The U.S. Supreme Court overturned previous lower court decisions that ruled the rightful owner of the painting is the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum. REUTERS The oil painting from 1897 depicts a ...

Entitled "Crude Oil (Vettriano)" and sometimes called "Toxic beach," the painting first revealed by Banksy in 2005 was sold at Sotheby's in London, from the collection of Mark Hoppus, bassist with ...

Between 2007 and 2012, Iraq experienced rapid economic growth fueled by the expansion of oil revenues and the restoration of relative peace in many parts of the country. Yet, one in five Iraqis lived ...

TASS/. Introduction of a price cap for the Russian oil aggravates "energy poverty" problems not merely in the developing world but also in developed European countries, Russia’s Deputy Prime ...

It reimagines Scottish painter Jack Vettriano’s The Singing Butler and was sold a day after his death was announced. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In Banksy's painting, he reworks the scene to add a sinking oil liner and two men in hazmat ... and galleries around the world". Brought up in poverty in an industrial seaside town in eastern ...