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Parliament Considers Action Over Islamic State Funding Terror Through Trafficking Art And Antiquities
A parliamentary debate on the issue of antiquities trafficking in Syria and Iraq is due to take place soon in the House of Commons. British...
Picasso Hoard Couple In Court Over £50m In Undocumented Artworks
The trial opened yesterday of the former handyman of the artist Pablo Picasso and his wife in Paris. They are accused of stealing 271 artworks by...
Jeremy Deller, Simon Starling, Anish Kapoor And Other Artists Condemn Tania Bruguera’s Detention
A total of 14 artists has written an open letter to the Guardian, in which they condemn Cuban artist Tania Bruguera's continued detention in her...
Tsibi Geva Chosen To Represent Israel At The 56th Venice Biennale
Tsibi Geva has been selected for this year's Israeli Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. The artist will present a site-specific art installation,...
Hayward Gallery’s exhibition History Is Now: Offers Provocative Take On Recent British History
Seven UK based artists of different generations and backgrounds—John Akomfrah, Simon Fujiwara, Roger Hiorns, Hannah Starkey, Richard Wentworth, and...
Alfred Morris Momaday Artwork Worth $33,000 Discovered In US Police Sweep
A police officer searching a former meth lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico has discovered an illicit trove of artwork by the late Native American...
Yayoi Kusama Retrospective Opens At Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Museum Of Fine Arts
The Japanese art star Yayoi Kusama, is probably the ultimate outsider artist - now her highly popular retrospective “A Dream I Dreamed" has opened...
Ai Weiwei Set To Direct Short Film In Berlin Remotely Via Skype
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei is planning to remotely direct a short film via Skype, although still living without a passport in China, following years...
Andy Warhol Owned George Bellows Painting Bought By The Barber Institute
A work of art formerly in the collection of the late great master of Pop Art, Andy Warhol has been bought by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in...
Anselm Kiefer Artist’s Rooms Exhibition Moves North To Cumbria
Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important post-war European artists. Born in Germany in 1945, he now lives and works in France, His work...
Wolsey Angels Saved for the Nation By Heritage Memorial Fund
The recovery of Wolsey’s angels is one of those miracles that historians pray for; something that seems irrevocably lost has been there all the...
Etchings Created By Queen Victoria And Prince Albert For London Original Print Fair
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were passionate patrons of the arts. But what might surprise a number of people is the revelation that they were...