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Article date: Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Copyright: NASA, Credits: InSight Lander

NASA's InSight Lander has shared the first clear picture from Mars after landing on the Red Planet, its new home. The InSight Lander from NASA will be on Mars for the next two years.

Article date: Monday, November 26, 2018

'Magritte. La Ligne de Vie' Introduced by the Museo d’Arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano

The exhibition Magritte. La Ligne de vie, held in partnership with the Magritte Foundation in Brussels, includes approximately ninety of the Belgian artist’s works, on loan from international museums and private collectors. The exhibition focuses around the theme of a conference entitled “La Ligne de vie” which Magritte held in Antwerp in 1938.

Article date: Monday, November 26, 2018

Egyptian Archaeologists Unveil Newly Discovered Luxor Tombs

Egyptian authorities on Saturday unveiled a well-preserved mummy of a woman inside a previously unopened coffin in Luxor in southern Egypt dating back more than 3,000 years. The sarcophagus, an ancient coffin, was one of two found earlier this month by a French-led mission in the northern area of El-Asasef, a necropolis on the western bank of the Nile.

Article date: Sunday, November 25, 2018

Banksy Works Worth £12m Impounded in Belgium After Legal Row

Brussels exhibition was closed by bailiffs after a dispute over ownership of the street art. It had been advertised as “Banksy unauthorised”, a retrospective of 58 of the street artist’s most famous works, put on display in an empty supermarket in a swanky part of Brussels.

Article date: Monday, November 19, 2018

Sanqine. Luc Tuymans On Baroque

Fondazione Prada presents the exhibition “Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque”, curated by Luc Tuymans, in its Milan venue. Organized with M KHA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp) and KMSKA (Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp) and the City of Antwerp, the project will be featured in Milan in a new and more extensive version, following its first presentation in the Belgian city from June to September 2018.

Article date: Friday, November 9, 2018

French Court Finds Jeff Koons Guilty of Plagiarism

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.

Article date: Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Dmitry Rybolovlev, Seller of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, Held by Police in Corruption Probe

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.

Article date: Sunday, October 28, 2018

Chop Suey, 1929 — the Most Iconic Edward Hopper Painting Left in Private Hands

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.

Article date: Tuesday, October 23, 2018

The 25th Wolfgang Hahn Prize Goes to the Brazilian Artist Jac Leirner

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.

Article date: Monday, October 22, 2018

Four Portraits of the Women who Loved and Were Loved by Picasso

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.

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