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Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies dies aged 88 The avant-garde Spanish painter,Antoni Tàpies has died in Barcelona aged 88. Tàpies was hailed as one of the biggest names in European contemporary art for… 07/02/2012
A double for one of art’s most famous faces The “Mona Lisa” is arguably the most famous face on canvas. Now Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting has a double, unveiled by Spain’s Prado Museum. The find was… 02/02/2012
Churchill’s Marrakech connection The Leighton House Museum in London has opened a new exhibition called “Meetings in Marrakesh” focussing on the paintings of Sir Winston Churchill and Hassan… 31/01/2012
Spot the artist at the Gagosian More than 300 spot paintings by British artist Damien Hirst from 1986 to the present day have gone on show simultaneously around the world. For the first… 16/01/2012
NY’s Met welcomes Renaissance portraiture Contributions made by Italian portraiture to the history of art is the subject of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. ‘The… 03/01/2012
Kim Jong-il’s death inspires cheeky satireA North Korean defector and artist paints next to another work of his entitled “Marilyn Monroe”, which satirizes North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, in Seoul… 23/12/2011
Rare showing of Leonardo self portrait One of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous yet fragile works of art, his red chalk self portrait, is on public display, for only the third time ever. 06/12/2011
In the footsteps of Fernando Botero A city best known as the home of one of the world’s most notorious drug cartels, Medellin in Colombia is also the birthplace of artist Fernando Botero. Born… 15/11/2011
Artist Graça Morais show: ‘The Walk of Fear’ Graça Morais’ latest exhibition was inspired by the news. One of the most renowned Portuguese painters, Morais’ new display has just opened in Oporto. 10/11/2011
Degas on display at London’s Royal Academy Obsessed by ballet, French artist Edgar Degas spent years drawing dancers; dancers warming up, rehearsing, backstage, in their dressing rooms and performing. 03/10/2011
A modern eye on Edvard Munch An exhibition of the works by Edvard Munch has opened in Paris before it moves to other cities in Germany and London. Edvard Munch, “The Modern Eye,” is… 29/09/2011
New Otto Dix works discovered Four previously unknown watercolours by Otto Dix have been discovered in Bavaria. They were painted using mixed techniques, watercolours worked over with ink… 01/09/2011
Artists show off body of work Crowds of some 30,000 turned up for this year’s World Body Painting Festival in Portschach in Austria. 04/07/2011
Art battle pitches France against US in Paris In this battle, the warriors’ weapons are palettes and paintbrushes: street artists from the US and France are fighting for the top prize in a so-called art… 03/05/2011
World’s richest man opens art museum in Mexico Some 16,000 silver hexagons cover the new Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, a museum which houses the art collection of the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim. The… 30/03/2011
Restoration row over da Vinci masterpieceTwo eminent French art experts have resigned over the way a Leonardo da Vinci painting has been restored. The pair claim the Louvre museum in Paris has… 30/12/2011
Back in the Day: van Gogh cuts off his earDecember 23, 1888 Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh cuts off his own left ear, or at least part of the earlobe, after a row with fellow artist and close friend… 22/12/2011
Spanish master’s ’300 euro’ painting uncoveredExperts from Dublin and Madrid have confirmed a painting thought to be worth around 300 euros is actually valued at closer to three million euros. The work… 29/10/2011
Artist Richard Hamilton diesThe artist many believed to be the father of Pop Art, Briton Richard Hamilton, has died aged 89. Admired by peers such as Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys, his… 13/09/2011
Recovered Rubens replica shown to publicA recovered replica of a Rubens masterpiece has been presented to the public in Greece, a decade after it was stolen in a robbery. Undercover police… 08/09/2011
Painter Lucian Freud dead at 88Artist Lucian Freud, hailed as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century, has died at his London home aged 88. Freud passed away after an illness… 22/07/2011
Tributes flow after death of artist Cy TwomblyThe art world is mourning the death of American painter Cy Twombly. The artist has died at the age of 83 in Rome. Twombly was renowned for his large… 06/07/2011
Marilyn Manson launches exhibition in ViennaUS shock-rocker Marilyn Manson has launched his first show as a painter in the Austrian capital Vienna. Entitled “Genealogies of Pain”, it is a… 25/01/2011
Jerusalem to Tehran, through Blum’s brushYou are not likely to see Jerusalem if you are a holder of an Iranian passport, as an order on its last page prohibits any travel to the “occupied Palestine.”… 20/01/2011
Gargantuan Gauguin is record-breaker at TateThe first major exhibition of Gauguin’s paintings for over 50 years has just opened at the Tate Modern in London. 06/10/2010
Vienna 1900 Under the SpotlightThe Foundation Beyeler has opened a new exhibition in Switzerland. The theme is contemporary art from Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. The show… 04/10/2010
