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CLOSE EXAMINATIONS: THE EXHIBITION WHICH REVEALS FAKES, MISTAKES AND DISCOVERIES OF ART MASTERPIECES
The 12th September will be the last day, in London, of Close Examinations: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries, the exhibition which reveals secrets and curiosities about some historical pieces of the National Gallery collection, more than forty paintings. The enthralling ...
MILAN: MAURIZIO CATTELAN’S RETROSPECTIVE HAS ONLY FOUR WORKS
Last May Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, the councillor for Culture in Milan, had defined with great enthusiasm Maurizio Cattelan’s exhibition as a “retrospective”. The event is scheduled for this autumn at Palazzo Reale, but less than a month before its ...
STOLEN WORKS OF ART: A RELENTLESS PHENOMENON
From Leonardo’s Mona Lisa to Munch’s Scream and recently Salvador Dalì’s Woman with drawers, a bronze statue stolen in mid-August from an exhibition in the medieval bell tower Belfry, in the historic centre of the Belgian city of Bruges. ...
THE FOURTH PLINTH IN LONDON: THE NEW SHOWCASE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
When we think of Trafalgar Square in London, often what comes to mind is the column topped by the statue of Nelson, then the lions and the three military statues. Only art lovers and very few people realise that ...
EGYPT, UNSOLVED THEFT OF A VAN GOGH
On Saturday morning between 11 am and 1pm, at the Mahmoud Khalil museum in Cairo, a Parisian-style building on the eastern bank of the Nile, a painting by Vincent Van Gogh called The Poppies was stolen. ...
MUCHA ON EXHIBITION AT THE FORTRESS OF BARD
The main exhibition centre in the Valle d’Aosta region, the Fortress of Bard, is presenting the exhibition “Alphonse Mucha Modernist and Visionary”, open until 21st November 2010. It is the first large exhibition in Italy dedicated to one of ...
RED-HOT MID-AUGUST: HANDS OFF THE DAVID
If this year mid-August did not seem quite hot enough in Italy, the red-hot polemics about Michelangelo’s David certainly made up for it. This is what has happened in the past days: two lawyers would have ...
IN LUGANO THE FIRST TRIBUTE TO GIUSEPPE PANZA OF BIUMO
The Art Museum and the Cantonal Art Museum of Lugano are dedicating, until 26th September, an important tribute to the Earl of Biumo Giuseppe Panza, passionate and tireless collector of contemporary art, who passed away last April aged 87. ...
CONFLICT FOR THE HERZOG COLLECTION. THE HEIRS FILE SUIT AGAINST HUNGARY
The debate surrounding the case of Schiele’s painting has just ended and another one has begun. The portrait of Wally, stolen by the Nazis, earned the heirs of the Jewish art dealer Lea Bondi Jaray a compensation of 19 ...
A “WHITE GHOST” ON PARK AVENUE
Pleasing characters and disenchanted, sometimes diabolic looks: they are the cartoon-like children realised by Yoshitomo Nara (1959), which in the upcoming months will become renowned faces on the streets of New York. Indeed, from the 29th ...
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Written by: Silvia Bosi
The 12th September will be the last day, in London, of Close Examinations: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries, the exhibition which reveals secrets and curiosities about some historical pieces of the National Gallery collection, more than forty paintings. The enthralling exhibition lets the public take part in the challenges and mysteries which for years have ...
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
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Milan: Maurizio Cattelan’S Retrospective Has Only Four Works
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Last May Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, the councillor for Culture in Milan, had defined with great enthusiasm Maurizio Cattelan’s exhibition as a “retrospective”. The event is scheduled for this autumn at Palazzo Reale, but less than a month before its ...
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by Elena Lanzanova
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Art News
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Stolen Works Of Art: A Relentless Phenomenon
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From Leonardo’s Mona Lisa to Munch’s Scream and recently Salvador Dalì’s Woman with drawers, a bronze statue stolen in mid-August from an exhibition in the medieval bell tower Belfry, in the historic centre of the Belgian city of Bruges. ...
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by Elena Lanzanova
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WORK OF THE WEEK
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A masterpiece by Titian, which was on the ceiling of a sacristy in the Basilica della Salute in Venice, was soaked with the water used by the firefighters to put out a fire which broke out on Sunday 29th August, late in the evening, ... |
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