Jeff Koons convicted of plagiarism
DW - A Paris court ruled on Thursday that the American artist and the Centre Pompidou museum in Paris, which intended to show Koon's sculpture "Naked," must pay 20,000 euros ($21,225) in compensation to the fam...
TEFAF, the art market for the super rich opens in Maastricht
DW - If dozens of private jets from the US or Asia are landing at Maastricht-Aachen airport and hotel prices in the region are skyrocketing, then it's TEFAF time. From March 10-19, the conference hall in this ...
Female Old Masters finally get their day in the sun
The Art Newspaper - Female Old Masters are enjoying a belated renaissance. A major survey of the 18th-century French portraitist Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun drew crowds at the Grand Palais in Paris, the Metr...
NEWS Turkish art show granted ‘asylum’ in Germany
The Art Newspaper - A Turkish art exhibition has been granted “asylum” in Germany after it was cancelled in Turkey in early 2016. Post-Peace, on show at the Württemberger Kunstverein (WKV) in Stuttgart since 25...
Ren Hang: Death of China’s hotshot erotic photographer
BBC - Known for his provocative pictures and poetry, Ren's often explicit work had been exhibited in galleries all over the world. He shot for major fashion brands and magazines such as Gucci and GQ China.
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More than science fiction: society’s deepest fears and hopes in film
DW -"For a storyteller, a perfect future is the most boring thing one could imagine," says Reiner Rother, director of the Berliner Kinemathek. That's why the films shown at the Berlinale retrospective portray d...
German museum discovers it’s had a Rembrandt for nearly 250 years
DW - The drawing of a dog has been in the German museum's collection since 1770, but only now have experts discovered that Dutch master Rembrandt created the artwork. It's now slated to go on show.
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First French art prize for female artists awarded
The Art Newspaper - France's culture ministry has lent support to a women's contemporary art prize launched by AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions), founded by Camille Morineau, the new d...
KLIMT LANDSCAPE, ESTIMATED AT OVER $45 M., WILL LEAD SOTHEBY’S IMP-MOD SALE IN LONDON
ART NEWS - On Wednesday, Bloomberg’s Katya Kazakina revealed that Oprah Winfrey had parted with Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912) for $150 million, in a private deal brokered by Larry Gagosian tha...
Controversial Assassination Picture Wins 2017 World Press Photo Award
Hyperallergic - Turkish AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici’s shocking photograph of Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, a 22-year-old off-duty police officer, standing over the dead body of Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey ...