two art historians in Italy claim they have uncovered dozens of sketches and paintings that they believe are the work of Renaissance master Caravaggio. The… 06/07/2012

  • Bush back in White House for picture unveiling

    George W Bush has been back to the White House to unveil the official portrait of him that will hang with those of other former US presidents. The event… 01/06/2012

  • Controversial Zuma painting vandalised

    A controversial painting depicting South African president Jacob Zuma with his genitals out has been defaced. Two men covered the artwork with red and… 22/05/2012

  • Munch’s ‘The Scream’ sells for record $120 million

    One of the most iconic paintings in history has become the most expensive art work ever sold at auction. In twelve minutes of frantic bidding at Sotheby’s… 03/05/2012

  • ‘The Scream’ breaks art record at auction

    One of the art world’s most recognisable images – Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” has been sold in New York for a record $119.9 million, that is over 91 million… 03/05/2012

  • Serb police find stolen Cezanne masterpiece

    Serbian police have uncovered a masterpiece by French impressionist Paul Cezanne, which was stolen from a Zurich museum nearly four years ago. The Boy In … 12/04/2012

  • Lost Leonardo discovered in Florence?

    Art historians are excited by the apparent discovery of a fresco by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci behind a wall in the city hall in Florence. The… 12/03/2012

  • Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies dies aged 88

    The avant-garde Spanish painter,Antoni Tàpies has died in Barcelona aged 88. Tàpies was hailed as one of the biggest names in European contemporary art for… 07/02/2012

  • Restoration row over da Vinci masterpiece

    Two eminent French art experts have resigned over the way a Leonardo da Vinci painting has been restored. The pair claim the Louvre museum in Paris has… 30/12/2011

  • Back in the Day: van Gogh cuts off his ear

    December 23, 1888 Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh cuts off his own left ear, or at least part of the earlobe, after a row with fellow artist and close friend… 22/12/2011

  • Spanish master’s ’300 euro’ painting uncovered

    Experts from Dublin and Madrid have confirmed a painting thought to be worth around 300 euros is actually valued at closer to three million euros. The work… 29/10/2011

  • Artist Richard Hamilton dies

    The artist many believed to be the father of Pop Art, Briton Richard Hamilton, has died aged 89. Admired by peers such as Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys, his… 13/09/2011

  • Recovered Rubens replica shown to public

    A recovered replica of a Rubens masterpiece has been presented to the public in Greece, a decade after it was stolen in a robbery.   Undercover police… 08/09/2011

  • Painter Lucian Freud dead at 88

    Artist Lucian Freud, hailed as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century, has died at his London home aged 88. Freud passed away after an illness… 22/07/2011

  • Tributes flow after death of artist Cy Twombly

    The art world is mourning the death of American painter Cy Twombly. The artist has died at the age of 83 in Rome. Twombly was renowned for his large… 06/07/2011

  • Marilyn Manson launches exhibition in Vienna

    US shock-rocker Marilyn Manson has launched his first show as a painter in the Austrian capital Vienna. Entitled “Genealogies of Pain”, it is a… 25/01/2011

  • Jerusalem to Tehran, through Blum’s brush

    You are not likely to see Jerusalem if you are a holder of an Iranian passport, as an order on its last page prohibits any travel to the “occupied Palestine.”… 20/01/2011

  • Gargantuan Gauguin is record-breaker at Tate

    The first major exhibition of Gauguin’s paintings for over 50 years has just opened at the Tate Modern in London. 06/10/2010

  • Vienna 1900 Under the Spotlight

    The Foundation Beyeler has opened a new exhibition in Switzerland. The theme is contemporary art from Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. The show… 04/10/2010

  • Italian website allows a closer look at works of art

    0’00-0’15 Birth of Venus close-up Not many people ever get the chance to see a masterpiece like Boticelli’s Birth of Venus up close. Now an Italian company’s… 02/10/2010

  • World Bodypainting Festival makes a splash

    Billed as the most colourful event on the planet – nearly 30,000 people flocked to the 13th World Bodypainting Festival in Carinthia… South Austria. Over… 19/07/2010

  • Scientists unlock Mona Lisa secret

    It’s baffled both experts and admirers for centuries, but now Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous masterpiece the Mona Lisa appears to have given up more of its… 17/07/2010

  • Dennis Hopper retrospective opens in LA

    Passionate about all aspects of art, Dennis Hopper, although best known as an actor and filmmaker, clocked up more than six decades of painting, drawing… 13/07/2010

