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Owing to deterioration of the original 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark, it was replaced with a new specimen in 2006. It was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from 2007 to 2010. [1] It is considered an iconic work of British art in the 1990s, [2] and has become a symbol of Britart worldwide. [3]
Throughout the world, there are many works of art that have a contested provenance. This may be due to theft, lost documentation, looting, or just information lost to antiquity. In some cases, just the previous or current ownership of the work is disputed, but in other cases the authenticity of the work itself may be thought to be a forgery.
He was sentenced to nine months imprisonment in 1998, and the case raised issues of the ethics of art and the legal status of body parts used for medical research. Between 1991 and 1994 he persuaded a hospital worker to smuggle out the dissected remains of up to 40 bodies from the Royal College of Surgeons [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Casts of the body parts ...
Scandals in art occur when members of the public are shocked or offended by a work of art at the time of its first exhibition or publication, (e.g. visual art, literature, scenic design or music). The provocativeness of the scandal may relate to a controversial subject or style, being context-sensitive, according to the personality of the ...
The work was kept in Turner's gallery until 1837, when it was overpainted during a varnishing day at the British Institution. It subsequently gained notoriety, inspiring two derivative paintings and two engravings. Regulus was a controversial work, leading to it being stabbed in 1863 by a homeless man named Walter Stephenson.
A group of South Florida artists protested nonprofit Oolite Arts’ May 3 decision to remove an artwork with the pro-Palestinian phrase “from the river to the sea” from an art exhibition at a ...
On the other hand, Thierry de Duve [9] argues that disputes about the definition of art are a necessary consequence of Marcel Duchamp's presentation of a readymade as a work of art. In his 1996 book Kant After Duchamp he reinterprets Kant's Critique of Judgement exchanging the phrase "this is beautiful" with "this is art", using Kantian ...
Pages in category "Art controversies" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.