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Written by: Elena Lanzanova
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 inauguration, which will be held on 24th September, it has been disclosed that there will be only four works on view: The Ninth Hour, Crucified Woman, Drummer Boy and the very much disputed Omnia Munda Mundis, the cut off hand ...
Tuesday 31 August 2010
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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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Art News
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Egypt, Unsolved Theft Of A Van Gogh
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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. ...
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by Silvia Bosi
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Art News
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Red-Hot Mid-August: Hands Off The David
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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 ...
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by Silvia Bosi
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