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Magnus Resch has officially announced the launch of a new mobile app for the art world. Users take a photo of an artwork and the app returns all details, including prices. For the first time in art history, prices from both galleries and auction houses are made available for free. The app can be downloaded free from the Apple App Store.

Open letter from Jan Fabre and his team in reply to the letter of Greek artists.

An original copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio has been discovered in a Scottish island. Published in 1623, seven years after the playwright’s death, this was the first attempt to compile Shakespeare’s works into one publication.

Olafur Eliasson is inviting refugees, migrants, and university students to take part in a workshop at TBA21–Augarten, Vienna, together with the gallery’s regular visitors.

The Next Rembrandt has been unveiled in Amsterdam: a 3D printed painting, made solely from data of Rembrandt’s body of work. Thus bringing the Master of Light and Shadow back to life to create one more painting. Only this time, data is the painter, and technology the brush.

In just over two months, on 11 June, 2016, Manifesta 11 opens its doors in Zurich under the title What People Do for Money: Some Joint Ventures. Preparations for the large international art exhibition are nearing completion: the new productions, that are arising between international artists and Zurich professionals of other professions, are getting more and more concrete. What do I do for money? What does my work do to me at the same time?

Russian state television footage from Palmyra on Sunday, as well as drone video obtained from the Syrian Military Media Centre, showed aerials of what remained of the ancient city after the Islamic State group (IS) was forced from the area. (March 27)

Sean Kelly is pleased to announce that Idris Khan has been selected to design a permanent public monument for the new Memorial Park in Abu Dhabi, commemorating Emiratis who have sacrificed their lives in service to the UAE.

We talk with artist Valerio Nicolai and curator Matteo Mottin for more insight into the difference between vision and perspective, and the role of the audience.

Take a photograph of a street with a person riding a bicycle on the right side and a house on the left side of the picture. Then take an image of that same street, this time with a man jumping off the roof of the house and about to fall onto a tarpaulin held by seven men and with a photographer documenting the scene on the lower side of the picture. If you combine both photographs and remove the seven men and the photographer you will probably guess that the man suspended on the air is Yves Klein and that the image in question is 'Saut dans le Vide' (Leap into the Void, 1960).

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Google Cultural Institute are launching the Bruegel / Unseen Masterpieces / project, for the first time ever, bringing together eight prestigious international museums around the figure of Bruegel the Elder. Drawing on a wide spectrum of virtual and onsite experiences, this unique initiative offers everyone the chance to immerse themselves in Bruegel's masterpieces.

According to El Pais the 5 paintings were stolen last June from a Madrid mansion. It is unclear why details have emerged now.

FRANCOFONIA is the story of two remarkable men, louvre director Jacques Jaujard and Nazi Occupation offcer Count Franziskus Wolff-Metternich - enemies then collaborators - whose alliance would be the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures. FRANCOFONIA explores the relationship between art and power, the Louvre museum as a living example of civilization, and what art tells us about ourselves even in the midst of one of the bloodiest conflicts the world has ever seen.

Not many family art collections in the world can boast such a committed and complex approach to building its collection of contemporary art as the Zabludowicz family can. Since the 1990s Poju and Anita Zabludowicz have been accumulating their broad and extensive collection of artworks, which now counts over 3,000 pieces. In addition to digging for some details on the Collection’s upcoming exhibition Emotional Supply Chains, Artdependence Magazine spoke with Director Elizabeth Neilson and curator Paul Luckraft about the history of the family’s collection, its development over the years, their work with young artists, and their various programs.

Michelangelo Pistoletto is an exhibition that can be visited until the 27th of March at Blueproject Foundation in Barcelona. This is the case of a solo exhibition that shows eight works of the artist, covering the last forty years of his production. From some classic Arte Povera pieces like L’alto in basso, il basso in alto (1977), Senza titolo 92 (1976) and Specchio di taglio (1976), in which the artist reflects on fundamental problems like identity, to his last works.

Our upcoming new issue of Artdependence Magazine is just about to appear.

The Serpentine has announced that, in tandem with the 16th Pavilion, it expands its internationally acclaimed programme of exhibiting architecture in a built form by commissioning four architects to each design a 25sqm Summer House. The four Summer Houses are inspired by the nearby Queen Caroline’s Temple, a classical style summer house, built in 1734 and a stone’s throw from the Serpentine Gallery.

Exclusive news for the Royal Library and the Fin-de-Siècle Museum: an until recently unknown artwork of Jean Delville has been (re)discovered in the collections of the Royal Library’s Prints Cabinet. As a privileged partner of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the Library is exhibiting this rare discovery at the Fin-de-Siècle Museum.

CHRISTIE'S POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING AUCTION, 11 February 2016, London, King Street.

I always knew I had something to give or say. The kind of confidence one needs to be an artist for the long haul- I've always had that. Even as a very small child. But it didn't have a name or a real drive until I was a teenager.