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Art Heist at French Museum

Sisley, Monet lost when gunmen storm French museum in brazen daylight heist

Aug 6, 07 8:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hooded gunmen stormed a French museum in Nice yesterday afternoon and stole two Brueghel masterpieces, a Sisley, and a Monet. The thieves ordered employees to lie on the floor before stuffing the paintings in bags and fleeing. Police believe the heist was a "special order" for a private buyer... More »

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art museum • France • art • robbery • painting • art heist

New Van Gogh Surfaces

Work created during stay at asylum

Aug 3, 07 6:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A previously undiscovered Van Gogh has been found hiding in plain sight—beneath another painting. Conservators at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts X-rayed The Ravine, revealing another painting created several months earlier, the MFA and the Van Gogh Museum said today. A pen-and-ink drawing of the concealed painting, Wild Vegetation,... More »

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Boston • art • painting • Amsterdam • Vincent Van Gogh • Museum of Fine Arts • Van Gogh Museum • Wild Vegetation • asylum

Getty Sends Looted Art Home

Italy wins decades-long fight over illegally purchased antiquities

Aug 2, 07 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles will return to Italy 40 works of art, including some of the finest in the museum's collection, following a decades-long legal battle. The museum has agreed to give up dozens of  masterpieces that Italy claims were looted, including its signature 5th-century marble... More »

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art • Italy • Los Angeles • museums • J. Paul Getty Museum • looting • Getty

London Art Sales Soar

Bacon tops Sotheby's contemporary auctions; London shows new art-market clout

Jun 25, 07 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Francis Bacon took top honors and Damien Hirst became the highest-priced living artist—beating out Jasper Johns—at Sotheby's contemporary auctions in London last week. A 1971 Bacon self-portrait went for $43.2 million, and the Hirst pill cabinet called "Lullaby Spring" for $19.4 million. "Hirst is... More »

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art market • London • art • Sotheby's • Damien Hirst • Francis Bacon • auction

Diamonds
Are a Skull's Best Friend

Platinum cast +
8,601 jewels =
$100M price tag

Jun 2, 07 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The priciest work of modern art ever created is on view at a London gallery, priced at just $100 million. Death-obsessed artist Damien Hirst cast a human skull in platinum and encrusted it with diamonds, creating a piece he calls "For the Love of God." He kept the... More »

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art • modern art • Damien Hirst • White Cube Gallery • skull • diamond

Museum Bids to Turn
eBay to Art

Vermont museum gives celebs $1000 to blow online, then curates finds

May 29, 07 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ebay as high culture? The Shelburne Museum in Vermont is showcasing the online auction winnings of celebs such as Jerry Seinfeld, Bianca Jagger, and John Lurie, in an exhibition titled "Got eBay? Celebrity Collections Created Online." Museum director Stephen Jost gave a group of big names $1000 each... More »

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art museum • contemporary art • eBay • art • museum • Bianca Jagger • John Lurie • Jerry Seinfeld • Shelburne Museum • Vermont • online auction

(Newser) - A New England museum will display an artist's work against his will, the New York Times reports. Swiss provocateur Christoph Büchel, who recreates environments for visitors to wander through, shut down his show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art after a squabble over budget constraints. But the museum... More »

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contemporary art • art • Christoph Buchel • museum • artist

$72M Sale Shatters Warhol Record

Auction madness continues
as contemporary-art market sizzles

May 17, 07 4:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Andy Warhol painting sold for $71.7 million last night at Christie's, more than quadrupling the previous record price for a work by the pop artist. The price for "Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)," part of Warhol's "Death and Disaster" series, more than doubled... More »

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art market • contemporary art • art • Andy Warhol • Sotheby's • Christie's • painting • pop art • Mark Rothko • art auction

Bubbles Painter Washed Up
No Longer

Britain's Tate plans retrospective on soapy artist Millais

May 16, 07 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - London's Tate Britain gallery is trying to rescue the cred of a Victorian painter whose best known work is synonymous with crass commercialism. Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais is best known for Bubbles, which he sold to the Pears Soap company to make it one of the most reproduced images in... More »

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London • art • Tate Gallery • John Everett Millais • painting

