Price of rediscovered Emily Carr painting bought for $50 surges nearly 500,000% at Toronto auction
The previously unheralded Emily Carr painting Masset, QCI (1912), which an eagle-eyed dealer bought for $50 at a New York ...
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Painting by the AI robot Ai-Da sells for more than $1m at Sotheby’s
A painting by Ai-Da Robot, a humanoid robot powered using artificial intelligence (AI), sold for more than $1m (including auction ...
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Painting by AI robot Ai-Da could bring more than $120,000 at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s will sell its first work credited to a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence (AI) later this month. A.I. God. ...
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Artist sues US city that cancelled her residency over a pro-Palestine painting
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado has filed a lawsuit against the city of Vail on behalf of ...
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Painting protests cause ‘enormous stress for colleagues at every level’, say UK’s national museum directors
National museum directors in the UK have issued an open letter saying that protests targeting their galleries and works “have ...
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Peter Doig awarded $2.5m in sanctions following legal saga over prison painting
The artist Peter Doig has been awarded $2.5m in a strange legal saga that began in 2013, when the gallerist ...
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Was it a Nazi forced sale? And is the painting now worth $250m?
Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting in Tokyo is at the centre of a legal claim 35 years after it was sold ...
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Philip Pearlstein, whose nude portraits helped revive figurative painting, has died, aged 98
Philip Pearlstein, the artist whose realistic, nude portraits breathed new life into figurative painting amidst the rise of non-representational abstraction, ...
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Seeking return of Van Gogh Sunflowers painting sold under Nazi coercion, German Jewish banker’s heirs sue Japanese insurance company
The descendants of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a German Jewish banker in Berlin who liquidated his large art collection to avoid ...
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x-ray of still life painting reveals hidden portrait
What may be Paul Cézanne’s earliest dated portrait has been discovered beneath the layers of paint that make up Still ...
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