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Intricate, Beautiful, Raunchy: Japan Embraces Its Ancient Erotic Print Tradition
by Claire Voon for Hyperallergic
October 2015-- Ukiyo-e, the popular color woodblock prints of Japan, are globally recognized and renowned, but their raunchier examples tend to see less light, rarely going on public...
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March 2015--A stolen Picasso painting which was considered lost for years has resurfaced in the United States, where it had been shipped under false pretenses as a $37 Christmas present...
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November 2014--The true nature of Vincent van Gogh’s death continues to be a topic ripe for mystery – after a leading forensics expert has claimed that the artist was murdered...
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March 2014--It’s long been believed that painter Paul Gauguin was wrecked by syphilis when he died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903, but thanks to some old teeth thrown down a well, he may posthumously...
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How Van Gogh's Sunflowers came into bloom
by Frances Spalding
January 2014--At first nobody wanted them. Van Gogh painted four images of sunflowers in a pot, and then three copies that depart in many details from the originals. Together, they...
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Antiques Roadshow portrait revealed to be by Anthony Van Dyck
by British Broadcasting Corporation UK
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Looted by the Nazis, found in a squalid apartment: �1bn cache of degenerate art
by Tony Paterson
November 2013--A cache of “lost” paintings looted by the Nazis before the Second World War containing some 1,500 works by world-renowned artists including Picasso, Matisse...
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October 2013--A painting by Zeng Fanzhi sold for US$23.3 million at a Sotheby's auction on Saturday night in Hong Kong, setting a new record price for a work by an Asian contemporary...
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P183 Dead: Street Artist Known As 'Russian Banksy' Dies At 29 Years Old
by By: Vladimir Isachenko
The Teatralnoye Delo theatrical production company, which recently commissioned Pasha P183 to create scenery for the musical "Todd," said the artist died Monday in Moscow. It wouldn't elaborate...