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Intricate, Beautiful, Raunchy: Japan Embraces Its Ancient Erotic Print Tradition
by Claire Voon for Hyperallergic
October 2015-- Ukiyo-e, the popular color woodblock prints of Japan, are globally recognized and renowned, but their raunchier examples tend to see less light, rarely going on public...
A Stolen Picasso Painting Shipped As A Christmas Present Has Finally Been Seized
by Artnet News
March 2015--A stolen Picasso painting which was considered lost for years has resurfaced in the United States, where it had been shipped under false pretenses as a $37 Christmas present...
Van Gogh was murdered, claims forensic expert: "He did not shoot himself"
by Antonia Molloy
November 2014--The true nature of Vincent van Gogh’s death continues to be a topic ripe for mystery – after a leading forensics expert has claimed that the artist was murdered...
Posthumous Prognosis for Supposedly Syphilitic Gauguin, via His Teeth
by Allison Meier
March 2014--It’s long been believed that painter Paul Gauguin was wrecked by syphilis when he died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903, but thanks to some old teeth thrown down a well, he may posthumously...
How Van Gogh's Sunflowers came into bloom
by Frances Spalding
January 2014--At first nobody wanted them. Van Gogh painted four images of sunflowers in a pot, and then three copies that depart in many details from the originals. Together, they...
Antiques Roadshow portrait revealed to be by Anthony Van Dyck
by British Broadcasting Corporation UK
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Looted by the Nazis, found in a squalid apartment: Ã¢ï¿½Â¬1bn cache of degenerate art
by Tony Paterson
November 2013--A cache of “lost” paintings looted by the Nazis before the Second World War containing some 1,500 works by world-renowned artists including Picasso, Matisse...
Zeng's Last Supper Sells for Record $23.3 Million at Sotheby's Auction
by Jason Chow
October 2013--A painting by Zeng Fanzhi sold for US$23.3 million at a Sotheby's auction on Saturday night in Hong Kong, setting a new record price for a work by an Asian contemporary...
P183 Dead: Street Artist Known As 'Russian Banksy' Dies At 29 Years Old
by By: Vladimir Isachenko
The Teatralnoye Delo theatrical production company, which recently commissioned Pasha P183 to create scenery for the musical "Todd," said the artist died Monday in Moscow. It wouldn't elaborate...
Controversial Caravaggio to be unveiled in London
by Martin Bailey
March 2013--Mahon bought The Cardsharps for £50,400 (est £20,000-£30,000) when it came up for auction at Sotheby’s, London in 2006, ascribed to a 17th-century...
Stuttgart museum returns looted medieval masterpiece
by David D�Arcy
March 2013--The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart has returned Virgin and Child, a 15th-century painting attributed to the Master of Flémalle (1375-1444), to the estate of Max Stern...
Lucian Freud Says Thank You to the Nation with a Corot Painting
by The National Gallery
February 2013--The late artist Lucian Freud has left a treasured painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot as a thank you to Great Britain for welcoming his family when they arrived...
Woman Buys Renoir for $7
by The Connexion
The lucky buyer said she was persuaded to make the purchase by the fact the painting was being sold along with a doll of the American folklore character John Bunyan and a plastic cow. “I&rsquo...
Conservators also oppose plan to sideline Berlin's Old Masters
by Julia Michalska
August 2012--Conservators in Germany have joined the protest over plans to relocate the world-famous collection of Old Masters in Berlin's Gemäldegalerie. Under the Stiftung Preussischer...
Poland's long-lost Raphael found
by Julai Michalska
Portrait of a Young Man, around 1513-1514, from the Czartoryski family collection in Crakow, was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939 for Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz. It disappeared in 1945 shortly...
Munch's 'Scream' beats auction record at $119.9 mn
by Brigitte Dusseau of the Associated Foreign Press Global Edition
May 2012--"The Scream" is one of four versions of a work whose nightmarish central figure and lurid, swirling colors symbolized the existential angst and despair of the modern...
Vermeer's Woman in Blue regains its hues
by Martin Bailey
Visitors to the Rijksmuseum will soon be able to see Vermeer’s newly restored Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, 1663-64, when it returns home following a Japanese tour which funded the work&rsquo...
Leonardo's Lover probably painted the Prado's Mona Lisa
by Martin Bailey
April 2012--The Prado’s copy of the Mona Lisa was most likely painted by Salaì, Leonardo’s assistant and reputed lover. Salaì, whose nickname means &ldquo...
Divinely Beautiful Greek charioteer comes to London
by Anna Somers Cock
April 2012, London--He is called the charioteer and although damaged, with his turning, athletic body and robe so fine and clinging that every muscle is revealed, he is one of the...
Fears Grow that Greek Art Market is Riddled with Forgeries
by Riah Pryor
A major Greek collector has taken Sotheby’s to court in Athens over two alleged fake paintings attributed to the Greek artist Constantin Parthenis (1878-1967). The case has stoked fears that...
Spanish Treasure Lands After Two Hundred Years
by Martin Roberts
March 2012---MADRID (Reuters) - Coins worth nearly half a billion dollars finally arrived in Spain on Saturday after lying in a sunken warship for more than 200 years and following...
Earliest Copy of Mona Lisa found in Prado
by Martin Bailey of The Art Newspaper. Issue 232
February 2012--A copy of the Mona Lisa has been discovered in the Prado which was painted in Leonardo’s studio—created side by side with the original that now hangs in...
Rubens masterpiece "made for public" Artist chose "cheap and cheerful" wood
by The Art Newspaper
January 2012--The restoration of a painting by Rubens from London’s Courtauld Gallery has revealed that the work was probably not a commission, but created for the speculative...
Devil Found in Detail of Giotto Fresco in Italy's Assisi
by Philip Pullela
November 2011--ROME (Reuters) - Art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in...
New Biography Says van Gogh Did Not Kill Himself
by Robin Pogrebin
October 2011-- A new biography of Vincent van Gogh and a “60 Minutes” report on it scheduled for Sunday night call into question the long-accepted notion — central...
Bob Dylan Paintings Come Under Fire
by Mariano Andrade of the Associated Foreign Press
October 2011--Bob Dylan faced uncomfortable questions Wednesday over several paintings in a New York exhibition by the prolific singer-songwriter that appear to have been copied directly...
Paintings missing after Oslo bombing
by Clemens Bomsdorf From issue 227, September 2011, The Art Newspaper
Oslo, Norway -- Concern is mounting about the fate of large numbers of works of art owned by Norwegian government ministries or lent to them by the Nasjonalmuseet (National Museum...
Museum uncovers Van Gogh Painting of His Brother
by The Associated Press
AMSTERDAM -- The Van Gogh Museum said its experts now believe one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings previously thought to be a self-portrait actually depicts his brother, Theo.<...
Mexico trove of 1,200 Frida Kahlo Works All Forged: Experts
by Yuri Cortez of the Associated Foreign Press
Law enforcement officials said no criminal charges had been filed against the couple, because they are alleged simply to have claimed that the works were by Kahlo, and not to have actually created...
A New Theory for "Mona Lisa"
by Mike Krumboltz
February 2011-- For centuries, people have been speculating about who modeled for Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa." Was it Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine merchant...
Matisse sets new 49-million-dollar record
by The Associated Foreign Press
Measuring 74.5 inches (189.2 cm), "Nu de dos" was the star of the auction at Christie's. It went under the hammer just a day after rival Sotheby's auctioned an Amedeo Modigliani painting...
Painting is by Rembrant, not his Pupil -Confirms Museum in Rotterdam
by The Associated Foreign Press
THE HAGUE (AFP) -- A painting attributed for 300 years to a pupil of Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn was in fact the work of the 17th century master himself, a Rotterdam museum said...
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code: One False Louvre
by Albertine Moore, Contributor for Artes de las Filipinas
Allan Cameron, the production designer of the 2006 movie, The Da Vinci Code, starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou, had an interesting task at hand. His job was to recreate the Louvre museum...
Picasso's "The Actor" Painting Accidentally Ripped by A Woman at the Met
by Rachel Lewis, Contributor for Artes de las Filipinas