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A huge painting by Mark Rothko, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars, has been removed from display in a Dutch museum after it was damaged by a visiting child. Conservators will now ...
Art has forever mesmerised people. From the movements of air it captures with swaying grass and clothes, to the stillness of the night when just the moon lights up the sky, art can do it all.
Rare 16th-century Tudor wall paintings have been uncovered during renovations at The Ashes, a historic hunting lodge in Cumbria. Owners Jen and Richard Arkell stumbled upon the intricate wall ...
After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ...
We explain how a few big players wield enormous influence in the art world. By Zachary Small I cover the worlds of art and money. Museums provide the first draft of art history. They decide which ...
The unnamed child is responsible for damaging a 1960 Mark Rothko painting reportedly worth €50 (about $56 million) inside the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam. “The painting Grey ...
A founding member of the bureau’s specialist Art Crime Team, the Oregon-based agent was well-versed in art history — and trained to pose as a would-be buyer, authenticator or dealer of stolen ...
In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time. His sentimental, sanitized landscapes full of Christian motifs and storybook cottages, some of which were lit with tiny ...
A two-year conservation project has revealed the complicated development of a painting by the 16th-century Venetian artist Jacopo Tintoretto, which goes back on public display in Warwickshire ...
This year’s edition of Art Paris was, as always, the place to be in springtime for modern and contemporary art. The fair closed its doors on Sunday, April 6, having welcomed a record number of 86,975 ...
Meanwhile, her own work as an accomplished watercolor artist whose paintings may have inspired parts of Jane’s novels has been largely forgotten. Now, an exhibition at the Jane Austen House in ...