Artworks by Monet and Basquiat included in $700 million settlement between US Justice Department and Jho Low
As of last week, Low Taek Jho, the now disgraced Malaysian financier and art collector better known as Jho Low, will be required to hand over $700 million worth of […]
Visitors can now see the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel like never before…if you’ve got money to spend
Navigating your way around the highlights of the Vatican are not for the faint of heart…or those who can’t stand a crowd. Each day, around 30,000 people (totalling up to […]
Notre Dame among sites considered at-risk by World Monuments Fund
Every two years, the World Monuments Fund (WMF), based in New York City, announces sites around the world that are deemed to be at-risk. The purpose of the list is […]
Facebook meets with artists to discuss issues of censorship
In the early hours of a June Sunday, about 100 or so nude people took to the space outside Facebook’s Manhattan headquarters. There, they posed for photographer Spencer Tunick while […]
Before Walt Disney, there was Lotte Reiniger – the story of the world’s first animated feature
Alexander Sergeant, University of Portsmouth The oldest surviving animated feature was not made by Walt Disney, but by a German puppeteer named Lotte Reiniger who escaped Nazi persecution to move […]
Panel by Cimabue sells for €24.2 million, shattering pre-sale estimates
In a packed-out auction house of around 900 people on Sunday in the French town of Senlis, a panel painting believed to be by Cimabue busted its pre-sale estimate when […]
You’ve heard of the Monuments Men, but now, US military are looking to safeguard artworks with new initiative
Between 1943 and 1951, a special group of militaries called the Monuments Men reclaimed four million of the estimated five million paintings, artworks, books, manuscripts, and various other valuable that […]
