One afternoon not too long ago, a truck arrived on Park Avenue, delivering a batch of Impressionist paintings from a family’s home in the Hamptons to their apartment in Manhattan. With some but not all of the art unpacked, the lady and man of the house went out for the evening, leaving instructions for their [...]
The painting, which shows the sea lapping against a beach in pastel blues and greens, was valued at $1 million (euro0.69 million) at the time of its theft. Photo: EFE/Adam Cierezko.
A Monet painting that was cut from its frame 10 years ago at a museum in western Poland and replaced with a copy painted on [...]
Degas’ Les Choristes dates from around 1876
Police have arrested a man over the theft of an artwork by the Impressionist artist Edgar Degas from a museum in Marseilles.
Detail from Paul Cézanne’s The Boy in the Red Vest. The painting was stolen from the Bührle Collection in Zurich in 2008.
The last thing Bond villains and shadowy Mr Bigs want to worry about when buying a piece of art is where it came from. But for consumers who want to be as discerning in [...]
Before and after pictures of a Banksy artwork in Stoke Newington, London.
Council officials have painted over a Banksy graffito sketch from which a reworked version was derived as the cover artwork for the 2003 single Crazy Beat by the band Blur.
The artwork – a cartoon of the royal family waving from a balcony – had [...]
Artist Maurice Agis’s inflatable artwork Dreamspace. Two women died when it broke free from moorings at Chester-le-Street, County Durham, in July 2006.
The creator of an inflatable artwork that blew away, killing two women, won an appeal today against the £10,000 fine imposed on him for breaching health and safety regulations.
Artist Maurice Agis, 77, who was [...]
One of Banksy’s best-loved Bristol murals has been targeted by vandals as fans continue to arrive in their droves for his exhibition just up the road.
The Park Street image shows a naked man hanging out of a window as a suspicious husband peers out of the window into the distance as his scantily-clad wife stands [...]