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California law could help reunite family with painting stolen during World War II
A painting worth tens of millions of dollars was stolen by the Nazis during World War II and the fight to get it back ...
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The Fantasy of the Lost Masterpiece and the Hard Realities of Art Authentication
The allure of finding lost art treasures is real, but proving authorship—and determining an artwork’s commercial value—can be ...
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Rare Wall Paintings Revealed at Tudor Hunting Lodge
Grotesque-style paintings featuring fantastical beasts and foliage, The Ashes, Cumbria, England. INGLEWOOD FOREST, ...
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Rare Rembrandt Lion Drawing Auctioned To Fund Big Cat Conservation Efforts
Thomas Kaplan has announced plans to sell Young Lion Resting, a rare Rembrandt drawing, to support wildlife conservation ...
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Edvard Munch Is Known as the Painter of ‘The Scream.’ His Many Haunting Portraits Show That He Was Much More Than His Masterpiece
Through 45 artworks made between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new exhibition spotlights the Norwegian artist's sometimes ...
Otobong Nkanga’s art, at once earthy and humane, now on view at the Nasher
In a time of heightened hostility toward “the other” — countries, immigrants, scientists and academics — Otobong Nkanga is ...
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This 44,000-Year-Old Animal Painting Found In A Cave In Indonesia Could Be The “World’s Oldest Story”
Ratno SardiScientists have determined a cave painting depicting what looks to be a hunting scene is more than 44,000 years ...
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Digital To Canvas: 20 Oil Paintings Of Viral Memes By Daniel Arthur
Contemporary artist uses oil paints to illustrate viral memes found online on traditional canvas. The post Digital To Canvas: ...
Marcia Marcus, Painter Rediscovered in Her Last Decade, Dies at 97
A popular downtown artist in the 1960s, she worked in obscurity after art world trends left her behind. Now her startlingly ...
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Jeffrey Dahmer Killed 17 Young Men And Boys — Then Defiled Their Corpses In Unspeakable Ways
On the morning of May 27, 1991, Milwaukee police responded to an alarming call. Two women had encountered a naked boy on the street who was disoriented and bleeding. But as the police arrived at the ...
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A long-lost Klimt painting of an African prince goes on show
at the art fair TEFAF Maastricht in the Netherlands, with a price tag of €15 million (about $16.3 million). The framed painting was “heavily soiled” with a “barely visible” estate stamp ...