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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 - Artists

Violaine Lochu, Meat me

Barbara Polla 18 October 2019

Must see - Exhibitions

December exhibition to feature works by Congo, the artist chimpanzee

Katherine Keener 18 October 2019

Leading lights - Experts

Museums present visual art as beautiful things you can touch

Art Critique 16 October 2019

Leading lights - Artists

Towards postmodernism: the emergence of artists from Coenties Slip

Orianne Castel 16 October 2019

Must see!

December exhibition to feature works by Congo, the artist chimpanzee

This winter, a rather unorthodox artist will have an exhibition at one of London’s highly regarded galleries. Having passed away nearly 50 years ago, the artist puts an interesting spin on the phrase ‘a five-year-old could do that.’ The works that will hit the floor at Mayor Galleries in December aren’t by a child, though, […]

Urs Fischer makes candle portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio for Gagosian show

For a few years now, Leonardo DiCaprio has been a vocal environmental activist, working to raise awareness about the catastrophic effects of global warming. More specifically, and as seen in his 2016 documentary Before the Flood, DiCaprio focused on showing the dramatic speed at which polar glaciers are melting. DiCaprio now finds himself melting, or […]

Paris exhibition casts El Greco under new light

The first major exhibition in France for the renowned Greek artist, Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541-1614), better known as El Greco, opened yesterday at the Grand Palais. A total of seventy-six works are on display, ranging from his early Greek iconography to his late career portraits made when he was Toledo, Spain. El Greco, while mostly known […]

Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives

When one thinks about historical Egyptian culture, it is hard not to think beyond the scope of what popular media and our education have focussed on: the great pyramids, the curious pantheon, the rules of pharaohs, the traditions with death, and, of course, mummies. And while “Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives” at the Montreal Museum […]