Van Gogh a legend known to embrace modern paintings through expression and sentiment has inspired generations. An entrepreneur in Bosnia turned his dream into reality by recreating Vincent Van Gogh's starry night as a stunning natural park. Watch in for more details!

Van Gogh's starry night inspired park in Bosnia

Two climate activists threw soup at Monet's "Springtime" painting in the Beaux Arts Museum of Lyon. They claim the move is to highlight climate emergency. The activists belong to an environmental group that had already claimed responsibility for a similar action last month against the Mona Lisa painting in Paris.

Climate activists hurl soup at Monet's 'Springtime' painting in Lyon

Are paintings generated by artificial intelligence truly art? Can they be called the work of an artist and in doing so who is that artist? Well, it is definitely debatable but to understand it better let us take you to an exhibition where AI is that artist now. Kuwait's NOUA Arts and Culture Center is showcasing artworks created by AI. Each image has been generated by apps, digital painting machines and algorithms.

Kuwait: AI-generated paintings on display at exhibition

A new study published has made scientists rethink their previous notions regarding Egyptian artists and their paintings. Using modern, state-of-the-art portable imaging and chemical analysis techniques, the team took a fresh look at the paintings in the Valley of the Kings — a royal burial ground for pharaohs and other ancient Egyptian elites.

Hidden mysteries revealed in ancient Egyptian necropolis paintings. Details inside

British artist Damien Hirst has started burning his paintings in front of cameras. The burning is a part of his NFT project titled "The Currency." Molly Gambhir tells you more.

WION Fineprint | British artist burns paintings on camera

An alleged trickster was arrested in Brazil after a painting by one of Brazil’s most celebrated artists – the pioneering modernist Tarsila do Amaral – was found under his bed.

Brazil police find paintings worth £50 million under bed of trickster

Grieving families gathered at the inauguration of a COVID-19 victims memorial in Brazil's Rio De Janeiro, paying homage to their lost loved ones and demanding more help from municipal authorities to provide support for families impacted by the pandemic. Close to 400 people died in the 'mare favela' complex, a grouping of 16 favelas on the outskirts of Rio.

Covid victims memorial unveiled, tiles has paintings and name of victims on it

If anyone doesn't need reminding that banknotes are just worthless pieces of paper, it is Zimbabweans: over a decade ago, they watched as hyperinflation obliterated their currency and led to the printing of a 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note. Most bills ended up in the trash, but Zimbabwean visual artist Prudence Chimutuwah has found value in the unloved old bank notes -- by using them to make art.

Zimbabwe- based artist turns worthless old Mugabe-era banknotes into paintings

Netherland is a top tourist destination due to its art and culture. The government of the Netherlands is preparing to preserve its art and culture through a collective art centre and is planning to keep around 500,000 paintings under one Roof.

Netherland to preserve collective art memory through Dutch collection centre

In an art gallery filled with expressive paintings and vibrant colours lies a set of highly decorated coffins.

Art gallery doubles up as funeral home

Authorities in Greece have recovered a Picasso painting almost a decade after it was stolen in a heist at the National gallery. The painting, "Head of a Woman", which was gifted by Pablo Picasso himself to Greece in 1949, was recovered in Keratea from a 49-year-old builder who confessed to stealing the artworks in 2021.

Picasso's stolen painting recovered years after a heist

An Italy’s public broadcaster has lost several valuable pieces of art by prominent names and those were replaced by fakes. Works of artists such as Claude Monet and Amedeo Modigliani disappeared from the collection.

Caught!: 120 paintings of Monet, Modiglani went missing in 1970s, replaced with fakes

Paintings by Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte and Joan Miro as well as Banksy's tribute to Britain's National Health Service are among a selection of artworks going under the hammer this month at auction house Christie's 20th Century Art sale.

Picasso, Miro, Magritte as well as Banksy for sale at auction

A painting by Vincent Van Gogh is set to be shown to the public for the first after spending over a century in hiding. The painting of a Paris street was in the private collection of a French family for a long time.

A painting by Van Gogh will be displayed in public for the first time ever!

The event at a gallery in Tver, northwest of Moscow, brings together 10 copies of famous artworks that have been given a 3D tactile cover.

Russia: 3D paintings help blind people experience famous artworks

Empty chairs and empty tables is a sorry sight in usually thriving downtown Schoeneberg district. But one Berlin shut down by a coronavirus lockdown since November has transformed itself into an atelier for painters who can be seen putting colour on canvas by curious pedestrians or art lovers via an online livestream.

Show me the painting: Berlin cafe opens doors to artists

The "Mona Lisa" returned to its original room on Monday (October 7) at the Louvre Museum after two months of renovations in the hall where other Renaissance paintings are displayed.

Mona Lisa takes back its corner of the Louvre after renovation

The remaining paintings inside the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris are to be removed on Friday and stored, with fire service officials now satisfied the damaged structure is safe enough to go inside.

All Notre-Dame paintings to be removed as officials head inside

Five paintings attributed to Adolf Hitler will be auctioned off Saturday in the German city of Nuremberg, sparking anger that the Nazi memorabilia market is alive and well.

Germany: Five 'Hitler' paintings to go under hammer in Nuremberg

Hitler's watercolours with 'no artistic value' up for auction, German Police suspect forgeries

Akiane Kramarik, now 23, was a child prodigy who had finished painting Jesus when she was all of 8 without formal training. All she had was her visions.

Opinion: Akiane Kramarik, the woman artist whom God taught to paint

Wilson captured the colours, otherworldly mirages and spirit-crushing scale of the ice sheet in a series of watercolours

Paintings and photos of tragic Scott pole mission reunited

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