On St. Patrick’s Day in 1990, security guards at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston made an error in judgement that set in motion a quite incredible chain of events.
There’s a good reason why restoring classical, iconic works of art should be left to the professionals.
Banksy has revealed his idea for a statue to replace the Edward Colston memorial torn down in Bristol earlier this week.
Feast your eyes on our picks from the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2020.
Few could have predicted that a small scooter produced in 1949 would become such a cultural phenomenon, and that history is once again being celebrated.
Explore a scan of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’, so detailed that you can see the individual brush strokes.
Sit back and take in some natural beauty with the winners of the 2020 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year competition.
Video footage has been released of a thief making off with an incredibly valuable painting by Vincent van Gogh.
Banksy has decided to work from home and no wall is safe, not even those of the bathroom.
When the coronavirus was at its peak in Italy in March, documentary photographer Alex Majoli went south to record the unexpected beauty and overwhelming terror of the pandemic.
Take a break from the stress of daily life to enjoy some stunning photos from the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year Competition 2020.
It’s Friday, so take a break and enjoy these epic pictures of the supermoon that lit up the night sky earlier this week.
Apple put Night Mode on the iPhone 11, 11 Max and 11 Pro Max to the test in a photography contest, and the winning snaps are gorgeous.
Take a break from staring out of the window aimlessly and enjoy some cracking photos from one of earth’s final, largely unexplored frontiers.
Take a break and gaze into the middle-distance with these superb winning shots from the 2019 ‘International Landscape Photographer of the Year’ competition.
It looks like not everybody in Bristol was impressed with Banksy’s surprise Valentine’s Day mural.
Bristol woke up on Valentine’s Day morning to an unusual gift from their resident street artist, Banksy.
The masses have spoken, and the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has crowned its ‘People’s Choice’ winner.
Armchair travel all over the globe with the winners of the 2019 Travel Photographer Of The Year competition.
Experts restored the middle panel of Hubert and Jan Van Eyck’s famous ‘Ghent Altarpiece’, and the results have received a very mixed reaction.
14 French museums have now placed in excess of 100 000 pieces of art on an online portal, in case you’re looking to impress your next dinner guests.
Seven-year-old Mikail Akar, a young painter from Germany, is selling his work for serious cash. To be fair, he has skills.
[imagesource: Lee Jin-man / AP] 2019, hey – what a year. As we begin to say farewell and good riddance to another year, South Africans find themselves staring down the barrel of a potentially dark ending to the year. One word – Eskom. Two words – load shedding. Three words – ma se … well, […]
Artist Maurizio Cattelan taped a banana to a wall. Then a performance artist came along and ate it, causing mass panic. This is art in 2019.
Next time you’re out shopping for fruit and veg, curse your parents for not letting you pursue that art degree. Your bananas could have been worth millions.
Take a break from the city and enjoy nature at its finest, captured in the winning photos from a British photography competition.
The spread, shot by celebrated fashion photographer Paolo Roversi, has been dubbed the ‘wokest’ Pirelli calendar to date.
How about some stunning photos of the natural world to brighten your day? Don’t mind if I do.
Master thieves have stolen priceless diamond jewellery from one of Europe’s largest treasure collections.
The winner of the first Africa Photo Awards comes from Pretoria and he had some pretty stiff competition to overcome.