This painting was displayed upside down for over 75 years. Finally, someone noticed
A famous artwork by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian has been displayed upside down for 75 years.
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Protests at art museums are nothing new. Here are 3 famous examples from history
Climate groups like Just Stop Oil are making headlines for targeting famous works of art in their fossil fuel protests. It's a tactic that other individuals and groups have used over the last century.
Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' painting in London
Members of a group that wants to halt new oil and gas projects threw soup over the masterpiece in London's National Gallery, but caused no discernible damage to the glass-covered painting.
Egyptians call for the return of the Rosetta Stone and other ancient artifacts
People calling for the repatriation of the ancient tablet and other items say the continued display of the objects in European institutions ignores a history of colonialist looting and exploitation.
Damien Hirst just burned 1,000 of his paintings and will soon burn thousands more
As part of his project "The Currency," Damien Hirst released a collection of 10,000 NFTs, each one corresponding to a physical artwork. Buyers could keep either the non-fungible token or the painting.
Art researchers discover one of Dutch artist Vermeer's paintings is not actually his
A team of curators, conservators and scientists from the National Gallery of Art say Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Flute was actually painted by someone else.
How one Filipino American artist influenced the work of a generation of others
When Carlos Villa asked about Filipino artists as a student he was told: there weren't any.
A kidnapped goddess returns home, after prosecutors expose art thieves
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Erin Thompson of CUNY about the recent seizure of ancient artifacts from the Met Museum, and the forthcoming repatriation of these objects to their home countries.
New York art museums must now disclose if a piece was stolen by Nazis
Ayesha Rascoe talks with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Andrea Bayer about a new New York law requiring museums to acknowledge if a work of art was stolen by the Nazi regime.
America, the (disappearing) beautiful
Robert Adams' obsession with the decay and beauty of the American landscape is on display at the National Gallery's exhibition "American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams."