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Reputed Donatello bust taken into hiding by Slovak government

The Art Newspaper

An authentic Donatello? Not everyone, however, is convinced of the bust’s authenticity. Panis explains that when he was director, the SNM was planning to exhibit the bust and publish a monograph on the work once “its authenticity had been confirmed and the documentation had been finalised”.

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How Gretchen Andrew’s AI art is revealing the societal scars of ‘facetuning’

The Art Newspaper

I wanted to create a single portrait where our authentic selves and the ‘ideal’ self messily coexist,” Andrew says. “I The resulting works are unsettling, with the robotic scribbles cutting lines through the women’s bodies and making their smiling faces unrecognisable—but that discomfort is the point.

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With the help of conservators, one of Van Gogh’s finest Arles landscapes will be heading to Japan

The Art Newspaper

To contact Martin Bailey, please email vangogh@theartnewspaper.com Please note that he does not undertake authentications.

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Missing Tom Thomson painting at centre of $8m lawsuit returned to owner

The Art Newspaper

In 2013 it was sent to the Canadian Conservation Institute at the National Gallery of Canada for analysis and authentication, where it was attributed to Thomson. Its authenticity, Murray tells The Art Newspaper from his home on Kauai, was also confirmed by the late Thomson expert, art scholar and curator Dennis Reid.

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Archaeologists confirm that limestone 'Venus of Kołobrzeg' found by a farmer in Poland is 6,000 years old

The Art Newspaper

The figure was found in December 2022 by a farmer in a village near the Parsęta river, close to Kołobrzeg. We needed a lot of time to confirm the authenticity of the figurine and the place of its discovery,” said Marcin Krzepkowski, an archaeologist from the Relicta Foundation who participated in the research on the figurine.

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