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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.
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 ...
In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help. Controversies involving art. See also Category: Cartoon controversies. ...
THE COUNTDOWN: From flagrant nudity to cartoon bestiality, there are all sorts of reasons cover art can spark controversy. Kevin E G Perry picks some of the most memorable examples
The article, previewing the upcoming exhibition "Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World," which contained about 150 works, [4] expressed concerns about a seven-minute video of the original installation of Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other staged at a Beijing museum in 2003, sparking a swift public reaction.
The largest art theft in world history occurred in Boston on March 18, 1990, when thieves stole 13 pieces, collectively valued at $500 million, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Among the pieces stolen was Vermeer's The Concert, which is considered to be the most valuable stolen painting in the world. A reward of $10,000,000 is still ...
Siqueiros completely ignored the institutional project request in pursuit of his own unique artistic idea by creating a mural, which turned out to be one of the most controversial art pieces in Los Angeles history, Tropical America (full name: América Tropical: Oprimida y Destrozada por los Imperialismos, or Tropical America: Oppressed and ...
Dated to circa 1500, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” which depicts Jesus Christ, took the art world by storm in 2017 when it sold for a stupefying $450.3 million.