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Silvia Vacca/Pompeii Sites
Newly discovered Pompeii frieze shows wild Bacchanalian rituals
Danielle Mckinney paintings
Pierre Le Hors
From Instagram to art world darling: The meteoric rise of Danielle Mckinney
This screenshot made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled "America," by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, September 16, 2016.
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Three men on trial over $6 million gold toilet stolen in ‘audacious raid’
The portrait shows Candomblé practitioner Samara Souza making an offering to Yemanjá, the Yoruba deity of the sea waters. Yemanjá's name means "the mother whose sons are fishes" and she is the most popular orixá in Brazil. Due to syncretism, in Brazil she is represented by an image of a white, skinny woman, while in Africa her image shows a corpulent woman with big milking breasts.
Gui Christ/Sony World Photography Awards 2025
Sony World Photography Awards 2025: The year’s best images unveiled
The Carbinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage discovered a clandestine painting laboratory in coordination with the Rome public prosecutor's office.
Carbinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage
Police raided a forger’s workshop in Rome. They found dozens of pieces, including fake Picassos and Rembrandts
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Naveen Kishore/National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
The last of Bengal’s female impersonators
Derrick Adams Sweetening the Pot, 2024
Courtesy the artist and Gagosian
In Derrick Adams’ paintings, Black history collides joyfully with the present
Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land The Curve, Barbican January 2025
Jo Underhill/Barbican
The artist giving centuries-old scroll painting a feminist twist
Starling Murmuration, Lough Ennell
James Crombie
‘You get one split second’: The story behind a viral bird photo
Kwai Chung
Austin Bell
From rooftops to remote islands, this city has basketball courts everywhere
Holly Herndon and Matt Dryhurst
Courtesy Christie's Images LTD 2025
Thousands call on Christie’s to cancel AI art auction in open letter
Louay Kayyali’s Then What?? (1965)
Courtesy Sotheby's
Records set for Arab artists at Sotheby’s debut Saudi Arabia auction
An undiscovered painting by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) of a mystery woman, hidden for more than a century beneath one of the very first paintings from the artist’s famous Blue Period, has been revealed by conservators at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, using specialist imaging technology to examine the work for the first time.
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Mysterious portrait of a woman revealed beneath Picasso painting
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - AUGUST 03: (L - R) Danielle, Minji, Hyein, Hanni and Haerin of NewJeans perform in concert during Lollapalooza at Grant Park on August 03, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Gary Miller/FilmMagic)
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K-pop act NewJeans unveils new identity — and a new name
The imagery of a portrait using non-invasive analytical techniques, including a multi-modal scanner, developed by the APAC Labs of the Cyprus Institute in collaboration with the Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France (C2RMF), hangs at the Limassol Municipal Arts Center in Limassol, Cyprus January 30, 2025. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou
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‘Uncovering a puzzle’: Experts discover portrait hidden beneath Titian masterpiece
Interior of the Royal Ballet School in London, England.
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Britain’s top ballet school settles body-shaming lawsuit with former student