A painting of Lady Godiva has been loaned to France ahead of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. The 19th Century artwork of Coventry's medieval legend was painted by John Collier and was part of the city's Herbert Art Gallery & Museum’s collections. But the museum said it had...

Lady Godiva painting set for French palace display

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An artist will cover the walls of an empty shop with chocolate to “engage the senses”, 21 years after she was nominated for the Turner Prize.The artwork by Anya Gallaccio will be unveiled at 18 High Street in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in September as part of Jupiter+, Jupiter Artland’s nationwide art and learning programme.The installation will “engage the senses” with “beautifully scented chocolate”, organisers said, in the unoccupied shop space in the town where Gallaccio was born.The acclaimed artist, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003, was born in Paisley but grew up in London and went on to...

Shop walls to be covered in chocolate in Anya Gallaccio art installation

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	People still struggling to wrap their heads around NFTs, generative AI art, and other new forms of expression might just give up at the idea of collecting experiences as art. The mere mention of the concept elicits questioning, like the title of the panel discussion, “Can you collect experiences?” hosted by VIV Arts, a new sales platform supporting artists and collectors in the experiential art sector, which was held at Christie’s London on Wednesday evening.At Christie’s, VIV Arts co-founders Carlota Dochao Naveira and Oliva Sartogo, were joined by Ana Ofak, a co-founder of “hybrid” art collective Transmoderna, and Nassia Inglessis, founder...

Christie’s London Invited Players From the Experiential Art Sector to Discuss ‘Collecting Experiences’

Falmouth-based artist Justin Wiggan uses equipment to transform energy from plants into audio.

Sound artist transforms plants into instruments

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. When a French family relocated from the U.S. to the U.K., they hit the property jackpot with a tired-looking but traditional Victorian townhouse in London’s polished Kensington neighborhood. They enlisted the multidisciplinary firm OWN London to revamp the property and opened up the narrow entryway to the front lounge. But in doing so, it meant that as soon as you walked in, the first thing you saw was the TV screen on the central wall.

The Artwork in This London Living Room Is Actually a Big TV Cover-up

Yesterday during Paris Haute Couture Week, exploratory fashion designer Iris van Herpen magically blurred the boundaries between fashion, art, and performance, unveiling an inaugural series of aerial sculptures brought to life by Gia Bab, Lily Cole, Isshe Hungry, Coco Rocha, and Iekeline Stange. Amid a lively moment in time for...

Iris van Herpen Elevates Haute Couture to an Art Exhibition

In the realm of online bargains, an astute buyer stumbled upon what could be described as the deal of a lifetime in 2021. Initially labeled as a "fake" Degas, a pastel drawing caught the attention of a savvy thrifter. Upon closer examination with the assistance of expert Michel Schulman, it was determined that this masterpiece was likely éloge du maquillage (In praise of cosmetics) (1876), a renowned brothel scene painted by Edgar Degas, which had been missing for several decades.

Artwork Bought Online for $1,000 Turns Out to Be $13 Million Degas Masterpiece

In late 1922, expert photographer Harry Burton joined archaeologist Howard Carter's team as they uncovered the tomb of Ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun. Ten years later and with over 5,000 objects from the site documented, Burton had amassed an incredible record of photographs from that world-famous discovery. One particular photo from...

Tutankhamun: The first ever view inside the tomb

The vehicle careered off the road in a 40mph zone, broke through a fence and crashed into a gym.

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	After trying to steal a Banksy in Paris, a man received a two-year suspended prison sentence from a French court on Wednesday.Architects for the Centre Pompidou's Five-Year Renovation Project Have Been Announced




	The mysterious British graffiti artist had stenciled a masked rat holding a box cutter on the back of a Paris parking sign, near the Centre Pompidou, in 2018. The 38-year-old musician Mejdi R. admitted to using an angle grinder to remove the painted part of the sign.




	The man claimed to be a friend of Banksy and said he’d been called to retrieve the artwork, along with a “team” of...

Man Receives Two-Year Prison Sentence for Stealing a Banksy Artwork in France

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

The former nurse, 34, attempted to murder the premature baby by dislodging her breathing tube.

Lucy Letby sentenced to 15th whole life term

Virginia McCullough pleads guilty to killing her mum and dad, whose bodies were found at her home.

Woman admits murdering her parents

Missing for 80 years and thought lost, a painting banned by the Nazis has sold for almost £6m (€7m) at auction.Only seen before in black-and-white photos taken by the artist themself, Tanz im Varieté took art historians across the world by surprise when it turned up at a Berlin auction house earlier this year.German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who is known for his vibrant abstract pieces, was included on the Nazis “degenerate art” list which saw over 600 of his works sold or destroyed under the regime.Tanz im Varieté was thought to be among them, until it resurfaced in what...

Painting banned by Nazis and lost for 80 years stuns art world as it sells for £6m at auction

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Pueblo Revival Cottage, 1946, Boston

Police had spotted the van as it tried to avoid their patrol car in the early hours of Thursday.

Man arrested after cannabis plants found in van

A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the blaze broke out in Hereford.

Murder arrest after man dies in house fire

Two friends from Kent say they are traumatised after witnessing the death of a Romanian tourist during a mountain safari in Turkey. Faith O'Neill and Cheryl Morris, from Northfleet, near Gravesend, say they were offered no support after the incident on a tour in Alanya. Contstantin Butnarescu, 32, a Romanian...

Tourists traumatised after witnessing safari death

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Invoking philosophy, womanhood and religion, the Delhi- and London-based artist turns material objects into something truly human

‘My sculptures are alive. They dance around the gallery at night’: the viscerally spiritual art of Bharti Kher 

OTTERLO.- After a thorough restoration, 56 Barrels (1968) by Bulgarian-American artist Christo (Gabrovo, 1935 – New York City, 2020) is back on display in all its glory in the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum. Exposed to the weather, the work had suffered greatly: the barrels were full of rust, the paint was worn and there were cracks in the concrete base. A presentation on the history of this work is currently on display in the museum.

Kröller-Müller Museum restores '56 Barrels' by Christo

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Work of 60 artists on display in city trail

The artworks around Sunderland include paintings, sculptures, performances and...

Work of 60 artists on display in city trail

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