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AnecdotesRussian gallery directors appeal after unfair prosecution

In 2005, two art museum directors appealed to the European Court of Human Rights after they were prosecuted when vandals...

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AnecdotesBanksy's Pranks

Banksy.. is both a lefty and a tweaker of lefty pieties. At a London antiwar demonstration in 2003, he distributed signs...

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AnecdotesBanksy at the Tate

In October 2003, Britain`s "most celebrated graffiti artist" Banksy, famed for spray-painting subversive images (riot...

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QuotesQuote about Art, Indifference and Museums

`Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.` -...

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AnecdotesArtist`s Solution

At the notorious "Sensation" exhibition in 1997, Marcus Harvey`s controversial painting "Myra" (an enormous...

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AnecdotesMona Lisa

One day in 1911, an Italian house painter named Vincenzo Peruggia, angered by incessant French taunts (he was often called...

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ImagesOffice Illusions: Target

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AnecdotesLeonardo DiCaprio: Christening

Leonardo DiCaprio was christened in honor of Leonardo DaVinci - after his pregnant mother experienced a sudden kick...

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AnecdotesZanuck & the Louvre

Twentieth Century-Fox founder Darryl F. Zanuck was not noted for his sophistication. He once visited the Louvre - and...

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