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Art

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

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October 2007
- Art Vandals Post Video of Raid on YouTube
  
  New York Times | Oct 9, 07 12:01 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Andres Serrano, no stranger to controversy, has seen his current photography exhibition in a Swedish university town vandalized with crowbars and axes. But the latest incident of destruction had a new twist: The vandals who ran through Serrano's exhibition "The History of Sex" last week filmed their act of vandalism and posted the video on YouTube. More »
- Vandals Punch Hole in Monet
  
  BBC | Oct 8, 07 2:35 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Four or five people broke into a Paris museum on Sunday and punched a hole in a Monet. The group broke open a back door to the Musee d'Orsay and fled when an alarm sounded, but not before tearing a four-inch hole in "Le Pont d'Argenteuil," a scene of a bridge and boats on the Seine painted in 1874. The vandals appeared to be drunk. More »
- Scottish Cops Recover Stolen da Vinci in Law Office Raid
  
  Scotsman (UK) | Oct 5, 07 8:56 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Police in Scotland have recovered a stolen $75 million painting by Leonardo da Vinci in a raid on a top Glasgow law firm that led to four arrests. A lawyer in the firm was among those busted. The " Madonna of the Yarnwinder " was stolen in 2003 from the Duke of Buccleuch's castle when the thieves, posing as tourists, snatched the work off a wall and ran, reports the Scotsman . More »
September 2007
- Hirst Sculpture Springs a Leak
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Sep 28, 07 7:21 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Damien Hirst won fame and fortune for his installations of animals preserved in formaldehyde, but now, writes the Telegraph , his vitrines are in less-than-perfect shape. The Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo recently discovered liquid seeping out of sculpture Mother and Child Divided , which preserves a cow and calf sliced into segments. It's not the first Hirst to have integrity problems. More »
- Getty to Return Art; Italians Drop Charges
  
  Los Angeles Times | Sep 26, 07 11:48 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Following the outlines of a deal struck in August, the Getty Museum formally pledged yesterday to return to Italy 40 works from its collection. As a result of the agreement, which repatriates such masterpieces as an Aphrodite from the 5th century BC, Italian authorities dropped civil charges against Getty curator Marion True. Her criminal trial for trafficking antiquities continues, reports the Los Angeles Times . More »
- MacArthur Picks New $500K 'Geniuses'
  
  Chicago Tribune | Sep 25, 07 7:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - "Master vocalist" Dawn Upshaw is among 24 "geniuses" awarded half a million bucks by the MacArthur Foundation today. Back from a break to treat her breast cancer, Upshaw says she hopes that "a lot of amazing music comes from it. Maybe new pieces with young singers." Other so-called "Genius Grant" recipients include a playwright, a geographer and an installation artist. More »
- MIT Student Wears Fake Bomb to Airport
  
  Boston Globe | Sep 21, 07 12:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An MIT student was arrested today at the Boston airport wearing a device that appeared to be a bomb. Police armed with machine guns took her into custody and determined that the circuit board on her chest was harmless. “Thankfully because she followed our instructions, she ended up in our cell instead of a morgue,” said a police spokesman. More »
- New Shanghai Art Fair Wows Critics, Dealers
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Sep 12, 07 5:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Western art dealers are jittery about the coming month's fairs in London and Paris, but at Shanghai's first international contemporary art fair the mood was buy, buy, buy. The Telegraph traveled to ShContemporary, a fair that assembled galleries from Asia, Europe and the US. Censorship might reign in the People's Republic, but inside the fair the mood was transgressive and fashionable. More »
- Warriors Invade British Museum
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Sep 6, 07 12:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - British papers have been absorbed with stories of Chinese hackers, but another set of Chinese warriors has invaded London: the millennia-old terracotta statues that guard the tomb of Qin Shihuangdi. The Telegraph is presenting a preview of the British Museum's The First Emperor , an exhibition years in the making that has sold record number of advance tickets. More »
- Dirt Feels Magnetic Pull
  
  Nature | Sep 4, 07 1:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Italian researchers have solved an age-old problem of painting conservation with new technology: magnets. Restorers use special gels to work on small areas of a canvas, but removing them has remained a delicate operation that can damage the artwork. Now, Nature reports, chemists at the University of Florence have developed a magnetic gel that can be removed harmlessly. More »
August 2007
- Uncertain Art World Awaits Fall Sales
  
  New York Times | Aug 29, 07 10:47 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As the art world returns from its summer hiatus, dealers, auctioneers, and collectors are on edge about a possible downturn in the market, the Times reports. Fallout from the global credit crunch has led to speculation that astronomical prices for art, particularly in the contemporary sector, may be heading for a correction. More »
- Hitler's Bubbly Sparkles at UK Auction
  
  BBC | Aug 19, 07 3:16 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A bottle of bubbly nabbed from Hitler’s wine cellar has drawn the equivalent of almost $3,000 at a British auction, the BBC reports. A Swedish television company bought the 1937 Moet and Chandon, which a soldier gave to a lawyer as thanks for legal work some 15 years ago. An allied serviceman probably purloined it amid looting in the Reich Chancellery when the Nazis were defeated in 1945. More »
- Painter Elizabeth Murray Dies
  
  New York Times | Aug 13, 07 8:59 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Elizabeth Murray, a painter whose vivid, cartoon-based work was part of a contemporary movement away from minimalism, died yesterday of lung cancer. She was 66. A leading figure in the New York art scene, Murray won a MacArthur genius grant in 1999 and enjoyed a retrospective at MoMA last year. More »
- Kahlo Letters Reveal Anguish Over Miscarriage
  
  Guardian (UK) | Aug 12, 07 8:06 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Mexican artist Frida Kahlo reveals one of her long-held secrets in a new collection of letters published for the centenary of her birth, the Guardian reports. Titled “My Beloved Doctor,” they express her anguish over being unable to bear Diego Rivera’s child after injuries she suffered in a tram crash. “I cried a lot, but it's over, there is nothing else that can be done,” Kahlo writes. More »
- Stolen Picassos Recovered
  
  Independent (UK) | Aug 9, 07 5:18 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two stolen Picassos worth more than $66 million have been recovered by French police who swooped in as the thieves were about to sell the rolled-up canvases. Tipped off by a suspicious art dealer, investigators set up round-the-clock surveillance of the suspects for more than a month. Three men have been arrested. More »
- Art Heist at French Museum
  
  AFP | Aug 6, 07 8:29 AM CDT