Copenhagen's third annual Light Festival sparked into life over the weekend, with colourful displays from artists and designers
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The opening of the long-awaited Munch Museum in Oslo has been postponed until the autumn due to delays in the building process
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Cut, paste and remix your way through this century-spanning history of collage
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A decade ago, a new spirit of tolerance of the avant garde blossomed in Russia. But these days, it’s impossible to know where the lines are—as the country’s most celebrated director discovered
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Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic – only known painting by Dutch master while he had psychosis is unmistakably his work
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Big isn't better, it's just better; the restoration of St. Francis
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The tragedy of art’s greatest supermodel
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The conservation of Salvator Mundi (No, not that one)
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Banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $120,000
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Art Basel: Maurizio Cattelan's $120,000 banana eaten by artist
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Danish artist Tal R seeks to stop his work being cut up to make watches
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A piece of kitchen art sold for $26 million. A long-lost painting by Italian pre-Renaissance artist Cimabue had been hanging above a stove in an elderly French woman’s home.
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Microscopically reweaving a 1907 painting
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In Helsinki, an underrated arts scene gets its own biennial – set to debut on June 2020
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How Chagall’s daughter smuggled his work out of Nazi-occupied Europe
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The powerful women whose patronage shaped art history
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The scandalous painting that helped create modern art | Édouard Manet's Olympia
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The conservation of George Inness' "The Roman Campagna"
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Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel has won Dave's 'Funniest Joke of The Fringe' award with the niche culinary pun
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Thousands of sandcastles appear on Helsinki beach as part of massive public art project
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Olafur Eliasson returns to Tate Modern with tonne of white Lego – retrospective investigates how we respond to nature
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Swedish artist Pappas Pärlor is vandalizing streets with his stunning pixel art
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Finland's Munch – The unnerving art of Helene Schjerfbeck
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Last year, a museum in France dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus discovered that over half of its collection was fake. Phil Hoad spent nine months investigating how it happened.
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The lost Louvre of Uzbekistan: The museum that hid art banned by Stalin
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Eat like Andy Warhol
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When tech makes food insecurity worse
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How Banksy authenticates his work
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A painting long thought to be a fake Botticelli turned out to be real. British conservators confirmed the authenticity of “Madonna of the Pomegranate” via X-ray and infrared tests.
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Thieves steal a famous painting from an Italian church — but don't worry, it's fake
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The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief - Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums and amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion
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Is it OK to like the work of bad people?
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Restoration of an Icon of Ave Maria on wood
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Basquiat used invisible ink to make secret drawings in his paintings
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Michelangelo’s Sistine splendor, story of a Renaissance icon
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A newly-discovered note may finally prove that the much-disputed portrait of young Jane Austen is, in fact, the novelist herself
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Only Michelangelo made abdomens – and wonky toes – like these
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These portraits were made by AI: None of these people exist
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Bursts of stylized flowers by ‘Ouizi’ transform buildings into floral canvases
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Artist Mat Collishaw is on a quest to reveal the real woman behind the mask of Elizabeth I, the famously image-conscious monarch
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Ex-Prime Minister Julia Gillard's portrait unveiled in Parliament House
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Sydney street art uses miniature signs to make people aware of surroundings
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Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights
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Banksy painting self-destructs after fetching $1.4 Million at Sotheby’s
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The tallest mural in the southern hemisphere is on a Melbourne commission flat
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How one man is recreating lost colors
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The great Chinese art heist
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The great Chinese art heist
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Manhole covers: A window into a city’s soul – in pictures
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Ai Wei Wei's Beijing studio destroyed by Chinese authorities
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