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Catarina Ykens II (1659-1737), Vanité au buste de femme, 1688 ? La Fondation Phoebus, Anvers (Belgique)

Catarina Ykens II (1659-1737), Vanitas Bust of a Lady, 1688 ? The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium

The Phoebus Foundation/Courtesy Musée Beaux-Arts Montréal

Were these?Renaissance masterpieces some of the world’s first ‘viral images’?

A new exhibition reveals what led to art and artists becoming popular at the height of the Renaissance.

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Banksy artwork in London, United Kingdom on August 13, 2024.

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Banksy London Zoo mural offers clue to why wild animals have been appearing all over city

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Almudena Romero

Instead of using film, this artist prints photos onto living plants

The original cover art for Rob Liefeld's New Mutants #98, which is expected to sell at an auction, is seen in this handout picture obtained by Reuters on August 7, 2024. Rob Liefeld/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

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Cover art showing Marvel hero Deadpool’s first appearance could sell for record $7.5 million

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Arxiu Fotogràfic?Oriol?Maspons

Why Ibiza is having a fashion moment once again

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Courtesy the artist/Yancey Richardson, New York

Why this photographer prefers to be called a ‘visual activist’

Intisar, a woman from the Jabal-Al Baba community, studied at a university to secure a better future for herself and her children. Photographer Petra Basnakova was let into the lives of Bedouin women in the El Bariyar desert and said that in time, "the (women) became like my sisters or mothers, and I found them to be very brave and strong... To me, they were like superheroes.”

Petra Basnakova

In photos: A photographer’s journey with the Palestinian Bedouin

Iván Argote’s “Dinosaur”

Courtesy the artist/The High Line

Giant pigeon to loom over New York

SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Brittany/Cynthia Daniel, 1994-98, ?Saban International/courtesy Everett Collection

Saban Int'l/Everett Collection

Francine Pascal, creator of beloved ‘Sweet Valley High’ books, dies at 92

A person walks through the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

Pamela Smith/AP

Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back

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Adam Busiakiewicz

Missing Henry VIII portrait spotted on X by eagle-eyed art historian

Yue Minjun in front of his inflatable art installation.

Giant pink man causes stir in small Welsh town

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Video Video shows King Charles’ portrait being vandalized by activists 0:51

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Video Why filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz unearthed her family’s secrets for ‘The Persian Version’ 11:41

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Video ‘Nothing to be embarrassed about’: How Asian Americans take pride in their identities 2:39

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Video Daredevil stunts and elaborate costumes: Inside the competitive world of lion dancing 2:51

"Under the Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty six views of Mount Fuji"

Katsushika Hokusai

Video The artisans keeping Japan’s woodblock print tradition alive 2:07

Video Takashi Murakami’s artistic influences 3:05

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Video Why is artist Yayoi Kusama obsessed with dots? 2:35

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Monique Forestier, Mr Mean Goo (31) at Diamond Falls, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia.

The photographer capturing climbers at dizzying heights

An ancient Roman mosaic from the floor of a villa has been uncovered in the waters off Naples.

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Stunning ancient Roman mosaic found submerged in the sea off Naples

Tara Shakti will be the first Malagasy artist among the Lunar Codex artists to have her work sent to the moon. Shakti hopes to empower other women through her vibrant paintings.

This Madagascan artist is sending her paintings to the moon

The Hugo Awards are a prestigious science fiction prize.

Hundreds of fraudulent votes cast in prestigious science fiction prize

The work of US artist Duane Hanson is on display at Gagosian gallery, in Paris on July 19, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images)

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What does a sweaty bodybuilder sitting in a window have to do with the Olympics?

Abdurrahman Danquah

‘Show the violated work’: Artist requests beheaded sculpture remains on view

Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

These Picasso pieces are on display in a ladies’ restroom inside a museum. Here’s why

Jesse Hunniford

A man’s world? Art exhibit about misogyny was only open to women — until a man complained