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The charges against Rubenstein involve several cases in which prosecutors claim he misinformed clients over the selling price of artworks, or claimed no knowledge on the whereabouts of the amounts paid.

The Chairman and Trustees of the Serpentine Galleries have announced that Yana Peel, co-finder of Outset Contemporary Art Fund and CEO of Intelligence Squared, has been appointed CEO of the Serpentine Galleries in partnership with Hans Ulrich Obrist as Artistic Director.

Romanticist landscape painter JMW Turner has been chosen to be the face of the new £20 note, which will enter circulation in 2020. Turner has been chosen from over 500 possibilities, which included Francis Bacon and Alexander McQueen.

Rodin’s celebrated marble of embracing lovers L’ÉTERNEL PRINTEMPS appearing at auction for the first time in Sotheby’s May sale of Impressionist & Modern Art

The annual Coachella Arts and Music Festival that takes place over two weekends in the Southern California desert city of Indio on historical polo grounds has quickly become known as the preeminent musical festival of our time. Part of its popularity is due to its wide conglomeration of genre-crossing musical acts that span age, race and class to deliver a cross section of the current psyche of music lovers worldwide. But this year Goldenvoice, which produces the festival, has really upped its offerings through commissioning six artworks by internationally renowned artists on a grand scale as part of the event’s ambiance.

In a recent wave of re-discovery, a painting believed to be by Caravaggio has been found in a dusty attic in France.

Curated by the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset – the 15th Istanbul Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by Koç Holding, will take place between 16 September and 12 November 2017. Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgreen, dr.h.c. and Ingar Dragset, dr.h.c.) are an artist duo who have worked together since 1995.

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.