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The Dark Years - an exhibition in Berlin of art during the years of the Second World War

“The Black Rooms” is a tense painting by Karl Hofer from 1943 and it sets the tone of a new exhibition in Berlin which traces art under the National

France

Paris attacks prompt artists to pick up their pencils

Much has been written already about the consequences and implications of last Friday’s attacks in Paris. However, some of the most insightful comment

USA

Modigliani nude fetches record $170 million at auction

A nude painting by Amedeo Modigliani has just fetched a record price of $170.4 million for the Italian artist – and achieved the second highest price

Austria

Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs has died aged 85

Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs has died aged 85. He was an internationally recognised painter, sculptor, poet and music composer who co-founded the

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Can art feeds the hungry

Various artists and designers build sculptures out of canned foods for the annual “Canstruction” competition. At a later date, it will be donated in

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Sydney coastline hosts massive outdoor sculpture exhibit

Every year, Sydney’s coastline is transformed into a public art gallery for a couple of weeks thanks to the ‘Sculpture by the Sea’ exhibition

Italy

Trevi fountain's waters flow again as landmark re-opens after facelift

One of Rome’s most famous landmarks the Trevi fountain has finished getting a facelift. The romantic must-visit site had been in need of a makeover

World

Coppola, Asturias honours cinema's great 'outsider'

With Francis Ford Coppola talks in Oviedo, Spain, where the now legendary film maker received the Princess of Asturias Arts Award, the

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MoMA: Joaquín Torres García retrospective

A retrospective exhibition on the works of Joaquín Torres García has opened in MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art) in New York. Joaquín Torres García was

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Sex in the city at Paris' Musée d'Orsay

One of the world’s most respected museums has become the first to stage an exhibition on prostitution. ‘Splendour and Misery. Pictures of

Egypt

Egyptian novelist Gamal Al Ghitani dies

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The art of business at Lyon's Docks Art Fair

Art is also business – the fifth edition of the Docks Art Fair in Lyon brought together 20 French and international galleries...

France

Les Rencontres d'Arles: pictures from the edge

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Photorealistic ballpoint pen art from Nigeria

Twenty-two-year old Oscar Ukonu is putting the finishing touches to his latest piece of work, a portrait of US President Barack Obama. The young

World News

International landscape photo contest 2015 winners announced

More than 2,600 entrants submitted entries to the International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. Organisers say the best 101 images

USA

Happy Birthday Uncle Sam

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Fashion's 'enfant terrible' Jean Paul Gaultier speaks to Euronews

USA

Burning Man 2015: what we are missing, and how we can catch up

No, we are not at Burning Man, and if you’re reading this then you probably aren’t either as there’s virtually no mobile network or Internet at Black

Taiwan

Boy trips, falls, and punches hole into 17th century painting

A 12-year-old boy got an unusually close look at a 17th century floral still-life when he stumbled and punched a hole into the painting, estimated to be worth 1.3 million euros.

Taiwan

Boy punches hole in 17th century Italian masterpiece