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Around 1,000 people, many eating bananas to make their point, protested in front of Warsaw's National Museum on Monday over a decision last week to remove artworks deemed "indecent" by the museum's director. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2GMJtuP http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

Commemorations for Leonardo da Vinci's 500th anniversary begin this week in Amboise, in the Loire Valley, with France and Italy setting aside recent tensions to honor the memory of the Renaissance genius in the town where he spent his final years. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2GHcfgl http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

As a new war reached the Libyan capital, businessman Mustafa Iskandar opened an art gallery and cultural center, hoping to draw attention to a long-neglected old city in need of revival. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2IXtddd http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

Greek artist Virginia Axioti's work is seen by thousands of people every week, but none of it is digital. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2Dyu40p http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

A Damascus museum on Tuesday unveiled a replica, built by Italian archaeologists, of part of a temple altar destroyed by Islamic State militants in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2GAi5Bk http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

Four-hundred-year-old paintings hung high inside Notre-Dame were damaged by the immense fire that engulfed the Paris cathedral, but emergency workers formed a human chain to whisk gem-studded chalices and other priceless artefacts out of harm's way. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2PgUbxA http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

A blustering bureaucrat fills a form out with your personal details and hands you a badge declaring you an inspector qualified to police Communist-run Cuba's cultural sector under a controversial new decree. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2v5lBgz http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

A Hong Kong artist has created an artificial intelligence (AI) robot which creates its own paintings. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2XhNeih http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

Cones of white paper sprout from the seasalt-eroded pillars of one colonial building along Havana's seafront, elaborately painted curtains cascade from another while out front children play with an installation of multicolored hoses. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2IxZk2E http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei unveiled a new installation in Mexico that tells the story of 43 students likely massacred five years ago in a case that exposed government stonewalling and complicity in abuses, a frequent theme for the dissident artist. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2IrdTVO http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

When a 17th century Dutch painting looted by the Nazis turned up for sale in New York in late 2017, the FBI's Art Crime Team moved in, verified its identity and helped win a court order to return the work to its rightful owners. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2I7r6UB http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

An in-depth study of Leonardo da Vinci's earliest-known drawing has proved that the great Renaissance artist was ambidextrous, Italy's Uffizi Gallery said on Monday. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2TZmgtS http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

Archaeologists on Friday unveiled a well preserved and finely painted tomb thought to be from the early Ptolemaic period near the Egyptian town of Sohag. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2D1CqgD http://bit.ly/1lWo55T