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In 2010, French burglar Vjeran Tomic swiped five of the world's most renowned paintings in Paris. Now, after serving an eight-year sentence, he recounts the story in his own words in a new Netflix documentary. Netflix

Meet Vjeran Tomic, the world’s most notorious paintings bandit

In 2010, the French burglar swiped five of the world's most renowned paintings in Paris. Now, after serving an eight-year sentence, he recounts the story in his own words in a new Netflix documentary.

Ibrahim Haj Abdi 24, Nov 2023
A restored portrait of Nicholas Sursock (1930) by Dutch-French painter Kees van Dong during the reopening of the Sursock Museum in Beirut on May 26, 2023. AFP

The Sursocks of Beirut: A wasted fortune and a museum rebuilt from a deadly port blast

The Sursock family found wealth in war and marriage, but later generations squandered it. Yet one thing endures: the Sursock Museum, now re-open three years after it was hit by the Beirut port blast.

Mohamed abi Samra 11, Sep 2023
National Gallery

Saint Francis's enduring appeal on display at National Gallery

The medieval Church produced a superstar. It is no surprise, therefore, there were already some 20,000 images of Saint Francis in existence within 100 years of his death

Bryn Haworth 01, Jul 2023
Pablo Picasso Shutterstock

The problem with Picasso

If his treatment of women or his cultural appropriations mean that we can't bear the sight of him, that implies something far more fatal to his continuing hold on our esteem: obsolescence

Bryn Haworth 05, Jun 2023
Gallery assistants pose with artworks entitled 'Mnemosyne' (L), 'The Blessed Damozel' (C) and 'Proserpine' by English artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, during a photocall at Tate Britain in London on April 4, 2023. AFP

Why a new Rossetti exhibition is a must for depressed coiffeurs

While one sad beauty with a mass of hair might enchant us, the collection is more like a despondency of depressed Victorian women

Bryn Haworth 20, May 2023
Donatello’s sculpture The Ascension With Christ Giving The Keys To St Peter forms part of the exhibition PA

Donatello graces London’s V&A

An exploration of the life and work of the iconic Italian sculptor as the V&A hosts the UK's first major Donatello exhibition

Farouk Yousif 12, Apr 2023
Akhenaten Museum in Minya governorate, south of Cairo, Egypt. Photo courtesy of Ahmed Hemeida

Akhenaten Celebrated in Egypt’s Minya

Minya, a Middle Egyptian governorate located south of Cairo on the western bank of the Nile, has history that dates back to the Predynastic Period (before 3100 BC). It will celebrate the opening…

Salwa Samir 08, Apr 2022
The Arab American National Museum

Celebrating Arab Americans Through Art

Last week, The Arab American National Museum (AANM), in Dearborn, Michigan, the home of the largest Arabic and Islamic communities in the US, hosted the annual Arab Film Festival, as part of other…

Mohammad Ali Salih 03, Dec 2021
Ottoman ceramic wall panels from Turkey around 16th-19th centuries on display in the Department of Islamic Arts – The Louvre Museum. (Jean-Pierre Dalbéra via Flickr)

A New Perspective on Islamic Cultures

There is always a strong reason to come and see the biggest and the most beautiful museum in the world, The Louvre. Formerly a palace for France’s royalty located in the heart of Paris, the museum…

Khaled Saad Zaghloul 25, Nov 2021
A painting of Egyptian renowned writer Naguib Mahfouz that was displayed in an exhibition in Cairo this week. (Supplied)

Mahfouz Finally Meets Márquez at Anniversary Exhibition

After the great Egyptian writer late Naguib Mahfouz was subjected to a failed assassination attempt in 1995, the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez sent him a letter in which he said, "The sun's…

Menna A. Farouk 03, Sep 2021
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