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This undated handout photo published by the Gouda Museum on June 12, 2024, and obtained on March 2, 2025, shows the painting entitled "Woman Carrying Embers", also known as "Woman Moving A Bonfire", by Flemish-Dutch master Pieter Brueghel the Younger circa 1626, shown at an exhibition at the Museum Gouda, in Gouda

World

Police, art sleuth crack case of Brueghel stolen in Poland in 1974

With the help of a well-known art detective and arts magazine journalists, Dutch police say they have cracked the case of the mysterious disappearance...

AFPMarch 3, 2025

Adel Yazdi has over the years turned the walls of his old neighbourhood into a vivid visual tapestry 'telling the stories of the people living there'

World

Iran artist’s vision for culture hub enlivens rustic district

In the winding alleys of southern Iran, artist Adel Yazdi has taken it upon himself to turn his rustic old neighbourhood into a cultural...

AFPJanuary 2, 2025

Ultra-realistic AI robot Ai-Da is designed to resemble a human woman with a face, large eyes and a brown wig

Tech & Science

First artwork by humanoid robot sells for $1.3m

A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing became the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction.

AFPNovember 8, 2024

The gallery said protesters caused 'minor damage to the frame' but the painting was unharmed

World

Climate activists jailed for throwing soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’

A UK judge on Friday jailed two climate activists who threw soup at Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at London’s National Gallery in 2022 for...

AFPSeptember 27, 2024

Actress and singer Lady Gaga at the premiere of her new movie 'Joker: Folie a Deux' in Venice

Entertainment

Lady Gaga plants lipstick smile on ‘Mona Lisa’ in Louvre clip

Lady Gaga comes face to face with the "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre and plants a lipstick smile on her face in a new...

AFPSeptember 25, 2024

Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of Miss Lieser' commissioned by a wealthy Jewish industrialist's family has re-emerged

Life

Top price predicted for long-lost Klimt portrait at Vienna auction

A painting by symbolist icon Gustav Klimt that reappeared after nearly a century will be sold at auction in Vienna on Wednesday despite questions...

AFPApril 24, 2024

Around 50 visitors queued in southern France to admire a forgotten painting by Raphael

World

French basilica displays rediscovered Raphael painting

Visitors queued up at a southern French basilica Sunday to see a rediscovered painting by Italian renaissance painter Raphael. The small portrait of Mary...

AFPApril 21, 2024