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art stories: 238 news summaries

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 China To Scour 
 Museums for 
 Looted Art 

Artifact team will hunt for Imperial Gardens booty

Oct 22, 09 3:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - China is about to send teams of artifact hunters to the world's top museums to track down looted art treasures. They'll be on the lookout for art from the splendid Imperial Gardens of Yuan Ming Yuan, more commonly known as the Old Summer Palace, which was used by Chinese emperors... More »

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China • art • museums • British Museum • The Louvre • Metropolitan Museum of Art • looted art • summer palace

 Fresco Clue 
 Launches Hunt 
 for Lost Da Vinci 

Artist's greatest work may be hidden behind palace fresco

Oct 20, 09 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Like a mystery straight from the Da Vinci Code, an Italian palace fresco harbors a clue pointing to the existence of a hidden masterpiece, claims an art expert. Now Italian professor Maurizio Seracini has been granted permission to seek the painting considered Leonardo da Vinci's greatest work. Seracini believes the... More »

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art • Italy • Da Vinci Code • Palazzo Vecchio • Florence • Leonardo da Vinci • masterpiece

ART REVIEW

 Damien Hirst Paintings 
 'Shockingly Bad' 

British artist's exhibit got much hype, but only because he's famous, say critics

Oct 14, 09 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Bad boy of British art" Damien Hirst decided to put his headline-grabbing, conceptual art projects aside and return to painting. Critics, however, are not impressed with the exhibition of 25 new paintings, which opened today:
  • “There are many painters in evening classes much worse than Hirst,”
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London • art • Damien Hirst • artist • exhibition • Jay-ZTV

 Teacher Fired for Butt Art 
 Paints Colbert for Charity 

Stan Murmur's auctioning portrait to benefit Va. public schools

Oct 13, 09 8:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Virginia teacher fired after a YouTube clip surfaced of him using his posterior to paint is turning the other cheek—and auctioning off a portrait of comedian Stephen Colbert to benefit public schools. Stan Murmur uses what WTVR-TV calls “the anthropometric monotype method of painting. That means he... More »

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entertainment • eBay • art • Comedy Central • Stephen Colbert • art auction • public schools • teacher • Stan Murmur • anthropometric monotype method • butt • posterior

Obamas' Art Collection: Modern, Aggressive

White House borrows 47 works of art from Washington museums

Oct 7, 09 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack and Michelle Obama, working with curators at the White House and DC museums, have borrowed 47 artworks for their walls, and their selections are far more modern and discerning than their predecessors', writes Blake Gopnik. The Washington Post critic is impressed by the "surprisingly sober, even dour" choices... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • White House • art • modern art • Mark Rothko • Jasper Johns • Smithsonian Insitution • Hirshhorn Museum

 US Lensman 
 Captures 
 Life-Size 
 Whale Pics 

Photog praises 'gentle, friendly' beasts

Oct 6, 09 2:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - A US lensman who has opened an exhibit of life-size whale photographs in Norway calls the great beasts "the most friendly and inquisitive carnivores on the planet." Bryant Austin spent five years, including days diving with "exceptional individual" whales he could touch, to collect enough photos to... More »

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art • ocean • Norway • sea • photographers • minke • whales • Bryant Austin

  Warhol Collection 
 Stolen From LA Home 

$1 million reward offered after fortune in original Warhol art vanishes

Sep 12, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - A multi-million dollar collection of portraits by Andy Warhol has been stolen from a prominent collector's home, the Los Angeles Times reports. Former investment banker Richard Weisman's housekeeper discovered that The Athletes series of 11 portraits—worth as much as a million a pop—had vanished when she entered the... More »

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art • Andy Warhol • theft • painting • art collector

OPINION

NEA Is Playing Politics, Filmmaker Charges


Aug 27, 09 11:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The National Endowment for the Arts recently encouraged artists to create works that focus on “health care, energy and environment, safety and security, education, community renewal”—a disturbing step away from the its actual mandate, filmmaker Patrick Courrielche writes for Big Hollywood. “Artists shouldn’t be used... More »

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art • National Endowment for the Arts • mandates • consensus • artists

(Newser) - Herb and Dorothy Vogel had just modest incomes—he was a postal clerk, she a librarian—but over four decades they acquired more than 3,600 drawings, paintings, and collages from America's leading artists. They collected so much that they had to stuff works under their bed. But now the... More »

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art museum • art • modern art • museum • collecting • art collector • art donations

OPINION

 How to Bust Art Myths 


Aug 9, 09 5:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Too many people have given up talking about modern art, retreating behind pat statements like “art is subjective,” writes Paddy Johnson in the Christian Science Monitor. Here are some attitudes that drive her crazy: 
  • Anyone could do that: A typical rejoinder is, “
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art • modern art • painting

