Some are outraged that a recent Banksy artwork has been removed from its original location and brought inside a nearby youth club where people can see it for a fee, but the youthclub say that may have been Banksy’s original intention.
Art critics have been less than impressed by George W. Bush’s exhibition of his paintings of world leaders, but even more interesting is that the sharp-eyed Greg Allen noticed that the paintings have taken more than a little inspiration from the top images of the leaders on a Google Images search.
Italian police have recovered two paintings worth at least €10.6 million (£8.8 million), which they found hanging on the kitchen wall of a former factory worker in Turin.
It is pretty rare that new paintings from established artists surface, but Amsterdam’s Van Gogh museum has finally completed years of research to verify a newly discovered painting by the Dutch artist of Sunset at Montmajour.
Ignoring the numerous “Do Not Touch” signs at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence, an American tourist has accidentally broken the finger of a 14th century statue of the Virgin Mary believed to be the work of Giovanni d’Ambrogio.