Surprising Discovery at Angkor Wat
BBC - António da Madelena, a Portuguese Capuchin friar, was one of the first Western visitors to Angkor Wat, the monumental and moated 12th Century Hi...
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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,...
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'...
Grandmother of French New Wave Agnès Varda on Becoming an Artist at 88
Artsy - Though known as the “grandmother of the French New Wave,” for decades 88-year-old Agnès Varda felt she wasn’t allowed to be an artist. Looking...
Is Art an Object of Passion or an Asset Like Any Other?
Artsy - As the global ultra-rich snap up trophy artworks and build collections scattered around many homes and storage facilities, art services are be...
Facebook slammed for not removing sexualized child images
CNET - Facebook has come under fire again for failing to remove sexualized images of children. As part of a BBC investigation, published Tuesday, 10...
WikiLeaks: Here’s how the CIA hacks your phones, TVs and PCs
CNET - WikiLeaks says it's released thousands of documents showing the CIA's secret hacking tools that the agency can use to break into our phones, ca...
Jenny Holzer to use augmented reality in Blenheim Palace show
The Art Newspaper - The US artist Jenny Holzer will show new works, some of them using augmented reality, in an exhibition due to open at Blenheim Pal...
Mondrian Turned His Studios into Giant Abstract Paintings
Artsy - Piet Mondrian was almost 70 when he had his first solo show, but his bold, geometric paintings have since become iconic. Lesser-known (but no ...
Controversial trove from imperial Chinese shipwreck lands in New York
The Art Newspaper - Treasures from an ancient shipwreck, discovered off the coast of an Indonesian island, will be shown in the US for the first time....