OPINION

 Jackson 
 Couldn't Face 
 Man in the Mirror 

He 'was most himself' when someone else

Jul 27, 09 11:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson was always trying to be somebody else: he "was most himself when he was someone other than himself,” writes Hilton Als in the New York Review of Books. The need to redefine himself emerged in his thirst for fame that would let him “wrest from... More »

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art • pop music • artist • identity crisis • Michael Jackson • celebrity death

 Deface the Bible— 
 Don't Worry; It's Art 

Reactions mixed on gallery exhibit

Jul 23, 09 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - An exhibit at Scotland’s Gallery of Modern Art intended to “reclaim the Bible as a sacred text” did not go entirely as planned, the Telegraph reports. Visitors were invited to “write your way back into” the Bible on display, and the resulting additions ranged from the... More »

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art museum • Christianity • art • religion • Bible • gallery • Jay-ZTV

 UK Art Honcho: 
 We Need More Fakes 

Could be due to planned imitation exhibition, of course

Jul 21, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The head of London’s National Gallery wishes “we had more fakes,” he tells Reuters. “It’s worth having some in a collection. Not having them on display for what they pretend to be, but for what they are,” Nicholas Penny explains ahead of a 2010... More »

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art museum • art • forgery • National Gallery • Jay-ZTV • Nicholas Penny

China Censors Artist Leading Quake Inquiry

Police stake out whistleblower's studio, shut down blog

Jul 13, 09 9:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese artist who has made investigating the deaths of children in the Sichuan earthquake a personal crusade is facing a government crackdown, reports the CBC. Ai Weiwei's widely read blog has been deleted, and plainclothes police officers are staking out his studio in Beijing. Ai has relaunched his blog... More »

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China • Chinese art • art • censorship • 2008 Beijing Olympics • death toll • Olympic Games • earthquake • Internet censorship • disaster • Sichuan province • China earthquake • Birds Nest National Stadium • Ai Weiwei • Olympic Stadium

(Newser) - Jasper Joffe isn’t taking his breakup well. When his girlfriend of 5 years walked out on him, the painter, who’s sold work to such heavyweights as Charles Saatchi, decided to sell not just paintings, but all his worldly possessions, the Independent reports. Every single paint brush, keepsake,... More »

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art • modern art • artist • women's issues • Jasper Joffe

 Digital Rembrandt Show 
 Restores Lost Details 

Controversial reproductions aim to show the works at they were

Jul 1, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(AP) - The life work of Rembrandt, including all 317 known paintings, goes on display next week in full-sized digital reproductions that attempt to re-create the works as they emerged from the artist's studio. The Complete Rembrandt, Life Size, in Amsterdam, restores sections lopped off of canvases, transforms colors, and brightens up... More »

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art • Netherlands • painting • Amsterdam • Rembrandt • art restoration

 Madoff's Money Man Sells 
 Rothkos for $310M 

Merkin unloads art, but buyer's identity a mystery

Jul 1, 09 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ezra Merkin, the financier who pumped billions of his clients' money into Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, is selling more than 10 paintings by Mark Rothko and two sculptures by Alberto Giacometti for $310 million, reports the Wall Street Journal. Some of the proceeds may go to his defrauded investors, who... More »

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art market • fraud • art • Mark Rothko • art collector • Ponzi scheme • Bernard Madoff • Ezra Merkin • Alberto Giacometti

 London Art Market 
 Feels a Chill 

Lack of once-plentiful foreign cash hurts auctioneers

Jun 26, 09 11:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - London became the hottest art market in the world last year, eclipsing New York, but the recession is putting the squeeze on auction houses, the Wall Street Journal reports. Last year’s influx of foreign money has dried up, and sellers are keeping a firm hold on their  most desirable... More »

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London • art • Sotheby's • Christie's • art auction

(Newser) - Barack Obama inspired a lot of art during his meteoric rise to the highest office of the land. Paintings, videos, and songs are still trickling in, and some of it is good. But much of it isn’t. Much of it is, to put it gently, utter bird poop. But... More »

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Barack Obama • art • memorabilia • President Obama

Kinkade's Art Firm Loses Court Battle

'Painter of light' must pay two 'duped' gallery owners $2.1M

Jun 18, 09 7:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hugely popular painter Thomas Kinkade claims God is his art agent, but a federal appeals court has ruled against his company for putting art gallery owners through financial hell, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The plaintiffs accused Kinkade and his firm of exploiting their Christian faith to lure them into... More »

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fraud • art • painter • art dealer • Thomas Kinkade

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