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Banksy's 'Migrant Child' Gets a Lift

The 6-year-old work location along a Venice canal is taken down for restoration, future public display

(Newser) - Art restorers have removed a deteriorating piece of graffiti by the street artist Banksy titled "The Migrant Child" from the side of a building overlooking a Venetian canal to preserve the work for future public display, officials said Thursday. The removal from the wall of Palazzo San Pantalon was...

That $6.2M Banana? Someone Just Ate It. Again.

And nobody seems too upset

(Newser) - Well, when you duct-tape a perishable fruit to a wall, call it art, and sell it for $6.2 million, there is just bound to be a hungry museum-goer around. When last we checked in on the previous iteration of the banana known as The Comedian by Italian artist and...

Lorde Includes NSFW Image of Herself in New Album

Singer's new release raises eyebrows with pic of her nude crotch under see-through pants in insert

(Newser) - Lorde's latest album, Virgin, dropped on Friday, featuring 11 tracks and a little something extra that has some fans in a tizzy. USA Today reports that the Grammy-winning artist, known as Ella Yelich-O'Connor in her prefame life, included an eight-page picture booklet with the vinyl version of the...

Tourist Damages Painting in Quest for Jokey Photo

Italy's Uffizi Gallery says damage is minor, but it's going to beef up visitor rules

(Newser) - It's the latest entry in the annals of bumbling tourists damaging works of art. A man at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, tore an 18th-century portrait while posing for a photo, reports the Times of London. The incident took place Saturday, when the visitor tried to mimic...

On Display: A 200-Year-Old Condom With Naughty Art

Prophylactic decorated with erotic art is at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum

(Newser) - The Netherlands' national museum has a new object on display that merges art with Amsterdam's infamous Red Light District: a nearly 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with erotic art. The Rijksmuseum said in a statement that the playful prophylactic, believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep's appendix, "...

Sleuths Figure Out Where Latest Banksy Piece Is

Mural of lighthouse is thought to be along the Rue Felix Fregier in the French city of Marseille

(Newser) - "He's back!" one enthusiast cheered on Thursday after Banksy posted what appeared to be his latest artwork—a wall mural depicting a lighthouse on a nondescript beige wall, along with the words, "I want to be what you saw in me" (check it out here )....

A Gasp in the Art World: Tate Modern Gets This Painting

The Joan Mitchell masterpiece 'Iva' is described as one of the most important works it has received

(Newser) - Britain's Tate Modern art museum on Thursday revealed a "transformational" donation that its director calls "one of the most important" works it has received, reports the BBC . "Iva," a 20-foot-long triptych by American abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell, was gifted to the museum by philanthropists Jorge...

Woman's $12 Auction Find May Be a Renoir

Pennsylvania's Heidi Markow is waiting for definitive verification on the charcoal drawing

(Newser) - A "seemingly routine" purchase of a small piece of art at a Pennsylvania sale earlier this year set Heidi Markow back just 12 bucks, but it now looks like it was a dozen dollars very well spent. The antiques store dealer says she was checking out an auction with...

Boston's Stolen Masterpieces May Not Have Gone Far

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's security director appeals for tips 35 years after heist

(Newser) - The empty frames hanging on the walls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston aren't a sign of work in progress. They're a symbol of the treasures lost and those that, 35 years later, might still be returned. At 1:24am on March 18, 1990, two thieves...

After New Yorker Party, Art Critic Gets a Pink Slip: Report

Jackson Arn, who joined mag in 2023, is accused of making 'inappropriate overtures' at centennial fete

(Newser) - The New Yorker is now down one staffer, not even two years after he joined its masthead, and just one month after a work party that apparently went awry for him. Sources, including one eyewitness, tell the New York Times that Jackson Arn was in attendance at the magazine's...

