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The four-part docuseries This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist (available on Netflix!) tells the story of the notorious event that took place over 30 years ago in the middle of the night on ...
The four-part docuseries This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist (available on Netflix!) tells the story of the notorious event that took place over 30 years ago in the middle of the night on ...
State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia Russia may be isolated from the artistic centers of Paris, Rome, and London, but the Hermitage has managed to acquire a spectacular collection of world art ...
And here we mention 5 artists and their art that portray Mary Magdalene. One of the most famous and iconic paintings of Jesus and Mary Magdalene is this one. It shows the moment when Mary ...
In 2018, Christie’s held its first auction for a work of art produced by artificial intelligence (AI), which sold for $432,500. But Hong Kong-based cross-media artist Victor Wong didn’t think ...
This may be why many of her most famous paintings—including Judith Slaying Holofernes and Jael and Sisera—are those in which women overpower and kill men. Her particularly gruesome ...
For the artist Christina Ramberg, watching her mother getting dressed for parties—in particular, putting on a corset called a merry widow, which gave her an hourglass figure—revealed the ...
WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in ...
While in judicial custody at a hospital, Dheeraj Wadhawan, ex-DHFL promoter, allegedly conspired to sell two high-end paintings worth Rs 31 crore, acquired using funds diverted from DHFL.
A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for R245 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. Marlene Dumas’ 1997 painting “Miss January” recently ...
Scholars, curators and collectors of historical paintings are breathing a little easier today. A looming crisis in the conservation field caused by the discontinuation of two key ingredients ...