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Caravaggio masterpiece painted in Naples rather than Sicily, researchers suggest

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New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artists famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds

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Generative artists unite to back research into degenerative disease

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For the Cure3 exhibition at Bonhams, to raise money for research into Parkinsons disease, contributing artists Auriea Harvey and Michal Samyn talk about the cause

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A canny couple: Amsterdam’s former mayor and his wife identified as sitters in Frans Hals portraits

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Fresh research has revealed how the prestigious pair seized the moment to ensure their likeness was painted by the great Dutch artist

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‘We are not seeing the picture Rubens intended’: conservation reveals drastic changes made to acclaimed Judgement of Paris

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More than a year of meticulous research and work has led to the painting being glowingly restored—while revealing amendments by an unknown artist that “changed the narrative completely”

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Dana-Fiona Armour wins Sigg Art Prize for work that integrates artificial intelligence

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German artist-researcher receives €10,000 award for “Alvinella Ophia”, depicting a hybrid serpent creature’s exploration of a dystopian desert future

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New display at Tate Modern highlights role technology can play in expanding the scope of UK museum collections

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Works by four artists were created as part of the Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage research project

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The Week in Art podcast | The Mona Lisa’s endless, and problematic, allure; Judy Chicago; and New Objectivity

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We speak to the Leonardo da Vinci scholar, Martin Kemp, about the famous painting's potential move and the latest research on its background, to the US artist about her show at Serpentine North and to the director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna about Christian Schad’s 'Self-Portrait with Model' (1927)

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