Visual arts
Christie’s to auction art of Islamic, Indian works
Christie's has announced the Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Oriental Rugs and Carpets, a live auction at Christie's on April 27. The sale features striking examples of manuscripts, paintings, ceramics, metalwork, and carpets.
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Italy planning 5-figure fines for monument and art vandalism
Italy will push for a law imposing stiff, five-figure fines on vandals who damage monuments or other cultural sites, to help pay for the repairs and clean-up.
At a Cabinet meeting on April 11, the government approved proposed legislation championed by the culture minister that would impose fines starting at 10,000 euros (nearly $11,000) and as high as 60,000 euros (about $65,000).
Yannis Gaitis | Athens | To May 14
Marking 100 years since the birth of the great Greek modernist Yannis Gaitis (1923-1984), the B&M Theocharakis Foundation (thf.gr) presents the retrospective show "The Essence of Anonymity." The career-spanning exhibition starts with his 1944 self-portrait and stretches to the end of his creative journey, with pieces on loan from galleries, foundations and private collections, including sev
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Ai Weiwei launches new London show
China feels it has the "right to redefine the global world order," Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei told AFP on April 5ahead of the opening in London of his first design-focused exhibition.
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Is it possible to have too much Picasso?
Why can't the world get enough of Pablo Picasso? On the 50th anniversary of his death, it seems the appetite for the Spanish master is inexhaustible.
Picasso's ceramics, Picasso's sculptures, Picasso and feminism, Picasso's use of white, celebrity photographs of Picasso... the list of exhibitions marking the half-century since his death on April 8, 1973 runs on and on.
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Basquiat-Warhol: A rare artistic duo reunited in Paris
There are vanishingly few great collaborations in the annals of fine art. For a brief moment in the 1980s, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat showed the world how it was done.
It started with a bang. Warhol, 54, met Basquiat, 22, for lunch in October 1982 and took a polaroid of them together.
China's 'art factory' painters turn from fakes to originals
Painters in a Chinese village once known for churning out replicas of Western masterpieces are now making original art worth thousands of dollars, selling their own works in a booming domestic art market.
Home to more than 8,000 artists, southern China's Dafen has been producing near-perfect copies of timeless masterpieces for years.
Elusive ‘einstein’ solves a long-standing math problem
Last November, after a decade of failed attempts, David Smith, a self-described shape hobbyist of Bridlington in East Yorkshire, England, suspected that he might have finally solved an open problem in the mathematics of tiling: That is, he thought he might have discovered an "einstein."
Artists fight AI programs that copy their styles
Artists outraged by artificial intelligence that copies in seconds the styles they have sacrificed years to develop are waging battle online and in court.
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Photos of Jackson Pollock's Painting that was Found in Bulgaria
The Bulgarian National Radio provided exclusive photos of the painting of Jackson Pollock discovered by the Main Directorate "Fighting Organized Crime".
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