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America’s Only Art Cop Gets Conviction – Chagall Thief Gets Four Years
An art thief that tried to sell a number of stolen expressionist masterpieces that including paintings by Marc Chagall and Arshile Gorky at well...
Brian Clarke Presents Site-Specific Works At Pace Gallery London
Pace London presents an exhibition of new work by the leading British artist Brian Clarke. Showing the artist’s stained-glass pieces and paintings,...
Urs Fischer To Present Next Event Sculpture At Henry Moore Institute
The Henry Moore Institute turns inside out as the outside of the building becomes a site for sculpture. The next Event Sculpture presents Urs...
Ai Weiwei Zodiac Heads Sculptures Set New Auction Record For The Artist
The newly relaunched Phillips Auctioneers have sold Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, 2010 for £2.8m ($4.3m) at the Contemporary Art...
Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Has Restituted Eight Works To Heirs
Eight artworks have been restituted to the heirs of the Jewish publisher Rudolf Mosse by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, after a an...
Prophet Muhammad Cartoonist Lars Vilks Targeted In Deadly Copenhagen Shooting
Denmark is recovering from a terrorist attack that left one person dead and three injured after a free speech debate attended by the controversial ...
Christie’s Post-War And Contemporary Art Evening Auction Realises £117,142,500
The Post-War & Contemporary Art evening sale at Christie’s London realised a total of £117,142,500 / $178,408,028 / €157,556,663 selling 95% by...
Aowen Jin Presents Ink Paintings Only Visible Under UV Light
Celebrate the Year of the Sheep with a contemporary twist and discover how Chinese culture has inspired artists around the world. The Horniman...
Goldsmiths Auction For New Gallery Raises Nearly £1.5 Million
Christie’s hosted a special auction today in support of the £2.8 million needed to create the Gallery at Goldsmiths, as part of the Day Sale. ...
HSBC Leak Reveals Key Art World Tax Avoidance Connections
Leaked documents from HSBC’s secretive Swiss banking arm have this week reveal snippets of private information about some of the bank’s art world...
Russian Avant-Garde Art Forgery Ring Trial Postponed
After detectives from the German Federal Criminal Police seized a trove of forged paintings; The trial of three men charged with running the art...
Tania Bruguera Cuban Performance Re-enacted At Neuberger Museum New York
After a total of 14 artists wrote an open letter to the Guardian, in which they condemned Cuban artist Tania Bruguera's continued detention in her...