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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 16: Close-up view of King Charles' first official portrait since the coronation painted by Jonathan Yeo on public display at Philip Mould Gallery in central London, Britain, May, 16, 2024. The painting about 8ft 6in by 6ft 6in in size shows King Charles in the uniform of the Welsh Guards. The painting will be on display until 14 June and will go on display in Drapers' Hall from the end of August. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Divisive royal portraits and a $6.2-million banana: 2024’s biggest art controversies
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Charlie Brown and Linus in "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
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Why ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ almost didn’t air — and why it endures
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How ‘The Brutalist’ built architect László Tóth — inside and out
Dec 20, 2024
"Mufasa: The Lion King" examines the turbulent relationship between brothers Mufasa and Scar.
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Barry Jenkins on why ‘Mufasa’ contains the ‘voice of Africa’
Dec 19, 2024
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments.
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Oldest stone tablet inscribed with Bible’s Ten Commandments sells for $5 million
Dec 18, 2024
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The artist making unsettling AI images of the human body
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A supplied image obtained on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, of Kirsha Kaechele artist and curator of the ladies' lounge at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art.
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Controversial women-only art installation reopens, allowing some men to enter for ‘reparations’
Dec 18, 2024
February 6, 2020 - New York, NY. Lorraine O'Grady poses for a portrait. Credit: LELANIE FOSTER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES 30252951A NYTCREDIT: Lelanie Foster for The New York Times
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Lorraine O’Grady, groundbreaking conceptual artist, dies aged 90
JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA - DECEMBER 05: Aamir Khan poses in the portrait studio during the Red Sea International Film Festival 2024 on December 05, 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)
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Aamir Khan is ready for his next act
A rare Roman dodecahedron was found in Lincolnshire, England last summer and is set to go on display in the Lincoln Museum in Lincoln, England.
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Rendering of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from aerial view featuring the Tang Wing.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals design for new $550-million wing
a librarian who discovered a series of Nazi looted books in the library where she works at UCLA and helped to repatriate them to the Jewish Museum in Prague
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‘Book detectives’ step up hunt for Jewish-owned works looted by the Nazis
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Title: ‼️BREAKING: No Cheese Gromit! King Charles Portrait Redecorated‼️ @RoyalFamily ‼️Find out why King Charles, Patron of the RSPCA should ask them to drop the Assured Scheme -> https://t.co/pTneW0QCWf 👈 https://t.co/jYLHFuxtHB
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Video Video shows King Charles’ portrait being vandalized by activists 0:51
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Mar 20, 2024
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Artist Takashi Murakami poses in front his work named Gion Sairei-zu during a photo call ahead of his new exhibition, Japanese Art History a la Takashi Murakami, at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, central London. Picture date: Tuesday December 10, 2024. 78444340 (Press Association via AP Images)
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Takashi Murakami uses AI to help recreate ancient Japanese paintings in latest show
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‘This is all pink and attractive, but we are going to die’: Anastasia Samoylova on photographing Florida’s climate anxiety
Part of 2500 panda sculptures are displayed at the Hong Kong International Airport during a welcome ceremony of the panda-themed exhibition "Panda Go!" in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
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Hong Kong will display 2,500 panda sculptures to capitalize on a local bear craze
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By reviving a century-old patent for blue paint, this architect reflects on a powerful, lesser-told history
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Adrian Langtry/Shutterstock (14077957b) 'Well Hung Lover,' also called 'Naked Man Hanging From Window' and simply 'Naked Man,' is a mural by the anonymous street artist Banksy, on a wall on Frogmore Street. It has been partially defaced since first appearing in 2006. 'Well Hung Lover' mural by Banksy, Bristol, England, UK - 15 Apr 2023
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Buy a building, get a Banksy. ‘Well Hung Lover’ Bristol property goes on sale
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For over 25 years, this photographer had a window-side seat at the Macy’s Parade
A view shows the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, August 28, 2017. Officials at the 854-year old Notre-Dame cathedral, France's most-visited monument, say it is in urgent need of raising 100 million euros ($120.40 million) to repair everything from damaged arches and statutes to broken down gargoyles. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
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Coronations, protests and tightrope artists: Iconic images from Notre Dame’s history ahead of reopening
John Lennon, Eric Clapton at the photocall at The Rolling Stones Rock 'n' Roll Circus, Intertel TV Studios, Stonebridge Park, 10 December 1968.
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Letter from John Lennon asking Eric Clapton to form new supergroup with him goes up for sale
George Stubbs, The Spanish Pointer (esHmate: £1,500,000 – 2,000,000) This seminal pain2ng is the earliest and one of the most recognisable of all Stubbs’ depic2ons of dogs. Painted circa 1766-68, at the height of the ar2st’s career, it dates to the decade when Stubbs produced many of the pain2ngs for which he is most famous, including the Na2onal Gallery’s beloved Whistlejacket. The Spanish Pointer has only been exhibited once in the 250 years since it was painted and has only rarely appeared at auc2on.
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George Stubbs dog painting expected to sell for up to $2.5 million at auction
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‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’: The anti-apartheid photographer who turned his lens on Black America
circa 1500: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), an Italian diplomat and political theorist. He served in the Florentine government until the Medici restoration in 1512, and in 1513, wrote his most famous work, 'The Prince'. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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Rare first edition of Machiavelli’s famous leadership treatise, ‘The Prince,’ goes up for auction
FILE - Artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece of art "Comedian" hangs on display during an auction preview at Sotheby's in New York, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
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Viral banana artwork has sold again — this time for $6.24 million
The Danner Memorial Window, one of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s greatest masterpieces, achieved $12.48M, setting a new auction record for Tiffany Studios.
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Stained-glass Tiffany window sells for record $12.48 million at auction
Italy's Carabinieri presents recovered Etruscan archaeological artefacts, in Rome, Italy, November 19, 2024. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
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Italy recovers Etruscan artifacts dug up by ‘amateurish’ tomb raiders
René Magritte's L'empire des lumières
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René Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ sells for record $121 million
Vladimir Shklyarov, pictured in London in October 2008
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Russian ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov dies after falling from building