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The 200-year-old pencil sketch of a view across Dover Harbour was discovered during a house clearanceA sketch by the English landscape artist John Constable that was found in a suitcase during a house clearance is to be sold at auction.The pencil sketc…
A tipster handed the work over to a Dutch art crimes detective who had been investigating the theft together with the police.
Exclusive: James Norbury says he is fulfilling pledge made after his debut book landed him a six-figure dealThe self-taught artist and writer James Norbury was living below the poverty line and volunteering with a cat charity when his self-published bo…
‘Indiana Jones of art world’ traces lost artwork seized from museum during Covid lockdownIt was a masterpiece with a curse: an early Van Gogh worth €3m-€6m (£2.6m-£5.2m) stolen from a Dutch museum three years ago was being passed around the criminal wo…
Initiative marks 300 years since death of Christopher Wren, many of whose churches were bombed in second world warIt became known as the second great fire of London, the worst night of the blitz in the British capital during the second world war. On th…
Two studies use facial recognition to analyse ‘old master’ painting and return opposite verdictsAuthenticating works of art is far from an exact science, but a madonna and child painting has sparked a furious row, being dubbed “the battle of the AIs”, …
The Dozaleh is one of the most important musical instruments in the Zagros region located in the west of Iran. The instrument has two sound tubes that are placed and tied together. The Dozaleh is played along with the Tombak or the Daf in wedding cere…
With powerfully alive new works at the Met and MoMA, the Iranian-born artist Nairy Baghramian embraces the canon, the better to take it apart.
Union anger after bosses’ pay at arts charity rises 170% while staff are offered just 4%Charity workers could walk out on strike for the first time in the 270-year history of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) as a simmering row over pay, alleged union-bu…
Paintings from a climb that retraced an 1800s route on western Europe’s highest mountain reveals the extent of the peak’s melting iceA British landscape artist who recreated a climb made 150 years ago to document the impact of the climate crisis on wes…