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A promotional balloon — styled after the red, heart-shaped balloon in one of Banksy's famous artworks — floats at the grand opening of The Art Of Banksy show in Miami.

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This Art Show Doesn't Have Banksy's Blessings — His Fans Don't Seem To Mind

4:53pm December 06, 2018

by Greg Allen

"I know he doesn't like the show," says organizer Steve Lazarides, who worked for Banksy for years before the two had a falling out. Banksy's management company says legal proceedings are underway.

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Ownership of "Statue of a Victorious Youth," a bronze sculpture of ancient Greek origin, is being disputed. An American museum is trying to keep it.

Italian Court Orders Getty Museum To Return Statue To Italy

5:07pm December 05, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles says it has no intention of returning the "Statue of a Victorious Youth," a piece of art from ancient Greece discovered off the Italian coast in the 1960s.

Tom Schiller plays artist Kurt Barnert, a character modeled on Gerhard Richter, in this old-fashioned melodrama from writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

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'Never Look Away' Glibly Examines The Intersection Of Art And Autobiography

5:00pm November 29, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

Tom Schilling plays a German painter clearly modeled on Gerhard Richter in this melodrama about the lingering costs of war and the ways they inform both art and artist.

An image shows the paintings stolen from the Netherlands' Kunsthal museum in 2012 — including Picasso's Tête d'Arlequin at bottom right. Two Dutch citizens claim to have found the missing Picasso work, Romanian prosecutors said on Sunday.

Six Years After Museum Heist, Missing Picasso Possibly Found In Romania

4:42pm November 18, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

Thieves entered the Netherlands' Kunsthal in 2012 and made off with seven paintings, allegedly later burned in an oven by the ringleader's mother. Now the story has taken another strange turn.

Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo (center) cleans a spill on the floor during the pre-inauguration of her peace monument titled Fragmentos (Fragments), for which she used metal melted-down from the weapons handed over by FARC guerrilla fighters to make the

In Colombia, Artist Renders Tons Of Rebel Guns Into Floor Tiles

4:53pm November 06, 2018

by John Otis

Under Colombia's peace deal, FARC guerrillas turned over their weapons to the United Nations. Now many of them lie in the ground of a Bogotá museum.

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An Intimate Pontormo Show Outshines The Met's Big Delacroix Retrospective

2:20pm November 05, 2018

by Lloyd Schwartz

In the age of blockbuster art exhibitions, a small show sometimes makes just as big an impression as a large one. That's what happened to critic Lloyd Schwartz on a recent trip to New York.

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Abstract artist Larry Poons is enjoying a late-career resurgence of interest, decades after his optical dot paintings attracted acclaim in the 1960s. Poons is a key figure in the documentary The Price of Everything.

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New Documentary Paints A Picture Of The Contemporary Art Market Run Amok

5:41pm November 04, 2018

by Michel Martin

HBO's The Price of Everything calls into question the current price explosion and commodification of modern art "that's fascinating, but it's also terrifying," says director Nathaniel Kahn.

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Renaissance Reminiscent Paintings Celebrate Ferguson, St. Louis Residents

5:35pm November 03, 2018

by Jeremy D. Goodwin

Kehinde Wiley paints black men and women in poses once associated with white aristocrats. He says he's claiming space in the art museum for people who have not always felt welcome there.

Edmond de Belamy, created using artificial intelligence, will be auctioned at Christie's on Thursday.

A.I. Produced 'Portrait' Will Go Up For Auction At Christie's

10:08pm October 22, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

The print, called Edmond de Belamy, is a blurry depiction of what could be a "a man of the church" floating within a gilt frame. In place of the artist's signature is a math equation.

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This Portrait Is Reminiscent Of A Rembrandt But Artificial Intelligence Created It

6:06pm October 22, 2018

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with art appraiser Erin-Marie Wallace about how a piece of art that was created by an algorithm, but looks like a Rembrandt can be appraised.

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