Rothko Fetches $73 Million

Record price for seminal modern work marks trend in art purchases

May 16, 07 8:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sotheby’s sold a Mark Rothko painting last night for $72.84 million, a record price for a piece of art created after World War II and a signal of a new boom in the market. Seller David Rockefeller bought the 7-foot-tall "White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender),"... More »

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art market • contemporary art • globalization • art • Andy Warhol • Sotheby's • Christie's • Damien Hirst • painting • Mark Rothko • Jasper Johns

(Newser) - Polish artist Pawel Althamer has placed a 70-foot long nude balloon in a plaza in Milan. It is a self-portrait of the artist.  In Italy such a sculpture is "nothing new."   A passing American commented that it "wouldn't fly" in the U.S. More »

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art • nudity • Italy • Pawel Althamer • Milan • hot air balloon

Mexicans Stand for Art, Nudity

Thousands go au naturel for photo shoot

May 7, 07 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A mob of some 20,000 Mexicans stormed the capital yesterday morning not to protest, but to show off their birthday suits. The stark-naked crowd pranced around Mexico City's historic plaza as part of a giant photo shoot orchestrated by New York–based photographer Spencer Tunick, a well-known buff of... More »

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Mexico City • Mexico • art • Spencer Tunick • nudity • photography

I Bought Andy Warhol  

Pop artist's mass-produced work climbs in price, prestige worldwide

Apr 30, 07 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hipsters have known it forever, and buyers are catching on: Andy Warhol is the hottest artist around. The Times reports that his sales, including a projected $35 million for a painting at Christie’s next month, are second only to Picasso's. One expert calls Warhol "the most important international... More »

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art market • art • Andy Warhol • auction • painting • pop art • artist

The Decider With the 'Yee Haw' Aesthetic

Blumenthal connects the dots from cowboy
art to Abu Ghraib

Apr 26, 07 10:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - You can learn a lot from the art in someone's office, says Sidney Blumenthal, even the oval one. George Bush's prized painting of cowboys riding into the unseen helps explain his "stay the course" mentality, while a painting of the Alamo feeds W's evangelically inflected insistence on a "... More »

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torture • White House • art • painting • decorations • George W. Bush

Communist Art Is Capitalist Hit  

Russian collectors get nostalgic for commie propaganda art, bucolic peasant scenes

Apr 23, 07 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nostalgia for the good old days of the USSR is in—at least for Russian art collectors. These days, communist-inspired paintings of peasant scenes and heroic workers have acquired a uniquely capitalist hipness. "The art was propaganda of happiness," says Yuri Tyukhtin, a banker who runs an art... More »

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Russia • communism • propaganda • art • collecting • USSR • capitalism • Soviet • art collector

Can Chinese Art Stay Hot?

It's all the rage in Europe, but will Chinese-themed art lose its market power?

Apr 20, 07 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a year of high excitement and higher prices, Chinese artists are hot at influential European fairs. But the bubble may have grown too fast, and Portfolio's Alexandra Wolfe reports on speculation that it's about to burst. One curator says Chinese art is "a consumer category, not a collector... More »

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China • art market • Chinese art • art • collecting • art collector

Obama as Jesus
Stirs Some Ire

Christ sculpture draws protest, but Barack turns the other cheek

Apr 3, 07 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Another sculpture of Jesus is stirring protest this Holy Week—this time a work portraying Barack Obama as the savior. The Art Institute of Chicago has gotten a flood of angry calls over the piece in an exhibition of student work, close on the heels of the chocolate Christ brouhaha... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • presidential campaign • free speech • art • religion • sculpture • Christ • Art Institute • Election 2008 • presidential election

Art Market Fuels Boom in Private Museums

Contemporary collectors keep architects busy designing special exhibition spaces

Mar 18, 07 10:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Contemporary art collectors, no longer content to hang the Julian Schnabel over the sofa, are commissioning celebrity architects to design special exhibition spaces, complete with soaring ceilings, professional lighting, and temperature controls. With the art market booming, so is the market for private museums, worrying some observers that important works... More »

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art market • contemporary art • private museums • Richard Gluckman • Rene Gonzalez • Richard Meier • Michael Matzan • Julian Schnabel • architecture • art • art collector

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