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In what’s being called “the biggest art scandal in a century,” French police are investigating about $255 million worth of paintings attributed to Old Masters that they suspect are forgeries.
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If a dog is a man's best friend, and Snoop Dogg is Martha Stewart's best friend, then Snoop giving Stewart a painting of a dog means the circle is complete.
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Over the past few weeks, highly NSFW street art has popped up across Brussels, courtesy of an anonymous street artist or graffiti collective.
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After disappearing for 14 years, two paintings by Vincent van Gogh that were stolen one morning from his namesake museum in Amsterdam have finally re-surfaced in a small Italian town.
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A private museum in Moscow has shut down its retrospective of the work of US photographer Jock Sturges after state officials called his images of nude girls “propaganda of pedophilia," a protester threw urine at his pictures, and officers in camouflage stormed the space, RT reported.
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In a historic decision today, the International Criminal Court convicted an individual who destroyed cultural heritage of committing a war crime.
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How do you repair crumbling, centuries-old sections of the Great Wall of China?
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After almost a year of legal negotiations with Marina Abramović, Ulay will now receive payment and full accreditation for works he created with his former partner.
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When a rare portrait by one of Britain's first professional female artists went up for sale two years ago, auctioneers assumed it was the work of a man.
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Influenced by the M.C. Escher-esque designs of Indian stepwells, British starchitect Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled plans for a giant stairway to nowhere in New York City's Hudson Yards.
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Did you happen to miss last year's blockbuster Picasso show at the Museum of Modern Art? Or perhaps you couldn't attend another momentous exhibition, the museum's 1938 presentation of the Bauhaus, because you didn't even exist yet.
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As part of a continuing effort to paint over his legacy as a war criminal and the worst US president ever, George W. Bush will soon publish an art book.