A 17th-century painting stolen from an art gallery at the University of Oxford more than four years ago was recently recovered in Romania. Salvator Rosa‘s Baroque landscape work A Rocky Coast, with Soldiers Studying a Plan was stolen from the Christ Church Picture Gallery on March 14, 2020. The two […]
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0 Organised by the Hong Kong Palace Museum and the National Gallery in London, “Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London” is the first presentation of the National Gallery’s renowned painting collection in Hong Kong. The exhibition features 52 masterpieces created by 50 influential artists spanning more than […]
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0 A 500-year-old Raphael painting is partially the work of another artist, according to a new study. A team led by scientists from England’s University of Bradford used artificial intelligence to determine that the face of Joseph in the “Madonna della Rosa” (“Madonna of the Rose”) was painted by someone other […]
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0 Tom Hume, who has died of a cardiac arrest at age 81, was an inspirational head of art at Middlesbrough High School from 1971 until 1990, the happiest years of his teaching career. Past pupils, of whom I was one, talk of the unconventional atmosphere he created in the art […]
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0 Advances in laser scanning have transformed how museums research and conserve paintings by mapping the textures, colours and dimensions of their surfaces in minute detail. Now, an innovative Austrian printmaking company is using the technology — and the rich data it produces — to offer art enthusiasts the chance to […]
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0 Artist Simon Beck is known for his incredible snow drawings that span between 100 and 150 metres in diameter. He creates them armed only with a magnetic compass and his snowshoes. Taking a ski lift to a remote mountain, walking for up to 10 hours in thick snow to draw […]
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0 When an antiques enthusiast purchased a painting that appeared to bear the signature of N.C. Wyeth at a thrift store in 2017, she joked that the $4 item might actually be a real work by the prolific Maine artist and patriarch of the Wyeth family of painters. Her joke was […]
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0 An article in The Global Times criticizes the UK’s colonial history and calls for the British Museum to return all Chinese cultural relics acquired through questionable means to China without charge, amidst ongoing controversies surrounding thefts at the London-based institution. Published on August 28 in an op-ed piece, The Global […]
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0 When I see the car number plate ending in “GAY,” I know I’m in the right place. Pulling up to a pretty cottage in rural Suffolk, the statement two-tone Chrysler on the gravel driveway is a tell-tale sign that the owner is artist Maggi Hambling. She duly emerges from her […]
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0 The South African artist turning plastic into portraits. While other artists might use watercolours or oil paints, Mbongeni Buthelezi uses waste plastics to create highly textured portraits at his studio in Booysens, Johannesburg. His medium is the plastic litter he collects from local rubbish dumps and city streets. “Animals are […]
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