Artists

Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa left a video debate on media freedom in his country organised by the European Parliament's monitoring group on Friday, cutting off the opportunity for European lawmakers to ask him questions, but also to defend his views.

An artwork created from the world's largest canvas painting has sold for $62 million in Dubai, the second most expensive painting sold at auction by a living artist.

The original painting, "The Journey of Humanity" by British artist Sacha Jafri, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest art canvas.

A plan to organize a fashion show in Lake Salda, dubbed "Turkey's Maldives" due to its bright azure waters and white sands, has stirred controversy, daily Hürriyet reported on March 23.

A painting by UK street artist Banksy is expected to raise millions of pounds for the staff of Britain's state-run National Health Service (NHS) at auction on Tuesday.

The painting by the elusive artist, titled "Game Changer", first appeared at Southampton General Hospital on England's south coast, during the first wave of the global health crisis last May.

A rare drawing by the Italian 17th-century sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini sold for 1.9 million euros ($2.3 million) in France on March 20, the highest price ever paid for a drawing by the artist, the auction house said.

The French government has announced that it will return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80 years after it was stolen from a Jewish family in Austria in 1938.

The colorful 1905 oil work by the Austrian symbolist painter titled "Rosebushes under the Trees" has been hanging in Paris' Musee d'Orsay museum for decades.

A digital collage by American artist Beeple sold March 11 for a record $69.3 million at Christie's auctioneers, as virtual art rapidly establishes itself as a new - and highly profitable - creative genre.

The Women's Plays Festival, led by the Ankara Art Theater (AST), met with theater lovers at the capital city's Bilkent AST Stage amid the COVID-19 normalization phase.

Organized by Atölye Kültür Sanat under the artistic direction of AST, one of the most established private theaters in Turkey, the festival will continue until March 11.

Street artist Banksy on March 4 claimed responsibility for a painting on the wall of a former British prison that once held playwright Oscar Wilde.

The artwork shows a prisoner escaping on a rope made of bedsheets tied to a typewriter.

The elusive artist confirmed he was responsible in a video posted on his Instagram account.

In an exceptional string of Romanian artists who have marked the European cultural environment, Constantin Brancusi has a special place, says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) in a message posted on its Facebook page.