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Giacometti sculpture damaged by cat, deemed ‘Worthless’ by experts, sells for £500,000

Leonidas Kalai 28 August 2019

Long-lost Caravaggio saga ends with a mysterious and sudden sale and not a $171m auction

Leonidas Kalai 25 June 2019

Louvre ditches Salvator Mundi over authenticity doubts

Leonidas Kalai 7 June 2019

Leading lights

LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art to recognize union

Katherine Keener 10 December 2019

A Lesson in Street Art: how a movement morphed out of graffiti and into the art world (Part I)

Katherine Keener 9 December 2019

Leading lights - Artists

X-Mas With the Surrealist Sculptor Daniel Giordano: The Immersive Trend Challenges Emerging Artists

Samuel Abelow 9 December 2019

Leading lights - Artists

Siminovitch Prize in Theatre winners for 2019- Maiko Yamamoto and James Long

Brandon Lorimer 8 December 2019

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An artist walks into Art Basel Miami Beach and eats a banana…

In 1982, Andy Warhol ate a Whopper as part of Jørgen Leth’s ’66 Scenes from America.’ In the 16th century, Giuseppe Arcimboldo was painting food, ranging from vegetables to fish, to create portraits. And, now, at Art Basel Miami Beach, contemporary artists have made headlines, thanks to food once more, by making it into art […]

‘Rumors of War’, by Kehinde Wiley, inspired by US Civil War monuments

Amidst the tourists snapping selfies, dozens of large screens boasting advertisements of every type, and the people dressed up as various superheroes around Times Square, you’ll find a large-scale sculpture. Upon first glance, it looks like a traditional war monument: a man commands a rearing stallion, cast in bronze, atop a stone plinth. However, take […]

A new exhibition explores the complexities of the hoodie

There are few items of clothing as socially, politically and racially charged as the hoodie. It has come to represent a modern day parable of social inequality, youth culture, racism, fear and style all at once. It’s also the star of a new exhibition curated by Lou Stoppard at the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, […]

Making the workplace an art place: London exhibition by Curaty enters its final weeks

In just a few weeks, a unique exhibition of works will wrap up at Trivandi, a company founded out of the organising committee for the 2012 London Olympics. Their office, near London Bridge, isn’t the first place you’d think of for an exhibition of up-and-coming artists, but thanks to Curaty, a London-based start-up, it is. […]