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Bristol, UK, Statue Of Protester Jen Reid Removed After One Day

Bristol, UK, Statue Of Protester Jen Reid Removed After One Day

The statue of Black protester Jen Reid has been removed a day after being erected in Bristol, U.K., the BBC reported. The sculpture was an unauthorized replacement for the statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, Black Lives Matter protesters removed Colston’s statue and toppled it into Bristol […]

4y ago

Betsy James Wyeth Dead, Famed Art Family Matriarch Dies At Home At Age 98

Betsy James Wyeth Dead, Famed Art Family Matriarch Dies At Home At Age 98

Betsy James Wyeth, the widow, business manager, and lifelong muse of the late American painter, Andrew Wyeth, has died. The art family matriarch, who is mother to contemporary realist painter Jamie Wyeth and older son, Nicholas, had been in declining health for several years before she passed at home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, at age […]

4y ago

A Thief Was Able To Steal A Priceless Vincent Van Gogh Painting With A Few Swings Of A Sledgehammer

A Thief Was Able To Steal A Priceless Vincent Van Gogh Painting With A Few Swings Of A Sledgehammer

A thief was able to walk out of a Netherlands museum with a priceless Vincent Van Gogh painting using a few swings of a sledgehammer, NBC News reports. Museum officials believe that the thief had targeted the specific painting for the theft. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, on March 30 the Sanger Museum in […]

4y ago

Vincent Van Gogh Painting ‘Parsonage Garden’ Stolen From Amsterdam-Area Museum Shuttered By Coronavirus

Vincent Van Gogh Painting ‘Parsonage Garden’ Stolen From Amsterdam-Area Museum Shuttered By Coronavirus

A thief appears to have taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to steal a work of art from a shuttered Amsterdam-area museum, NBC News reports. The Singer Museum in Laren, near Amsterdam, is, like so many other museums and public places around the world, currently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, having locked its doors […]

4y ago

A Stolen Painting Was Found In Wall Of The Museum It Was Taken From 23 Years Ago

A Stolen Painting Was Found In Wall Of The Museum It Was Taken From 23 Years Ago

Art lovers around the world are rejoicing after a painting that vanished over two decades ago in an unsolved crime was found in the most unlikely of places: the museum where it had previously been kept. According to Science Alert, the painting was Austrian artist Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady, and it was found […]

4y ago

Lost Florentine Masterpiece Found In Elderly Woman’s Kitchen Sells For $26.6 Million

Lost Florentine Masterpiece Found In Elderly Woman’s Kitchen Sells For $26.6 Million

A lost masterpiece of pre-Renaissance art, found in an elderly French woman’s kitchen, has sold for $26.6 million, The Associated Press reports. The painting had expected to sell for $6-7 million. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the painting, Christ Mocked, had been considered lost to the mists of history. The piece was part of […]

5y ago

Lost Florentine Masterpiece Worth $6.59 Million Found In Elderly Woman’s Kitchen

Lost Florentine Masterpiece Worth $6.59 Million Found In Elderly Woman’s Kitchen

A lost masterpiece by 13th-century Florentine painter Cimabue has been found in the kitchen of an elderly French woman who had no idea of its value, CNN reports. The painting is expected to fetch €6 million (approximately $6.59 million) at auction. Cimabue is the pseudonym of artist Cenni di Pepo, who was born in Florence, […]

5y ago

Facebook Disables Account Of Artist Who Created ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats On KKK Hoods, Swastikas

Facebook Disables Account Of Artist Who Created ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats On KKK Hoods, Swastikas

A Baltimore artist says her Facebook account was disabled after she posted pictures of her latest project, which consists in part of “Make America Great Again” hats reconstructed as KKK hoods and swastikas, San Francisco’s KTVU reports. The hats, with white lettering on a red background, and bearing Trump’s campaign slogan, have become something of […]

5y ago

Here’s What Has Been Destroyed In The Notre Dame Fire, Plus What Parts Whose Fate Is Unknown

Here’s What Has Been Destroyed In The Notre Dame Fire, Plus What Parts Whose Fate Is Unknown

The Notre Dame Cathedral fire on Monday destroyed several of the church’s iconic elements, both inside and outside, and threatened the very existence of the church itself. And though it appears, for now, as if the structure proper is going to survive, Paris officials, joined by art historians and Catholic Church leaders, are assessing the […]

5y ago

Original Woodstock Organizer Will Be Bringing Back The Event This Summer

Original Woodstock Organizer Will Be Bringing Back The Event This Summer

It’s been 50 years since an estimated 400,000 people gathered together in Bethel, New York, to attend the original Woodstock Music & Art Fair where they listened to music and pushed peace. That’s the hope for this year’s celebratory event, too, said organizer Michael Lang who also helped create the first Woodstock. According to National […]

