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"I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso." -Diego Rivera

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April 2008
- Classic Painting May Not Be Goya's
  
  Independent (UK) | Apr 14, 08 8:28 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Madrid's Prado Museum tomorrow opens a major exhibition, Goya in Times of War , but while the show will contain many of the master's most famous paintings from the Napoleonic invasion, his major 1808 work The Colossus has been withdrawn. The reason? After two centuries, art historians say the work might not be Goya's at all. More »
- Guggenheim's Vegas Gallery Craps Out
  
  Las Vegas Sun | Apr 11, 08 10:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Guggenheim Museum's second venue on the Las Vegas Strip is closing its doors after 7 years. The nonprofit satellite gallery, which presented works from both the New York museum and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, was housed in the decidedly for-profit Venetian Hotel. A larger space folded only 18 months after opening in 2001 because of lack of funds and poor attendance, the Las Vegas Sun reports More »
- Carla Nude Pic Fetches $91K at Christie's
  
  AFP | Apr 10, 08 8:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sarkozy isn't the only one who gets to see his wife in the buff: a collector paid $91,000 for a photograph of a naked Carla Bruni at Christie's today. The auction house expected Michel Comte's 1993 portrait of the French first lady to sell for no more than $4,000, AFP reports. Brigitte Bardot, however, was the auction's big winner: Richard Avedon's photograph of the French star fetched $181,000. More »
- 'Gay Last Supper' Sparks Rage
  
  ABC News | Apr 9, 08 11:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A tiny Vienna museum with ties to the Catholic Church has became the target of worldwide outrage after displaying a homoerotic mural depicting the Last Supper, ABC News reports. The painting, by one of Austria's most cherished artists, shows naked apostles drinking and having an orgy. It has now been removed, and the row has been characterized as a Catholic version of the Mohamed cartoon uproar. More »
- She Painted Bolero
  
  New York Times | Apr 8, 08 11:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Struck down by a degenerative brain disease, mathematician and scientist Anne Adams lost much of her ability to do even simple scientific tasks. But the disease also unleashed a fierce artistic creativity, as her brain rewired itself to compensate for the damage. Among her work is a painting that represents 340 bars of Ravel's "Bolero," accurately reflecting the composer's musical structure in visual form, the New York Times reports. More »
- Hockney Donates 40-Footer to Tate
  
  Times (UK) | Apr 8, 08 8:20 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - David Hockney has donated his largest-ever painting to London's Tate museum rather than sell it for a presumed price of several million dollars, reports the Times of London. Hockney, one of the world's foremost figurative painters, said donating the 40-foot-long Bigger Trees Near Warter was a "duty," and added, "You've got to be reasonably generous to be an artist." More »
- Not a Great Time to Be an Artist
  
  Portfolio | Apr 3, 08 5:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The exploding art market may be about to deflate: New York’s flurry of contemporary art fairs last week had surprisingly good sales in light of the economic times, reports Portfolio , but the president of one of the nation’s most active lenders against art predicts a sharp downturn from last year’s incredible $12 billion sales—and a "flight to quality" that could leave emerging artists in the cold. More »
March 2008
- SF Museum Cancels 'Animal Snuff' Art Show
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Mar 30, 08 8:13 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Following death threats, a San Francisco art museum has canceled a controversial exhibit that included video clips of animals apparently being bludgeoned to death. "We remain committed to freedom of speech as fundamental to this institution, but we have to take people's safety very seriously," said the president of the San Francisco Art Institute. "We've gotten dozens of threatening phone calls that targeted specific staff people with death threats, threats of sexual assaults." More »
- Beloved Brit Painting Once Owned by Hitler
  
  Guardian (UK) | Mar 28, 08 11:17 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A nude painting of Venus on display in London's National Gallery for 45 years—one of the gallery's most popular works—turns out to have been once owned by Adolf Hitler. The whimsical Cupid Complaining to Venus, by German master Lucas Cranach, was given to Hitler by a prominent Nazi and hung in his apartment in Munich, the Guardian reports. More »
- Art Funds Looking Far East
  
  Bloomberg | Mar 20, 08 11:54 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With major economies slowing and the US dollar near historic lows, art investment funds are looking to move away from the slowing Western art market, Bloomberg reports. Funds are sinking millions into works from China, India, and the Middle East. One leading fund has met its target for contemporary Chinese art and is aiming to expand into older works. More »
- Lauder Gives Whitney Museum $131M
  
  New York Times | Mar 19, 08 11:52 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - New York's Whitney Museum announced yesterday that its chairman, the cosmetics executive Leonard Lauder, would donate $131 million to boost the institution's endowment. The gift is a transformational sum for the museum, which is devoted to American modern art, and one of the largest donations ever made to a museum endowment. But Lauder's gift has a catch, writes the New York Times : he's requiring the museum to halt plans to move out of its famous building on Madison Avenue. More »
- Getty Lands a Morbid Gauguin
  
  Los Angeles Times | Mar 12, 08 2:53 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired an 1892 work by Paul Gauguin the Los Angeles institution's curator calls "the most famous painting by Gauguin that no one has seen," the Los Angeles Times reports. Arii Matamoe (The Royal End) —bought from a Swiss collector for an undisclosed sum—is one of the painter's most morbid Tahitian paintings, depicting a severed head on a pillow. More »
- Whitney Biennial: Recession Art
  
  New York Times | Mar 7, 08 10:20 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - This weekend sees the opening in New York of the Whitney Biennial, the always controversial survey of contemporary American art. The theme this time around is lowered expectations, writes Holland Cutter for the New York Times , and the result is a modest, low-key, sparsely populated affair. "A biennial for a recession-bound time? That’s one impression it gives," writes Cotter. More »
- Fine Arts Could Use Some Color
  
  Guardian (UK) | Mar 5, 08 12:17 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Britain's culture minister set off a row about high culture and national identity this week in castigating a popular series of classical music concerts for failing to attract a multiethnic audience. For Candace Allen, an African-American author living in London, the debate is more than theoretical: while classical music can be life-affirming, it's tougher to appreciate with white audience members staring at you. More »
- Vatican Goes to Confessional in an Art Museum
  
  Newsweek | Mar 2, 08 9:36 AM CST