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Art Loss Register in the search for lost works of art
23.09.2013 In the early morning of May 11, 1987, someone broke the glass doors of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, took a picture of Matisse from the wall and ran away.
Unknown Van Gogh painting found in the attic in Norway
10.09.2013 The stunning landscape, which spent most of his life in one of the Norwegian attics, turned out to be an unknown work by Vincent Van Gogh.
Matisse’s latest interview will be published in September.
20.07.2013 He was a giant of 20th century art, revered by all for his special sense of line and color. An extensive interview in which Henri Matisse freely shares his thoughts on his work and state of mind will be first published in a separate book after Matisse himself banned its publication more than 70 years ago.
The dispute of museums caused a change of leadership in the Pushkin Museum
09.07.2013 A few days ago, the newspaper The New York Times published a large article commenting on the situation with the change of leadership of the Pushkin Museum to them Pushkin in Moscow. According to newspaper columnist Sofia Kishkovskaya, the resignation was the last chapter in a fierce dispute between the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage for the work of Matisse, Picasso and other modern masters.
Irina Antonova resigned as director of the Pushkin Museum
01.07.2013 Irina Antonova, who worked as director of the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin 52 years old, left this post today.
The Pre-Raphaelites were brought to Moscow, an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin
11.06.2013 MOSCOW. State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (Pushkin Museum im. AS Pushkin) hosts within its walls one of the most visited exhibitions in the world - “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde”.
Gallerix.ru opens a special project dedicated to children’s drawings
31.05.2013 Gallerix.ru is a non-profit project dedicated to the popularization of art. In the galleries of the site you can find thousands of digital reproductions of paintings by artists of all eras and directions. Now there will be a separate gallery of children’s drawings, which anyone can fill up.
Benjamin Binstock: 7 paintings of Vermeer belong to the brush of his daughter
18.05.2013 In the new book by art critic Benjamin Binstock, “Vermeer’s Family Secrets”, there are two curious thoughts. The first is taken from Nietzsche’s quote: “We have learned to love everything that we now love.”
Sheikh is trying to buy the name of the hall in the Louvre in Abu Dhabi for 25 million euros
09.05.2013 ABU DHABI. In France, some interesting details of the relationship between the authorities of the United Arab Emirates and the leadership Louvre Museum .
New data on the work of Van Gogh
07.05.2013 AMSTERDAM. The painting "The Bedroom", painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1888, with its honey-yellow bed, comfortably located in the corner of a sky-blue room, is easily recognizable by art lovers.
The largest exhibition of works by Juan Miró opened in Moscow
27.04.2013 Yesterday, the largest exhibition of Juan Miro in Russia opened in Moscow, where more than 200 works by the Spanish master will be presented. Most of the paintings have never been shown in Russia before.
The government of Great Britain introduced a three-month ban on the export of Raphael’s drawing
10.04.2013 A Renaissance drawing bought at auction for nearly £ 30 million is prohibited from leaving the UK.
Mysterious Rembrandt: X-ray analysis revealed the details of the hidden picture
20.02.2013 Sophisticated x-ray technology will help reveal the secrets of Rembrandt’s 380-year-old masterpieceUnder the painting “Old Man in Military Costume” (Old Man in Military Costume), painted by a Dutch artist in 1630-31, studies conducted several years ago found another portrait that, for the then existing technologies, was barely visible.
A 17th-century masterpiece discovered at the Ritz in Paris
01.02.2013 PARIS. Hotel Ritz Paris, a hotel in Paris known for its bar and pool, is also popular among the French as a place for dating. The interior of the hotel has always used paintings, which, however, few people paid attention to.
Getty Museum doubts the authenticity of its collection of ancient amber
26.01.2013 In the wake of the scandal surrounding the acquisition of stolen antiquities, The Getty Museum trying to verify the origin of 45,000 antiquities and publish the results in the museum’s online database.