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Rubens Oil Sketch: DCMS Export Ban Aims To Save Masterpiece For The Nation

Rubens Oil Sketch: DCMS Export Ban Aims To Save Masterpiece For The Nation

by News Desk | Jun 17, 2025 | News

A rare oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens, Cimon Falling in Love with Efigenia (c. 1616–17), now faces an export bar in a bid to retain the work for the UK. Valued at £8.4 million, the piece—a vibrant preparatory study for Rubens’ later painting in Vienna’s...
Joel Shapiro: Sculptor Who Made Wooden Beams Dance Has Died Aged 83

Joel Shapiro: Sculptor Who Made Wooden Beams Dance Has Died Aged 83

by News Desk | Jun 16, 2025 | News

Joel Shapiro (1941–2024), the American sculptor whose deceptively simple wooden figures pulsed with life, tension, and wit, died on Saturday in Manhattan at 83. His daughter, Ivy Shapiro, confirmed his death from acute myeloid leukaemia. Shapiro’s work—lean,...
Maurizio Cattelan Golden Toilet Caper Ends In Jail Time For Career Criminals

Maurizio Cattelan Golden Toilet Caper Ends In Jail Time For Career Criminals

by News Desk | Jun 13, 2025 | News

A story that played out like a comedy caper has now finished in the courts. Two men have been sentenced for their part in the infamous 2019 theft of America—a solid gold, fully functioning toilet by Italian provocateur Maurizio Cattelan, valued at £4.8 million. The...
Lost Rodin Marble Sells for $1.2 Million In A French Auction

Lost Rodin Marble Sells for $1.2 Million In A French Auction

by News Desk | Jun 10, 2025 | News

A rediscovered Auguste Rodin marble sculpture, kept in plain sight for decades atop a piano in a French family home, has fetched €1.1 million ($1.2 million) at auction last weekend. The piece, Le Désespoir (ca. 1892–93), had gone unnoticed by its owners until...
Tate Liverpool: Waterside Transformation Backed By Major Funding Injection

Tate Liverpool: Waterside Transformation Backed By Major Funding Injection

by News Desk | Jun 9, 2025 | News

Liverpool’s cultural landscape is set for a dramatic change as Tate secures £12 million in government funding alongside major private donations for its landmark redevelopment. The investment, drawn from DCMS’s Public Bodies Infrastructure Fund and bolstered by the...
East End Art Dealer Jailed in Landmark Terror Financing Case

East End Art Dealer Jailed in Landmark Terror Financing Case

by News Desk | Jun 7, 2025 | News

London – In a landmark prosecution, art dealer and television personality Oghenochuko Ojiri has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for selling artworks to a suspected Hezbollah financier without declaring the transactions. Ojiri, 53, admitted to eight...
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