Swiss-French artist Saype, 34, has utilized the green carpet of a Swiss park as a canvas to present a monumental fresco, the image of a crumpled plastic bottle, to highlight the growing pollution issue. This colossal artwork, created with chalk and charcoal,…
Well-known tattoo artist Henk Schiffmacher and his crew are offering a unique opportunity to wear Rembrandt van Rijn’s famous artworks as tattoos. A temporary tattoo studio in Amsterdam has been set up in the esteemed Dutch painter’s former home, now a museum.…
Next month, an illuminating letter revealing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s tumultuous love life will be auctioned at London’s Christie’s. Penned by the Austrian composer himself during the summer of 1782, the two-page letter illustrates Mozart’s plea for counsel from a close acquaintance following…
Two climate activists were taken into custody in Stockholm after defacing Claude Monet’s masterpiece with paint. The Swedish National Museum confirmed that the women had applied paint to the artwork before attaching it to its frame. “The Artist’s Garden at Giverny,” an…
In a Geneva museum, Hugh Nini and his spouse, Neal Treadwell, proudly stood before their amassed collection of photographs portraying men expressing love for one another. Among the group is a photo from the turn of the 20th century showcasing two men…
A precious Chinese Buddha statue, discovered in a French household and believed to be part of a long-lost set, is predicted to command a price of 1 million euros ($1.1 million) at a Paris auction slated for June 13. The auctioneer, Bonhams,…
Evelyne Axell, a Belgian artist with a radical yet fleeting career, exalted the feminine form through striking enamel illustrations steeped in psychedelic colour palettes. Her portraits presented naked women lounging in vivid fields of acid green or cerulean blue under vast skies.…
The Codex Sassoon, a Hebrew Bible dating back over a millennium, has set a new record as the priciest manuscript ever auctioned. Noted as “one of the most vital and unique texts in human history,” this ancient Bible holds significant historical and…
In an extraordinary stroke of luck, a pair of ceramic jars bought for just £20 ($25) at a London thrift store were sold for nearly 3,000 times their purchase price. This was after they were discovered to date back to the Qing…
A man has been implicated in the nearly two-decade-old case of the theft of the iconic ruby red slippers famously donned by Judy Garland in her role as Dorothy in the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz.” The slippers had been stolen…