Russia’s Lukoil, Hungary’s MOL to sign dirty oil settlement: sources
Russian oil producer Lukoil and Hungarian energy company MOL are set to sign a settlement deal over contaminated oil during Russian President Putin’s visit to...
Long-lost Italian Renaissance painting sells for 24 million euros
A long-lost painting by 13th century Italian master Cimabue that was found in the kitchen of an elderly French woman was sold for 24 million...
At home of Mona Lisa, a retrospective on da Vinci’s life and work
France’s Louvre museum, home to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, is putting the final touches to one of the biggest ever exhibitions of the Italian...
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...