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Woman in Gold is a new film starring Helen Mirren based on the restitution of a masterpiece by Gustav Klimt. The American-British drama is directed...

Following on from the trial of German art dealer Helge Achenbach that began the week before last - after the 62-year-old was accused of defrauding...

Dario Franceschini, the Italian minister of culture, has announced that the state will invest €200,000 (£156,000) on an “anti-seismic plinth" for...

Online project Postcardwall is making 2015 the ‘year of the postcard’. For nearly five years, Sophie Hill has written about art using her postcard...

The American artist James Turrell is to create a site-specific light work which will illuminate the entire west façade of Houghton Hall in Norfolk...

Just over 60 miles north of Tokyo, in the sky over Utsunomiya, there floats a giant head. Yes, a giant head, which appears to be of a gigantic...

Thieves have breached stringent security at Christie's London flagship headquarters to pull off a heist valued at up to a million pounds. The stolen...

The British portrait photographer Jane Bown, known for her images of famous people including the Beatles and Francis Bacon and Samuel Beckett, has...

The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Detroit sold a Paul Cézanne oil painting in 2013, keeping the sale of the work a secret; selling the piece by...

Regen Projects has unveiled 'Everyone', an exhibition of multimedia work by British artist Gillian Wearing. The exhibition debuts two new videos –...

The Art Institute of Chicago has mounted the first American museum show of the British artist Bridget Riley in nearly 15 years. This solo exhibition...

Sculptors’ Jewellery is an exhibition that celebrates works of art on a miniature scale created by those that are more used to working in the...