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Rembrandt Original Or Workshop Copy? Art Institute of Chicago Investigates
In a dark corner of the Art Institute of Chicago, two paintings hang side by side. Both are titled Old Man with a Gold Chain. Both depict the same...
Glen Baxter Artist Of The Absurd Has Died Aged 82
Glen Baxter, the Leeds-born artist whose deadpan ink drawings made absurdism look easy and pretension look ridiculous, has died. He...
Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse Stolen In Audacious Raid On Italian Museum
Three paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, with an estimated combined value of €9 million, were stolen near Parma on...
Pat Steir Abstract Painter Of Waterfalls Dies at 87
The Abstract painter Pat Steir has died in Manhattan. She was 87 and was making new paintings until the end. Her death was confirmed by her husband,...
Public Backs London Tourist Levy To Keep Museums Free
Free museum entry is one of those policies that, once you have it, becomes almost impossible to imagine giving up. Twenty-five years ago this...
Natural History Museum Breaks UK Records With 7.1 Million Visitors
The Natural History Museum has topped the UK’s visitor attractions chart for the first time, drawing more than 7.1 million people through its...
Banksy Identified By Reuters News Agency – Who Cares Wins
Last week, the spoiler-prone Reuters news agency claimed to have identified Banksy — But Does It Matter? One of the art world’s most enduring...
$69 Million Beeple NFT Finds It Was Sundaresan All Along
When Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold at Christie’s in March 2021 for $69.3 million, the art world’s first and most...
Poet William Wordsworth’s Grasmere Home Secured For The Nation
William Wordsworth’s final home, where he lived for the last thirty-seven years of his life until 1850, has been secured for the nation. The...
Victor Vasarely Foundation: Rundown Aix Museum to be restored
The Victor Vasarely Foundation in Aix-en-Provence has struggled for years to maintain the Op Art landmark. This year, the building turns fifty, and...
Eduardo Paolozzi: Mosaic Murals In Redditch Shopping Centre Grade II Listed
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has given a series of mosaic murals by the Scottish Artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Grade II listed...
Howard Hodgkin: Mrs Acton In Delhi Garners Export Bar From DCMS
A painting by the British abstractionist Howard Hodgkin has been slapped with an export bar by the DCMS. Ministers have placed the ban on Mrs Acton...