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A French court on Thursday ruled that celebrity US artist Jeff Koons copied an idea from an advertisement used by a French clothing chain, fining him along with the museum which exhibited the contested work. Franck Davidovici, a French advertising executive, had sued Koons for plagiarism over Koons' "Fait d'Hiver" from 1988, which shows a pig standing over a woman lying on her back, her arms sprawled behind her head.

AS Monaco owner Dmitry Rybolovlev claims art dealer Yves Bouvier has cheated him out of $1 billion over a 10-year period. He was detained by police for questioning on Tuesday as part of an investigation into corruption and influence peddling. Le Monde report that the Russian tycoons luxury home La Belle Epoque had also been raided by police.

"I believe there is a natural educational aspect of art. Creativity provides plural ways to problem solve. It also establishes curiosity as a quintessential practice that makes us human, the urge to take risks or leap into the unknown and adapt".

To celebrate the anniversary of his death, ArtDependence will write a series of stories aimed at understanding the worldview of the man considered to be history’s greatest artist and one of its brightest minds. Only in the process of grasping his vision of the universe we begin to understand how he managed to almost recreate the mystery of life in his paintings; conceive of objects way beyond the technical capacities of his time like knight robots, parachutes, and self-propelling carts; and compile an encyclopedia of knowledge that reflects on the various dimensions of existence.

After more than three years of renovation, the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest will open on 31 October. Thanks to the largest-scale and most comprehensive reconstruction project in the museum’s history, the museum building has been renewed, and, returning to the collection’s first concept, the museum’s permanent exhibitions have also been rearranged. Besides the new permanent exhibitions, the revamped museum will welcome visitors with a chamber exhibition titled Leonardo & the Budapest Horse and Rider.

“Art exists because simply living is not enough. Taschen books are a display of the expansion of what is generally considered to be art. Art can be much more than simply a painting or a sculpture. Art is in food, and illustration, in tattoo and interior design, in architecture, and so on and so forth".

"The future is the antithesis of art; which should be the improvement of mankind, if it is the subject of and subject to crime. The Art Loss Register has been very active in helping to preserve antiquities in their source countries and to prevent the destruction of art. It is not well known that at least 20% of high value pictures have been stolen, destroyed or badly damaged. Criminals hide them to use in a trial as part of plea bargains and then either pass away or find they are too hot to hold".

After touring to Paris, New York, Hong Kong and and Los Angeles, this masterpiece will be offered on 13 November from the collection of Barney A. Ebsworth. ‘In New York’s restaurants, women, especially young ones, were on public display as never before,’ explains Patti Junker, curator of American art at the Seattle Art Museum. ‘Hopper’s restaurant pictures all focus on these young working-class women, and thus they understand something essential about the character of the modern city in which he painted.

The concept of freedom is constantly changing. This exhibition charts its psychological, cultural, religious, political and legal evolution against the backdrop of historical developments, to arrive at a contemporary understanding of what freedom means. Works by more than fifty artists shed light on this complex issue from various angles.

In 2019, the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig is awarding the Wolfgang Hahn Prize to Jac Leirner. For many years now, the work of the Brazilian artist (b. 1961 in São Paulo) has engaged in a subtle analysis of social and representational systems. Found, often industrially produced everyday objects play an important role here; following the principle of collecting, accumulating, and classifying, Leirner uses them to create installations, collages, and sculptures.

"Your passion is pure joy to me" by Stijn Celis, choreographed on four tracks by Nick Cave and his band, The Bad Seeds, is a research over an eternal question: what kind of consolation is possible after infinite and miscellaneous catastrophes?

Picasso’s love affairs were legendary and they fuelled his creativity. Ahead of the sale of four portraits of his different muses from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection, we focus on the women he came to depend on so passionately.

Brazilian officials said Friday they have recovered pieces of a 12,000-year-old fossil of a neolithic woman that was among the prized artifacts in Rio de Janeiro's burnt down National Museum.

The National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts symbolizes the transformation of Kaohsiung, once a major international harbour, into a modern, diverse city with a rich cultural climate. Mecanoo designed the National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts, located on a former military terrain, as an integral part of the adjacent subtropical park to have a positive social impact on the residents of Kaohsiung whose population counts almost 3 million.

Brussels - Tests conducted last year at the MSK in Ghent have resulted in evidence that clearly and indisputably proves the works of the controversial Toporovski collection are genuine and authentic. This is what the suspended director of the MSK, Catherine de Zegher, announced on Wednesday at a press conference. Before the press conference could begin, two bailiffs entered the premises with a petition.

At a heavily attended press conference held by Leo Neels, Catherine de Zegher and Igor Toporovski, the five experts and dealers from London, New York, Dusseldorf and Bath to request the recording have filed a lawsuit against Catherine de Zegher.

The service that has ‘discovered’ a Claude Monet painting valued at £1.5m, a Medieval chastity belt valued at £2,000, a mid 19th-century golf ball valued at £20,000, and a request to value a mother-in-law, is the latest acquisition by Barnebys, the world’s leading search engine for art and collectibles.

Melvin Ramos, The Sacramento-born Pop art painter Mel Ramos, known for appropriated cartoon imagery and randy depictions of nude women incongruously set among commercial icons, has died. Mel Ramos was an American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art.

To celebrate 2018 as the European Year of Cultural Heritage, Piql will preserve the top ten European cultural relics in the Arctic World Archive, for the following 500 years.  These relics will join existing treasures such as digitised manuscripts from the Vatican Library and Edvard Munch’s The Scream.

Two simultaneous, complementary exhibitions of Anthropocene opened on September 28th at the National Gallery of Canada (NCG) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). ArtDependence Magazine had a chance to talk to Andrea Kunard, the curator of Anthropocene at the NGC about the project.