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Sotheby’s Upcoming Auction; Eyes on Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ Sotheby’s is set to auction Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ on 20 November 2024 at its Now and Contemporary Evening Auction in New York. The sculpture is essentially a banana attached to a wall with duct tape. With an estimated sale price of $1 million to $1.5 million (up […]

Archaeologists have discovered a throne room and its surroundings in the ancient city of Pañamarca, Peru which could indicate women were ruling more than 1,300 years ago. In total they have uncovered a complex of ritual buildings, which together suggest that Pañamarca was the religious and political powerhouse in ancient Moche times — around 700

The Maharashtra government has awarded a ₹20 crore contract to Ram Sutar Art Creations for a new 60-foot statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Sindhudurg, following the collapse of the previous 35-foot statue on August 26, 2024. Led by Anil Ram Sutar, who also built the Statue of Unity, the new statue will be more

In a significant recovery effort, the FBI’s Art Crime Team, in collaboration with its New York and New Orleans Field Offices and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, has repatriated a looted Claude Monet pastel, Bord de Mer, to its rightful owners. The artwork, created around 1865, was seized by the

Located at the National Gallery in London, activists pasted an image of a Palestinian mother and child over Pablo Picasso’s 1901 painting Motherhood (La Maternité). Jai Halai, who is 23 and works for the National Health Service, and student Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 21, carried out the protest to highlight the difficulties faced by families in Gaza.

Taking place on October 9–13 in The Regent’s Park, Frieze London presents cutting-edge contemporary art from over 290 galleries from 43 countries. New to this year’s fair is a revamped layout, courtesy of A Studio Between, that will provide greater visibility to its selection of world-class galleries and special curated sections such as the popular

A modern art piece that looked like two empty beer cans were nearly trash-canned when workers at the Lisser Art Museum in the Netherlands mistook it for garbage. All The Good Times We Spent Together by French artist Alexandre Lavet, a piece displayed in a glass lift as part of an exhibit. The artwork was

However, the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, especially after the October 7, 2023 crisis, has prompted various Israeli and Palestinian artists to use their mediums to talk about war, trauma, and survival. Consequently, the mounting deaths and loss on both sides terrified numerous artists who resorted to painting, music, dance, photography, and film to

Three paintings once believed to be works of van Gogh’s that had been held in private collections were recently determined fake by the Van Gogh Museum. One of these calls a painting of a peasant woman that commanded almost $1 million at Christie’s in 2011, even though the Amsterdam museum says it had authenticated the