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Lawyer unknowingly buys stolen Winston Churchill portrait worth millions: ‘Like having a Mona Lisa’

Lawyer unknowingly buys stolen Winston Churchill portrait worth millions: ‘Like having a Mona Lisa’

The amateur art collector had been holding on to the photograph for about a year after realizing it could be the original when he got an email from Sotheby’s legal office asking to share his contact details with Canadian police.


I.S.O.: Ten to Fifteen Lesbians Over Sixty. Nudity Optional

I.S.O.: Ten to Fifteen Lesbians Over Sixty. Nudity Optional

She was looking for ten to fifteen lesbians over the age of sixty for a large group scene that she referred to as a “pleasure party.” She had secured soft commitments from a few out-of-towners, including a former nun, but, given the cost of accommodations in Cherry Grove, she needed to drum up interest among the locals.


British Museum Receives Its Most Expensive Gift, Michelangelo May Have Painted a Woman with Breast Cancer, Two Ben Enwonwu Works Discovered, and More: Morning Links for November 14, 2024

British Museum Receives Its Most Expensive Gift, Michelangelo May Have Painted a Woman with Breast Cancer, Two Ben Enwonwu Works Discovered, and More: Morning Links for November 14, 2024

A team of researchers led by Rafaella Bianucci proposes that the scene of The Flood in the Renaissance masterpiece contains the figure of one woman with possible symptoms of breast cancer, who is also looking down and pointing towards the ground, while sitting beside others who are condemned to die in the Old Testament story of Noah’s Ark.


Ei Arakawa-Nash’s Tokyo show tests the limits

Ei Arakawa-Nash’s Tokyo show tests the limits

Ei Arakawa-Nash’s show features a 2024 film created in collaboration with Reiji Saito, which pays tribute to Ellsworth Kelly’s colourful 1953 painting Spectrum I and to Tokyo’s LGBTQIA+ community Courtesy of the artists


Five Thought Experiments Concerning the Underlying Disease

Five Thought Experiments Concerning the Underlying Disease

Flower Sniffer walked around with, and, like a stomach designed for nuts and fruit suddenly faced with a TripleFlame Macaroni & Lard Burger, that brain starts having, well, digestive issues, but gives it a good try anyway.


Everything is elemental: the Art Week Tokyo Focus exhibition

Everything is elemental: the Art Week Tokyo Focus exhibition

In the wake of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident of 2011, volunteers gathered in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, to plant sunflowers in rice paddies that were left fallow due to radioactive contamination.


Dealers at Artissima await ‘potentially transformative’ changes to art tax in Italy

Dealers at Artissima await ‘potentially transformative’ changes to art tax in Italy

"We’ve indeed observed a gradual shift among collectors away from the UK, a trend that began with Brexit and has since been accelerated by Italy’s appealing flat tax," says Jose Graci, a director at Mazzoleni gallery, which has locations in London and Turin.


Van Gogh exhibitions coming up in 2025: the global programme revealed

Van Gogh exhibitions coming up in 2025: the global programme revealed

Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits opens at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (30 March-7 September 2025), an appropriate venue since it owns the finest of the postman paintings, along with one of his wife rocking the cradle of their newly born child.


‘A real leap of faith’: Swiss auction house to offer works authenticated by AI

‘A real leap of faith’: Swiss auction house to offer works authenticated by AI

Three works from the collection of the late curator Martin Kunz—by Louise Bourgeois, Marianne von Werefkin and Mimmo Paladino—will go under the hammer at Germann auction house in Zürich accompanied by AI authenticity certificates issued by the Swiss company Art Recognition.


Ancient Roman Ruins in Baalbek Survive Israeli Air Strikes

Ancient Roman Ruins in Baalbek Survive Israeli Air Strikes

Earlier this month, images circulated widely on social media of a large plume of smoke rising behind the columns of the Jupiter Temple in Baalbek after an Israeli air strike hit less than a mile away.


Tate Modern Reprises Its Groundbreaking Zanele Muholi Survey

Tate Modern Reprises Its Groundbreaking Zanele Muholi Survey

The series title translates from Zulu to “Hail the Dark Lioness,” an introduction and a command of respect that’s cemented in a gaze; in the Tate exhibition these high-contrast gelatin silver prints on paper accentuate Muholi’s digitally darkened skin and piercing whites of their eyes, which bore into the viewer with intensity.


Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière Awarded MOCA LA’s Inaugural Art and Environment Prize

Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière Awarded MOCA LA’s Inaugural Art and Environment Prize

Charrière explores our rapidly changing relationship with nature by conducting field research in remote locations such as glaciers, volcanoes, and radioactive sites, which informed his interdisciplinary film, photography, and sculpture practice.