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An artwork by street artist Banksy in Bristol has been painted over in an incident described by residents as an "act of vandalism".
The painting, opposite Bristol Children's Hospital, is of a crouched armed police officer, with a child about to burst a paper bag behind him.
The picture first appeared on Upper Maudlin Street four years ago. It has now been covered in black.
It is not yet known if the black paint can be removed.
In July, Banksy's gorilla in a pink mask painting on the wall of the ex-North Bristol Social Club, in Eastville, Bristol, was mistakenly painted over.
Saeed Ahmed, the building's new owner, said he had never heard of Banksy and had the wall whitewashed.
Mr Ahmed apologised for the whitewashing and the artwork has now been partially restored.
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Two subterranean oil tanks behind Tate Modern will be transformed into galleries, creating the "most exciting new space for art in the world", according to the gallery's chairman ... more
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Unlike New Delhi and Mumbai, the city of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) has no modern art museum, despite its traditional status as a center of art and culture ... more
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The top lot was Francis Bacon's Crouching Nude, which made £8.3m, while there were artist records for Germans Sigmar Polke and Georg Baselitz.
An Andy Warhol electric pink acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas of Blondie singer Deborah Harry went for £3 ... more
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A rarely seen painting by Pablo Picasso has been sold for almost £13.5m at Christie's auction house in London, exceeding expectations.
Jeune Fille Endormie (1935), a portrait of the Spanish artist's lover, had been estimated to sell for £9m-12m ... more
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Tate Britain and the National Theatre are among recipients as are regional venues like Bath's Holburne Museum.
The "creative learning spaces" would help children benefit from the "transforming power of our world class cultural organisations", she said ... more
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Scientists have identified why the bright yellows in some of Vincent van Gogh's paintings have turned brown.
A complex chemical reaction is behind the deterioration of the works ... more
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There's trouble at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. First, it was announced that Guy Ullens is divesting himself of the institution that he founded, and in fact getting out of Chinese art entirely, after having faced various roadblocks to realizing his vision in the Chinese capital ... more
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A painting by Francis Bacon of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud has sold at auction for £23m ($37m) - three times the pre-sale estimate ... more
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Calling it "the best shot I have taken in my lifetime," world-renowned photographer Peter Lik has sold his first million-dollar photograph, which he calls One: a fleetingly beautiful nature shot captured on the banks of the Androscoggin River in New Hampshire ... more
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