Why does art matter? Banksy asks, offering originals for the right answer
British street artist Banksy is selling a Union Jack stab vest, riot helmet ‘disco balls’ and a ‘designer handbag’ made from a brick to randomly...
Swedish Academy defends choice for 2019 Nobel literature prize
The Swedish Academy has defended its decision to award the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke, saying he had made provocative...
‘Invisible’ Bosnians born of wartime rape use art to find their voice
Ajna Jusic, the first baby to be registered as born of rape during the Bosnian war in the 1990s, describes to a packed Sarajevo theatre...
Koons unveils giant ‘Bouquet of Tulips’ tribute to victims of 2015 Paris attacks
American artist Jeff Koons unveiled in Paris on Friday his sculpture Bouquet of Tulips, a tribute to the victims of militant Islamist attacks in the...
Paris mounts first Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition in three decades
An exhibition showing the works of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, famed for his portrayal of Paris’s cafes, brothels and cabarets at the end of the...
Banksy’s chimp-depicting “Devolved Parliament” sells for over $12 million
A large Banksy painting depicting primates sitting in Britain’s parliament sold for more than $12 million on Thursday, a record price at auction for a...
Gauguin, Gauguin, Gone – Tahiti painting to be auctioned in Paris in December
A painting by French post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin is to be sold in Paris in December in an auction expected to fetch at least 5...
Banksy takes aim at British life in suburban ‘homewares’ shop
Banksy has set up a “homewares” store in a south London suburb, displaying politically-provocative pieces such as the Union Jack stab-proof vest he designed for...
Monkey business? Banksy’s primates in parliament up for auction
A Banksy painting of primates sitting in Britain’s parliament goes under the hammer next week and is expected to fetch up to $2.5 million....
Court jails man who walked out of Moscow art gallery with million-dollar masterpiece
A man who stole a Russian masterpiece worth about $1 million from a Moscow art gallery in broad daylight in January was sentenced to three...
