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Girl with a Pearl Earring parodies are the internet's latest art obsession

AI and trad art combine for delightful silliness.

Creative Bloq · Jan 16, 2024

Feast your eyes, feed your soul: the 31-day art diet for January

Brighten up dark January with our one-a-day selection of works of art chosen and introduced by the Observer’s art critic

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023

The delight of seeing a Vermeer at no cost

Brief letters: Kenwood House | 30-year mortgages | The Rejoin EU party | Tactical voting | Funeral songs

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28, 2023

Protesters detained as Macron visits Amsterdam on second day of Netherlands trip

Dutch police arrested two protesters who ran towards French President Emmanuel Macron shouting slogans outside Amsterdam University on Wednesday, a police spokesman said, the second public disturbance during Macron's state visit.

Radio France Internationale · Apr 12, 2023

What Are the Bots Doing to Art?

The same thing tech has always done.

Reason · Apr 1, 2023

We used DNA from Beethoven's hair to shed light on his poor health – and stumbled upon a family secret

Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically short by illness. Johannes Vermeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Franz Schubert and Emily Brontë are some famous examples.

The Conversation · Mar 23, 2023

Police imposters pulled off the world’s biggest art heist 33 years ago. Can a haunted man and $10m reward solve it?

Two thieves dressed as Boston cops made off with $500m in stolen art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than three decades ago. No arrests have ever been made, the case remains unsolved, and the museum’s chief investigator is still actively searching for the art — as a $10m…

The Independent UK · Mar 18, 2023

Police imposters pulled off the world’s biggest art heist 33 years ago. Can a haunted man and $10m reward solve it?

Two thieves dressed as Boston cops made off with $500m in stolen art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than three decades ago. No arrests have ever been made, the case remains unsolved, and the museum’s chief investigator is still actively searching for the art — as a $10m…

The Independent UK · Mar 17, 2023

Vermeer’s luminous interiors gave us a new way into the inner worlds of others

His celebration of the mundane reflected the beginnings of a modern sensibility

The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2023

A world of wonders and catastrophes: discovering Vermeer and his hometown

As the biggest ever show of the artist’s work is unveiled in Amsterdam, we retrace the enigmatic painter’s footsteps in Delft and also The Hague

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2023