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Sydney -
An artist has emerged from three days entombed in a steel box under a busy Australian road in a performance billed as a tribute to victims of totalitarian violence.Mike Parr, 73, fasted during his time underground, with oxygen pumped into the 1.
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Glasgow -
Fire devastated one of the world's top art schools once again on Saturday, destroying four years of restoration work after a previous blaze ripped through the historic Glasgow School of Art.
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London -
Fire ripped through one of the world's top art schools early on Saturday as the historic building in the Scottish city of Glasgow was undergoing major restoration work following another blaze four years ago.
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Washington -
Between a parkway and a busy freeway, Washington's Kennedy Center will open a massive campus next year where the public can view up close how art is made.
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Washington -
For the first time since they were painted more than a century ago, two oil paintings of Claude Monet's garden in Vetheuil have been reunited, in Washington.
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New York -
A stunning nude that is the largest painting produced by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani sold for $157.2 million in New York on Monday, becoming the fourth most expensive work of art sold at auction.
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New York -
Six months after selling a Leonardo da Vinci for half a billion dollars, New York art auction season is back, gearing up to break new records with a magnificent Rockefeller collection and a Modigliani.
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Washington -
Elegantly matched in white outfits, Melania Trump and Brigitte Macron split off from their husbands on Tuesday to visit a Paul Cezanne exhibit at Washington's National Gallery of Art.
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Fpo -
A painting of a nude by Amedeo Modigliani is expected to fetch $150 million, the highest ever pre-sale estimate for an artwork at auction, Sotheby's said Tuesday as the work was unveiled in Hong Kong.
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Mexico -
A Mexican court has barred sales of a controversial Frida Kahlo Barbie doll in the painter's home country, ruling her family owned the sole rights to her image, lawyers said Thursday.
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London -
British artist Tracey Emin has unveiled her latest artwork: a bright pink homage to Europe at St Pancras station in London -- Britain's rail gateway to the continent.
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Paris -
French President Emmanuel Macron likes to pepper his diplomacy with symbolism and gestures. By taking Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a tour of the Louvre, was he making a point about political freedom?
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Istanbul -
It's a busy afternoon at Istanbul Modern, Turkey's premier modern art museum, and the gallery is packed with visitors taking selfies or discussing the artworks in hushed tones.
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Paris -
Four works of art have vanished from the walls of France's national assembly, parliamentary officials said Wednesday, prompting a police investigation to track them down.
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Paris -
An internal French government report has criticised the "inefficiency and lack of ambition" of official efforts to return art looted from Jews during World War II.
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Fpo -
A rare Picasso believed to be a self-portrait created when he was under threat of deportation to a Nazi concentration camp is expected to fetch US$70 million at auction, Christie's said Friday as the work went on view in Hong Kong.
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Paris -
One of Picasso's most unsettling paintings returns to Paris on Friday more than a century after he painted it here, as a taster for what is being billed the art "sale of the century".
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Paris -
The Louvre briefly evacuated one its busiest rooms on Monday after black-clad environmental activists staged a protest against oil giant Total's patronage of the Paris museum.
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Mexico -
The new Frida Kahlo Barbie raised eyebrows, and indeed unibrows, from the moment it was announced.
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Paris -
The Franco-American patriarch of the mighty Wildenstein art-dealing dynasty goes back on trial in Paris Friday, just over a year after his surprise acquittal in a long-running inquiry over suspected large-scale tax fraud.
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Paris -
France's highest appeal court has overturned the conviction of Pablo Picasso's former electrician and his wife, who were given suspended sentences for keeping 271 of his works in their garage for four decades.
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Gdansk -
Vying for an Oscar, "Loving Vincent" is the world's first animated feature film painted by hand -- all 65,000 frames -- in the distinct style of Vincent van Gogh.
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London -
A long-lost portrait of a Nigerian princess dubbed the "African Mona Lisa" sold at auction in London on Wednesday for £1.2 million (1.4 million euros, $1.7 million), exceeding estimates and setting a record for the artist.
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Berlin -
A German artist complained Friday after his gallery took down a painting that depicts Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a banana in his buttocks.
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Paris -
A Degas painting stolen from a museum in Marseille nine years ago has been found on a bus near Paris, the French culture minister said Friday.
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Amsterdam -
Dutch and French art historians on Monday unveiled the surprising results of 18 months of painstaking restoration work on a pair of 17th century portraits by Dutch master Rembrandt.
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London -
A myriad of intriguing patterns exist throughout the natural world, and many of these are on display at the Francis Crick Institute in London in a new exhibition. The exhibition aims to provide a glimpse into three intricate developmental patterns.
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Paris -
It was when Kubra Khademi stopped the traffic in Kabul, and men began to throw stones at her and bay for her blood, that she knew she was going to have to leave the country.
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New York -
They shot to fame in 2015 with a portrait of Vladimir Putin made of bullet shells from the killing fields of eastern Ukraine. Now, the two Ukrainian artists are back with a portrait of Donald Trump made from coins and poker chips.
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London -
Spray can in hand perched halfway up a ladder, Neequaye Dreph Dsane applied the final touches of colour to his latest mural enlivening an otherwise drab side street in east London.
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An exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario showcases the art of Chinese star Ai Weiwei
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ART: Attendees cruise around near the statue to be set afire at the 2013 Burning Man counterculture festival in the Nevada desert. Jennifer Morrow/Wikimedia Commons
Untitled works by Alex Amini. Art Seen 107 gallery. Bentonville, Ark. 10-21-11
Artist Kanene Weston and her work, "Blue Mountains 2", at The Many Faces art opening, Gallery Sensei NYC, December 12, 2014
Depictions of what appear to be flying insects are crafted from dollar bills
Images from The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton.
A visitor to the show admires the hand-dyed patterned silk.
A sculpture of horses by Sayaka Ganz, using found objects With permission by Sayaka Ganz
File photo: Skating in Holland, Unknown author, Oil on canvas 31.8 x 46.4 cm. Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917; on loan to the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, since 1979. Signed: Jongkind, but likely to be a forgery. National Gallery, London
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Ukrainian Art Spring Exhibit featuring the work and memorabilia of Taras Shevchenko.
Entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL
Acadia Gallery in Toronto is taking part in Nuit Blanche for the first time with 13 artists.
An artistic hand painting by Guido Daniele, depicting an elephant From Guido Daniele
The front entrance of the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario. McMichael Gallery
"A Portrait of America" curated by Ramses Granados continues its run at the Joy Wai Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. Joy Wai Gallery
German rock band Rammstein in concert in Milan on February 24, 2005 Wikimedia
Cro-Magnon artists painting mammoths in Font-de-Gaume, by Charles R. Knight "Font-de-Gaume" by Charles R. Knight - http://birdbookerreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-title_30.htm
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