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Art

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

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February 2008
- $160M in Art Stolen in Zurich
  
  BBC | Feb 11, 08 9:10 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - A gang of armed art thieves absconded with four masterpieces by Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, and Cezanne worth $160 million from a Zurich museum yesterday. The brazen daytime robbery follows a theft of two Picassos in Switzerland just two days earlier. The three masked thieves confronted a guard with guns, grabbed the paintings, and took off in a white vehicle, said authorities, who described the operation as a "spectacular" heist. More »
- Thieves Snag 2 Picassos
  
  Guardian (UK) | Feb 8, 08 2:28 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Thieves stole two Picasso paintings that belong to a German museum from a Swiss art gallery where they had been on display, the Guardian reports. The pilfered works, Tete de Cheval and Verre et Pichet, were on loan from the Sprengel Museum. Combined, they're worth $4.5 million, AFP reports. More »
- For Jasper Johns, Gray Matters
  
  Bloomberg | Feb 8, 08 1:56 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Visitors to the major Jasper Johns exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York might find the art a bit colorless. But that's precisely the point: The renowned American artist has filled the galleries with 119 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures executed in shades of gray. The nearly monochromatic show is "unexpectedly rich" but also "weirdly obsessive," writes Bloomberg critic Linda Yablonsky. More »
- LA Museum's Extension Has Split Personality
  
  Los Angeles Times | Feb 7, 08 1:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Critics are assessing Los Angeles's newest art institution, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, housed in a building by Renzo Piano on the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It's a strange mix of public and private: The new building—to open Feb. 16—was funded by billionaire benefactor Eli Broad and integrated with LACMA before Broad announced that his collection won't be permanently housed there, after all. More »
- Russians Smash Records at Sotheby's Sale
  
  Bloomberg | Feb 6, 08 1:22 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Sotheby's held its most successful sale ever of modern and impressionist art in London last night, with Russian collectors leading a buying frenzy on a day stock markets tumbled. The auction house sold 67 lots worth $230 million—topping high estimate, Bloomberg reports. "There was a lot of buying from Russians,'' one dealer said. "They have a lot of money." More »
- Death Photo of Famous War Correspondent Surfaces
  
  Associated Press | Feb 4, 08 3:35 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - He was a celebrated World War II correspondent who became a household name and earned a Pulitzer Prize for his stories about hometown soldiers. But the photo that captured Ernie Pyle’s death on the battlefield only turned up recently, surprising historians, AP reports. The never-before-published photo shows Pyle lying on the ground after being shot by the Japanese in 1945. More »
- Kara Walker's Art Shocks, Awes
  
  Ebony | Feb 3, 08 7:33 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - American artist Kara Walker stirs up “a toxic stew of race, sex, power and history” with her work—now enjoying a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York—exploding antebellum stereotypes about black bodies, Rosalind Cumming-Yeates writes in Ebony . The youngest artist ever to receive a Macarthur “genius” grant (at 27), Walker uses the period technique of silhouettes to trace slavery’s horrors. More »
January 2008
- Disputed Show Opens to Raves
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jan 23, 08 12:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - London's Royal Academy opened its blockbuster exhibition of Russian-owned paintings last night, after narrowly escaping cancellation by the Russians last month. Critics agree that the stunner of From Russia is Matisse's 1910 The Dance , which rarely leaves the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. "It blasts any picture near it off the wall," says the Telegraph 's critic. More »
- Mona Lisa Mystery Solved
  
  Reuters | Jan 15, 08 9:50 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The true identity of Mona Lisa has puzzled art historians for centuries. A wealthy merchant's wife called Lisa was the obvious candidate, but speculation persisted that the woman with the come-hither smile was Leonardo da Vinci's mother, his lover, or even Leonardo himself. Now German experts say they've solved the mystery, Reuters reports: The portrait is indeed the merchant's wife. More »
- Russian Art Approved for UK Display
  
  Times (UK) | Jan 10, 08 1:40 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Royal Academy in London will scramble to open a major exhibition of Russian-owned art after Russian officials finally granted permission to send the works to the UK, the Times of London reports. The show faced cancellation over Russian concerns that the works would be subject to seizure, a dispute seen as fallout from the Alexander Litvinenko affair. More »
- Brazilian Cops Recover Stolen Picasso
  
  Reuters | Jan 9, 08 2:20 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Police in Brazil have recovered a Picasso painting stolen from a Sao Paulo museum last month and arrested two suspects yesterday. The Picasso, Portrait of Suzanne Bloch , and a painting by Brazilian Candido Portinari are valued at a combined $55 million. The thieves broke into the museum using a hydraulic jack and snatched both paintings in 3 minutes. More »
- Long-Serving Met Director Set to Retire
  
  Bloomberg | Jan 9, 08 12:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Philippe de Montebello, the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will retire by year's end, Bloomberg reports. Since he took over in 1977, the museum has nearly doubled its exhibition space, including popular Greek and Roman antiquities galleries that opened in April; at 4.6 million visitors a year, it's become New York's most-visited attraction. More »
December 2007
- Contemporary Art Scores for Auction Houses
  
  Bloomberg | Dec 27, 07 11:39 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Contemporary art has been very good to Sotheby’s, fueling a 46% boost in sales for the world’s second-largest auctioneer this year over last, Bloomberg says. A crop of new collectors from the US, Russia and Asia brought new records for artists like Francis Bacon and Jeff Koons, for a total take of $5.33 billion. But some dealers fear the craze could be headed for a crash. More »
- Art Market Sails Over Turmoil
  
  Associated Press | Dec 26, 07 6:01 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - US financial markets were in chaos this year, but the art market certainly wasn't. The expanding ranks of the super-rich, the weak dollar, and emerging connoisseurs from Russia, China, India, and the Middle East kept auction houses in fine form, the AP reports, with postwar and contemporary works—including a $71 million Warhol—leading the way. More »
- Bangladesh in Frenzied Search for Stolen Art
  
  Reuters | Dec 24, 07 11:34 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Bangladesh has mounted a massive hunt for two priceless artifacts that went missing yesterday at the Dhaka airport, Reuters reports. The statues of the Hindu god Vishnu, sculpted 1,500 years ago, were on their way to an exhibition at a Paris museum. Bangladeshi authorities have detained 12 suspects and stopped the shipment to France while the investigation continues. More »