Karan Singh

Heirs of an Austrian, Jewish gallery owner have filed a case against Sotheby’s for faking the provenance of a painting sold in 2019. The painting in question is St. Francis of Paola Holding a Rosary, Book, and Staff by Giovanni Battista…

Twenty tombs, over 2500 years old and from the Late Period, have been unearthed in Damietta, Egypt. Some of the tombs were encased in mudbrick linings, while others were simply put in a dirt pit. Early dating of the tombs suggests that…

Mark Pereira, the art dealer beloved in Trinidad & Tobago, was killed at his home on Monday during a robbery attempt. The tragic event occurred on the evening of December 19 at Pereira’s vacation beach house in Blanchissuese,…

The heirs of a Jewish art collector have sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, over an allegedly Nazi-looted Vincent van Gogh painting. The case was filed at a federal court in San…

American painter Philip Pearlstein, known for bringing realism to nude portraits in the 60s, died at age 98. He died at a New York hospital on Saturday due to natural causes. His death was confirmed by Betty Cuningham, the gallery which…

Fake blood was thrown at a Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Painting at Berlin Museum, while another attack at Musée d’Orsay was stopped by museum authorities. On Sunday, an unidentified individual threw fake blood at the Alte Nationalgalerie…

The LGBTQ+-centric Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York has added five new board members, including activist Raquel Willis. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art was established in 2016 with the aim of supporting LGBTQ+ artists or arts on…

A painting from the “Death and Disaster” collection by Andy Warhol will be auctioned at a Sotheby’s sale and could set a record for the artist. The painting, titled “White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times)” was made in 1963. It…

In the latest such incident, climate activists from Just Stop Oil tried gluing their heads and hands to the iconic Girl With a Pearl Earring painting by Vermeer. Last week, two activists, suspected to be from the climate action group…

Anonymous paintings damaged in the 2020 Beirut Explosion have been identified as the 17th work by artist Artemisia Gentileschi. The Sursock Palace was one of the many buildings damaged in the devastating explosion in Beirut in 2020. The…