Painting

Painting

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  Critics divided over Duchess of Cambridge portrait

  The Duchess of Cambridge seems to like her first official portrait, which is lucky for the artist. Many critics don't. Paul Emsley's portrait of the ... 

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  Poland probes artist's claim he used Holocaust ash

  Polish prosecutors are investigating a Swedish artist's claim that he used the ashes of Holocaust victims to make a painting, an act that could carry ... 

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  Matisse painting stolen in 1987 recovered in UK

  A Henri Matisse painting stolen in 1987 from a Swedish museum by a thief wielding a sledgehammer has been recovered, an art specialist and a dealer ... 

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  Paintings outrage Islamic hard-liners in Pakistan

  Pakistan's leading arts college has pushed boundaries before in this conservative nation. But when a series of paintings depicting Muslim clerics in ... 

• Spanish botched fresco artist sells work on eBay

  A painting by the 80-year-old Spanish artist who became famous for her botched restoration of a Christ fresco in a small-town church has fetched ... 

• Man jailed for 2 years for defacing Rothko work

  A Polish man who defaced a Mark Rothko painting in London's Tate Modern gallery with black ink to promote an obscure artistic creed was sentenced ... 

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  Van Gogh dazzles at Netherlands' Kroeller-Mueller

  With the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam closed for renovations until April, the world's second-largest collection of the tortured Dutch master's work ... 

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  Banned 50 years ago, exhibition reopens in Moscow

  Better known in the West for promising to "bury" the capitalist world, Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev is also remembered by Russians for banning works ...