UK Woman on Stolen 16th-Century Painting: Sorry, It's Mine

Barbara de Dozsa says ex-husband bought Solario's 'Madonna and Child' in good faith in '70s

(Newser) - A British woman won't give up a 16th-century Italian piece of art that she says her late husband bought in the early '70s—and that authorities now say is stolen. Per the Guardian , a "Madonna and Child" painting by Antonio Solario had been housed at Italy's...

Birkenstock: Our Sandals Are Art. German Court: Nope

Shoemaker loses court case claiming that its shoes 'are copyright-protected works of applied art'

(Newser) - Birkenstocks: ubiquitous in summer, comfy, and very German. Sometimes they look chic and sometimes shabby. But can these sandals be considered art? That's the question Germany's Federal Court of Justice wrestled with Thursday, and it ruled they're just comfy footwear, reports the AP . Birkenstock—which is headquartered...

Shanties on Ice Host a Cold Art Event
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Jan 18, 2025 3:22 PM CST

Art Event on Lake Draws Cold Crowd

Thousands attend interactive event in Minnesota

(Newser) - Saturday was cold even for Minneapolis, but that didn't stop thousands of people from tromping out onto a frozen lake to immerse themselves in art, make new friends—and try their best to stay warm. The annual Art Shanty Projects drew crowds onto Lake Harriet for the first of...

Des Moines Reaches Deal With Artist to Ditch Installation

Series of walkways around pond was created by Mary Miss decades ago

(Newser) - A nationally known outdoor artwork will be removed from a park pond in Des Moines under a settlement announced Tuesday, ending a legal fight between the New York artist who created the work decades ago and a local art center that argued it couldn't afford needed repairs to the...

Runner's GPS Animation Stuns the Internet

Hat tip to Duncan McCabe, who ran 700 miles over 10 months to create a dancing stick man

(Newser) - An accountant by trade, Duncan McCabe puts his creative mind to work in other pursuits, like incredible stop-motion art using GPS, which has now taken the internet by storm. Over 10 months, McCabe recorded 120 of his runs through Toronto, Canada, on the fitness app Strava . His route stayed mostly...

Buyer Eats His $6.2M Banana Art
$6.2M
Duct-Taped
Banana Is
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Nov 29, 2024 7:00 AM CST

$6.2M Duct-Taped Banana Is Eaten

Justin Sun hands out bananas, duct tape to attendees at event in Hong Kong

(Newser) - He paid $6.2 million for a banana taped to a wall —and then he ate it. Justin Sun followed through on his promise to eat the banana at the center of Maurizio Cattelan's infamous "Comedian" artwork on Friday after logging the highest bid for the work...

Man Who Sold $6.2M Banana Makes $12 an Hour

''Do they not know what a banana is?' asks vendor who sold banana for 35 cents before auction

(Newser) - Last week, a duct-taped banana sold for $6.2 million , including Sotheby New York's auction fees. The New York Times reports that it tracked down the fruit vendor who sold it for 35 cents, and he began to cry when he was told the sale price. "I am...

She's Not an Art Historian. She's a 'Fruit Detective'

Smithsonian details the unusual niche of Isabella Dalla Ragione of Italy

(Newser) - Isabella Dalla Ragione spends a lot of time poring over Renaissance paintings and centuries-old frescoes. But as the Smithsonian explains, the 67-year-old isn't an art historian, exactly. Instead, she might be the world's most renowned "fruit detective." Dalla Ragione is an Italian agronomist who discovered that...

After Theft, Roaring Lion Is Back Home

Portrait of Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh that was stolen a few years ago is now back in Ottawa

(Newser) - A stolen portrait of Winston Churchill that was swapped with a forgery during the pandemic has returned to its rightful place, after two Ottawa police detectives traveled to Rome to retrieve it. Police said The Roaring Lion was stolen from the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa, sometime between Christmas...

Bust Made in That Botched Warhol Heist

23-year-old man arrested, but the stolen works haven't been found

(Newser) - Police arrested a 23-year-old man on Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in a botched art heist at a gallery in the southern Netherlands targeting four valuable Andy Warhol screen prints, reports the AP . The arrest came days after thieves blew open the door of an art gallery in the town...

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