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Marks Art is home to inspiring art lovers & contemporary creators and a hub for budding investors.

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@VeritasPuella Appreciate 🙏🏻

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Benedict Cumberbatch commissions artist friend Schoony to recreate iconic Boy Soldier sculpture from Kick Ass 2.The gold rendition,costing £7,000 symbolising anti-war sentiment, now in Cumberbatch's Sunny March production office. Powerful statement against child soldiers #antiwar

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Labour's education revolution will prioritise art & culture! The next Labour government aims to ensure every child regardless of their background having access to music, art, sport & drama. Under the Conservatives, these vital subjects were overlooked and devalued! #LabourParty

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120-Million-Year-Old 'Illegally Exported' Dinosaur Fossil Returns Home after a social media crusade & a three-year standoff, Brazil's rare Ubirajara jubatus specimen is back from Germany's State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe. A mystery with unique features! #DinosaurFossil

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Stunning 2,700-Year-Old Rock Carvings Found in Sweden! Sailboats, animals, and people etched into cave walls, hidden under moss for centuries.😍These three-meter-high petroglyphs adorn a former island's rocky edge. #AncientArt #Archaeology

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Climate activists Emma and Maj smear red paint on Monet's masterpiece at National Museum in Sweden. The Artist's Garden at Giverny (1900) vandalised in bold protest.🫣🙁 #ClimateAction #ArtAttack

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Françoise Gilot, the remarkable painter and Picasso's muse passes away at 101. She captivated the art world as both an accomplished artist and a social celebrity due to her romantic relationship with the renowned Picasso. Rest in peace, Françoise Gilot.😿#ArtWorld #LegendLost

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New study reveals German museums holds 40,000 looted artifacts from Cameroon surpassing any other collection worldwide! The Atlas of Absence, conducted over 2 years sheds light on Germany's colonial history and its impact on Cameroonian heritage! #ArtRestitution #ColonialLoot

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A fascinating "Milk" exhibition at Wellcome Collection delving into milk's role in society, culture, and global politics, exploring its deep-rooted past, our present relationship, and changing perceptions. Curated by Marianne Templeton and Honor Beddard! 😍👏🏼#WellcomeCollection

[Artsy @artsy]

🎩 #RodneySmith, Nathan Holding Portrait of Himself, 2011 https://t.co/Pz3u8aQkhC

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Controversial artwork vandalized at Paris's Palais de Tokyo. The painting, 'fuck abstraction!' by Miriam Cahn, sparked debate and right-wing outrage. Despite its scheduled removal on May 14, it was sprayed with purple paint by an 'unhappy' visitor. #ArtWorld

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Artist KAWS wins $900K in lawsuit against Singapore counterfeiters. Hundreds of copyright-infringing works including dolls, figurines and canvases produced. Cease-and-desist letter sent in 2020, lawsuit filed in 2021. Total value of infringing works exceeds $63M. #ArtistsRights

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Take a walk through Spitafields, London to see our Herd of Hope bronze statues.

Inspired by real life orphans.

#elephants #wildlife #herdofhope #spitalfields #london #art #artist

Thank you @ayodeji_alaka for the image

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Feast your eyes on the incredible detail and vibrant hues of Juliette Jean’s ‘Which Direction.’🤩

Get in touch with us to enquire about this stunning piece. #artist #artcommunity #London

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The Royally Big Portrait, a digital artwork celebrating King Charles III's coronation, currently at Outernet in London. Created with over 11,000 drawings of the king, submitted by people throughout Britain, the project benefits BBC Children in Need. #KingCharlesCoronation

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Sotheby's will soon auction a Van Gogh Montmartre scene featuring sunflowers, which is expected to fetch around $30 million. This painting was once looted by the Nazis but was later returned to the Rothschild family after the war. #artnews #VanGogh

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RIP Thomas Kong- the Chicago artist who turned food packaging, plastic bags and scraps into whimsical collages often adding the words 'Be happy'🥹. He made art behind his shop counter for almost a decade. His legacy lives on through his stunning creations. #Chicago #BeHappy

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A student in South Korea ate Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana sculpture, "Comedian," during a visit to the Leeum Museum of Art. The art major, claimed he was staging his own performance since he was hungry and had skipped breakfast. #comedian #SouthKorea

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Divorce rate:

🇮🇳India: 1%
🇻🇳Vietnam: 7%
🇹🇯Tajikistan: 10%
🇮🇷Iran: 14%
🇲🇽Mexico: 17%
🇪🇬Egypt: 17%
🇿🇦South Africa: 17%
🇧🇷Brazil: 21%
🇹🇷Turkey: 25%
🇨🇴Colombia: 30%
🇵🇱Poland: 33%
🇯🇵Japan: 35%
🇩🇪Germany: 38%
🇬🇧United Kingdom: 41%
🇳🇿New Zealand: 41%
🇦🇺Australia: 43%
🇨🇳China: 44%
🇺🇸United States: 45%
🇰🇷South Korea: 46%
🇩🇰Denmark: 46%
🇮🇹Italy: 46%
🇨🇦Canada: 47%
🇳🇱Netherlands: 48%
🇸🇪Sweden: 50%
🇨🇵France: 51%
🇧🇪Belgium: 53%
🇫🇮Finland: 55%
🇨🇺Cuba: 55%
🇺🇦Ukraine: 70%
🇷🇺Russia: 73%
🇱🇺Luxembourg: 79%
🇪🇦Spain: 85%
🇵🇹Portugal: 94%

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Is art becoming a lifestyle choice? Recent auctions show a shift in collector thinking as young artists outperform big names. How does this affect the art market in the long run, do you think? #artinvesting #ArtMarket