5y ago

Color Expert Weighs In On The Process Of Crafting High Quality Oil Paint

Color Expert Weighs In On The Process Of Crafting High Quality Oil Paint

According to Daily History, oil paints became popular among the artist crowd after early fifteenth century artists outside of the Italian peninsula became tired of the limitations to coloristic effects that come with the use of then widely popular egg tempera paints. The Spruce Crafts listed oil paints as some of the best paints in […]

6y ago

London Artist ‘Fixes’ Racist Graffiti To Become Something Much More Beautiful

London Artist ‘Fixes’ Racist Graffiti To Become Something Much More Beautiful

The incidence rate of hate crimes occurring in the United Kingdom is on the rise — much like it is in the United States — with the total number of hate crime-related activity doubling in the past five years alone. Over the course of the past two years of data, the number of hate crime […]

6y ago

‘Indiana Jones Of Art’ Finds A Priceless 1,600-Year-Old Stolen Mosaic

‘Indiana Jones Of Art’ Finds A Priceless 1,600-Year-Old Stolen Mosaic

An art historian and appraiser who has earned the nickname “The Indiana Jones of Art” has struck again, tracking down a 16-century-old Cypriot mosaic that depicts early Christian history, BBC News is reporting. You may be familiar with Indiana Jones, the swashbuckling archaeologist who battles Nazis to keep their hands off priceless archaeological artifacts, and […]

6y ago

An Artist’s One-A-Day Regimen Of Drugs And A Self-Portrait

An Artist’s One-A-Day Regimen Of Drugs And A Self-Portrait

According to Insider, prolific artist Bryan Lewis Saunders set out to expand his self-knowledge and understanding through art. To do this, he created the art series, “Under The Influence,” which includes a multitude of self-portraits, which he painted at least once a day starting in March of 1995, while under the influence of every different […]

6y ago

Donald Trump Has Portrait On White House Wall Of Himself Hanging Out With Past Republican Presidents

Donald Trump Has Portrait On White House Wall Of Himself Hanging Out With Past Republican Presidents

Donald Trump had a lot to say in his interview with 60 Minutes that aired on Sunday night. One thing he didn’t talk about, however, was the painting that savvy viewers noticed was hanging on a White House wall. The painting, titled The Republican Club, depicts nine Republican presidents, including Trump, sitting or standing around […]

6y ago

Robbie Conal Is Taking His Political Poster Art To The Street

Robbie Conal Is Taking His Political Poster Art To The Street

Robbie Conal is 74-years-old now, but he is as prolific as ever. Considered by many to be the godfather of American political poster art, Conal has been speaking his mind through his artwork for almost 40 years. Recently, Conal and his small band of guerrilla artists took to the streets of Los Angeles well after […]

6y ago

Jessie Kwasney’s ‘Details Of Heroes’ Exhibit Shows Human Face Of PTSD

Jessie Kwasney’s ‘Details Of Heroes’ Exhibit Shows Human Face Of PTSD

Jessie Kwasney’s photographic exhibit, The Details of Heroes, is currently on display at the UC Gallery at the University of Montana at Missoula, according to The Missoulan, and it is a revelation of an artist’s soul that is not often seen. That’s because Kwasney, a 31-year-old ceramicist and photographer who served two tours in Iraq, […]

6y ago

The Woman Who Purchased The Banksy Painting That Shredded Itself Plans To Keep It

The Woman Who Purchased The Banksy Painting That Shredded Itself Plans To Keep It

The woman who purchased the Banksy painting that shredded itself at the very second that the auctioneer hit the gavel says that she plans to keep it — or what’s left of it. In fact, she may wind up slightly richer for the whole experience. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Sotheby’s in London auctioned […]

6y ago

After Being Auctioned For $1 Million, A Banksy Painting ‘Self Destructed’ Using A Hidden Shredder

After Being Auctioned For $1 Million, A Banksy Painting ‘Self Destructed’ Using A Hidden Shredder

Banksy’s iconic “Girl with a Balloon” painting immediately self-destructed on Friday at a Sotheby’s auction after it was sold for the equivalent of $1.2 million. The painting made history as Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art, confirmed that it was the first time that an artwork “spontaneously shredded” at an auction. The artist is […]

6y ago

Houston Health Museum’s Skin Suits Can Be Tried On By Guests

Houston Health Museum’s Skin Suits Can Be Tried On By Guests

The John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science in Houston has a new exhibit that might tickle the fancy of those who don’t consider themselves traditional museum-goers. As reported by ABC 13, visitors to the museum can try on skin suits molded from the bodies of real people by artist Sarah Sitkin. The […]

6y ago

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