A lost Fernand Léger painting has reappeared after more than a century of being hidden behind another canvas. The work, an unnamed piece from the “Smoke over the Rooftops” series (1911–12), was discovered on the flip side of Léger’s Bastille Day, painted later that year, per the Agence France-Presse. The […]
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0 Anyone who thinks works of art declared to be fake simply disappear in disgrace or are destroyed should talk to Jane Kallir, the author of the catalog raisonné for Egon Schiele, the Austrian painter. She was offered the same fake Schiele watercolor for authentication, she said, 10 times by 10 […]
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0 The world’s largest painting, which was created by British artist Sacha Jafri, has been sold for £45m to raise funds for children’s charities. Jafri spent eight months painting the 1,600 sq m (17,000 sq ft) artwork in a deserted hotel’s ballroom in Dubai. He planned to sell it in 70 […]
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0 A painting that hung for some 60 years in a Brussels town hall has been authenticated as the oldest known version of one of Flemish master Jacques Jordaens’ most famous works. The discovery of the Holy Family painting was made during a 2019 inventory of cultural works in Saint-Gilles town […]
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0 Frank Dunphy, the Bullish Business Manager who helped Damien Hirst amass Millions, has died. Dunphy negotiated high percentages of gallery sales for Hirst and encouraged him to sell work through auction houses. Frank Dunphy, the business brain behind Damien Hirst and several other successful YBAs, died on Sunday. He was […]
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0 The German government has beefed up this year’s budget for art acquisitions for the federal collection, pledging to buy around 150 works worth €3m in total in a bid to help artists and galleries overcome the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. An independent commission will purchase art directly from […]
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0 Some of the iconic scenes of Hong Kong democracy protests will be preserved permanently through a monumental sculpture by the California-based Chinese artist Chen Weiming, who wants to pay tribute to the protesters and the city that has been supporting the democracy movement in mainland China for the past three […]
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0 A massive explosion in a warehouse at the port of Beirut on Tuesday evening, thought to be caused by some 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored at the site for six years, has killed at time of writing at least 145 people and injured more than 5,000. The devastating blast has […]
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0 Last month, Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Bristol, UK, made headlines around the world when they toppled a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston and dumped it into the River Avon. Now, the city has an entirely new figure being celebrated on the once-empty plinth: a protester. British artist Marc […]
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0 There are now nearly 4.5 million objects in its digital archive, and 1.9 million photographs. With much of world on lockdown, now’s a good time to get around to tasks you’ve long putting off. For London’s British Museum, that includes adding objects and images to its online collections database. To […]
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