  • Turner painting sells for record auction price

    An oil painting by Turner has gone under the hammer for just over 35 million euros, a new record at auction for the British master. The Getty Museum in Los… 08/07/2010

  • Russian art, Impressionist, and unseen Faberge works up for sale

    In the art world, impression, cubism and the work of Fabergé are rarely found together.   But international auction house Sotheby’s has challenged that view… 24/05/2010

  • East meets West in Huiqin Wang art

    Almost 30 years of living in Slovenia has done little to break the links that painter Huiqin Wang has with the motifs and patterns of her native China. Her… 21/05/2010

  • Paris police probe multi-million euro art theft

    A daring art thief has snatched five masterpieces worth 500 million euros from a Paris museum in one of the biggest art robberies of all time. Police say… 20/05/2010

  • Painter Rocha in Picasso challenge

    Brazilian painter Fernando Rocha has set himself no small challenge – he wants to break Pablo Picasso’s record by completing more than 13,000 paintings in two… 09/04/2010

  • Art collection plundered by Nazis reunited

    Some 1,400 masterpieces were taken from the Folkwang Museum in Essen by the Nazis in 1937. Paintings by artists such as Kandinsky, Chagall or Kirchner were… 24/03/2010

  • DNA tests in search of Caravaggio

    It is one of the history of art’s coldest cases. Who killed the Italian Michelangelo Merisi or the painter more popularly known as Caravaggio – the town of… 11/03/2010

  • Kahlo collection on show in Brussels

    The world’s largest private collection of Frida Kahlo’s works is now on show in Brussels. Some 19 paintings, six drawings, an etching and various photos are… 08/03/2010

  • Pablo Picasso show in Moscow

    Hundreds of paintings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso have gone on display at the Moscow State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. It is the biggest Picasso… 03/03/2010

  • Gittoes’s Taliwood doc chosen by MoMA

    Described as a guerilla film maker, Australian artist George Gittoes has travelled to war zones around the world, filming, taking photographs and eventually… 10/02/2010

  • French impressionists go to Madrid

    Some of the finest works by Monet, Degas, Renoir and other French impressionist artists have been brought together in Madrid for an exhibition organised by… 02/02/2010

  • Slovenia shows off foremost modernist

    Painter Emerik Bernard may not be especially well-known but the 1937-born artist is considered one of Slovenia’s leading Modernists. For a number of years he… 08/01/2010

  • Botticelli and Rubens on show in Germany

    More than 80 works by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli have gone on show in Frankfurt in Germany. Meanwhile, in Munich, the Alte Pinakothek… 17/11/2009

  • Picasso in Helsinki

    The Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki is exhibiting an extensive collection of Picasso’s work from all periods of his life. Says Kristina von Knorring, the… 23/09/2009

  • Akseli Gallen-Kallela/Korean Contemporary Art

    An major exhibition of works by Akseli Gallen-Kallela has opened in Stavanger in Norway. Gallen-Kallela is Finland’s national painter, best known for his… 09/09/2009

  • Fresh China frescoes

    Construction workers digging a national water transport system to distribute water around China have stumbled upon an ancient royal tomb. The tomb, in… 08/07/2009

  • Michelangelo – did he or didn’t he?

    A small picture called “The Torment of St Anthony” is on display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and attracting much attention. It is a painted copy… 22/06/2009

  • Modigliani returns to Germany after 20 years

    Maybe one reason so many top models are skinny is that they are inspired by Amedeo Modigliani. Now the “Bundeskunsthalle” in Bonn presents the first… 21/04/2009

  • Kandinksy in Paris

    Nearly one hundred paintings by abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky are on display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris until early August. 13/04/2009

  • Is mystery man in painting Leonardo da Vinci?

    A picture of a middle-aged man with piercing eyes and long hair may be a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, in fact some people claim it may even be a… 06/04/2009

  • Thousands queue for Picasso marathon show

    Tens of thousands of people have queued overnight in Paris for the final chance to see an exhibition of work by Picasso and the grand masters who inspired… 02/02/2009

  • Hispanic archaeological treasures come back to Spain

    400 archaeological jewels of the Hispanic Society have returned to Spain, after being over a century in New York. Created by Archer Milton Huntington in New… 05/01/2009

  • Turner exhibition defies diplomatic differences

    One of Britain’s most celebrated artists, J.M.W. Turner, is on show in Moscow’s Pushkin Museum. The exhibition was negotiated by the British Council, which… 24/11/2008


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