Italian website allows a closer look at works of art0’00-0’15 Birth of Venus close-up Not many people ever get the chance to see a masterpiece like Boticelli’s Birth of Venus up close. Now an Italian company’s… 02/10/2010
World Bodypainting Festival makes a splashBilled as the most colourful event on the planet – nearly 30,000 people flocked to the 13th World Bodypainting Festival in Carinthia… South Austria. Over… 19/07/2010
Scientists unlock Mona Lisa secretIt’s baffled both experts and admirers for centuries, but now Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous masterpiece the Mona Lisa appears to have given up more of its… 17/07/2010
Dennis Hopper retrospective opens in LAPassionate about all aspects of art, Dennis Hopper, although best known as an actor and filmmaker, clocked up more than six decades of painting, drawing… 13/07/2010
Turner painting sells for record auction priceAn oil painting by Turner has gone under the hammer for just over 35 million euros, a new record at auction for the British master. The Getty Museum in Los… 08/07/2010
Russian art, Impressionist, and unseen Faberge works up for saleIn the art world, impression, cubism and the work of Fabergé are rarely found together. But international auction house Sotheby’s has challenged that view… 24/05/2010
East meets West in Huiqin Wang artAlmost 30 years of living in Slovenia has done little to break the links that painter Huiqin Wang has with the motifs and patterns of her native China. Her… 21/05/2010
Paris police probe multi-million euro art theftA daring art thief has snatched five masterpieces worth 500 million euros from a Paris museum in one of the biggest art robberies of all time. Police say… 20/05/2010
Painter Rocha in Picasso challengeBrazilian painter Fernando Rocha has set himself no small challenge – he wants to break Pablo Picasso’s record by completing more than 13,000 paintings in two… 09/04/2010
Art collection plundered by Nazis reunitedSome 1,400 masterpieces were taken from the Folkwang Museum in Essen by the Nazis in 1937. Paintings by artists such as Kandinsky, Chagall or Kirchner were… 24/03/2010
DNA tests in search of CaravaggioIt is one of the history of art’s coldest cases. Who killed the Italian Michelangelo Merisi or the painter more popularly known as Caravaggio – the town of… 11/03/2010
Kahlo collection on show in BrusselsThe world’s largest private collection of Frida Kahlo’s works is now on show in Brussels. Some 19 paintings, six drawings, an etching and various photos are… 08/03/2010
Pablo Picasso show in MoscowHundreds of paintings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso have gone on display at the Moscow State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. It is the biggest Picasso… 03/03/2010
Gittoes’s Taliwood doc chosen by MoMADescribed as a guerilla film maker, Australian artist George Gittoes has travelled to war zones around the world, filming, taking photographs and eventually… 10/02/2010
French impressionists go to MadridSome of the finest works by Monet, Degas, Renoir and other French impressionist artists have been brought together in Madrid for an exhibition organised by… 02/02/2010
Slovenia shows off foremost modernistPainter Emerik Bernard may not be especially well-known but the 1937-born artist is considered one of Slovenia’s leading Modernists. For a number of years he… 08/01/2010
Botticelli and Rubens on show in GermanyMore than 80 works by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli have gone on show in Frankfurt in Germany. Meanwhile, in Munich, the Alte Pinakothek… 17/11/2009
Picasso in HelsinkiThe Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki is exhibiting an extensive collection of Picasso’s work from all periods of his life. Says Kristina von Knorring, the… 23/09/2009
Akseli Gallen-Kallela/Korean Contemporary ArtAn major exhibition of works by Akseli Gallen-Kallela has opened in Stavanger in Norway. Gallen-Kallela is Finland’s national painter, best known for his… 09/09/2009
Fresh China frescoesConstruction workers digging a national water transport system to distribute water around China have stumbled upon an ancient royal tomb. The tomb, in… 08/07/2009
Michelangelo – did he or didn’t he?A small picture called “The Torment of St Anthony” is on display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and attracting much attention. It is a painted copy… 22/06/2009
Modigliani returns to Germany after 20 yearsMaybe one reason so many top models are skinny is that they are inspired by Amedeo Modigliani. Now the “Bundeskunsthalle” in Bonn presents the first… 21/04/2009
Kandinksy in ParisNearly one hundred paintings by abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky are on display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris until early August. 13/04/2009
Is mystery man in painting Leonardo da Vinci?A picture of a middle-aged man with piercing eyes and long hair may be a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, in fact some people claim it may even be a… 06/04/2009
Thousands queue for Picasso marathon showTens of thousands of people have queued overnight in Paris for the final chance to see an exhibition of work by Picasso and the grand masters who inspired… 02/02/2009
Hispanic archaeological treasures come back to Spain400 archaeological jewels of the Hispanic Society have returned to Spain, after being over a century in New York. Created by Archer Milton Huntington in New… 05/01/2009
Turner exhibition defies diplomatic differencesOne of Britain’s most celebrated artists, J.M.W. Turner, is on show in Moscow’s Pushkin Museum. The exhibition was negotiated by the British Council, which… 24/11/2008
