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Getty Museum acquires painting by Spanish Renaissance master Luis de Morales following extensive conservation
The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s ...
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How the Imperial War Museum became the reluctant owner of an official Nazi portrait of Adolf Hitler
The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937 ...
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Prestigious prize for women artists celebrates 20 years with Florence show
Two decades of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women—whose previous awardees include the Turner-Prize winner Helen Cammock—are ...
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Palestinian photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf wins World Press Photo with image of young Gazan amputee
The subject of the photograph taken for “The New York Times” is nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both his arms in an ...
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Qatari sheikh wins case against Phoenix Ancient Art over allegedly forged antiquity
The New York- and Geneva-based gallery says it will appeal the case, brought by Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah al-Thani ...
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Comment | A buoyant art scene—and an exciting new generation of artists—mean this could be ‘the African century’
Long overlooked or stereotyped, African contemporary art is finally receiving global attention, writes Wim Pijbes, former ...
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SXSW London's exhibitions line-up puts emphasis on art and technology and artists from London’s Caribbean diaspora
Andy Warhol, Alvaro Barrington, Tavares Strachan, Beeple, Alberta Whittle, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst among featured visual artists in June shows in Shoreditch, east London ...