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Scarlet fever: exploring our fascination with blood
Plus via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn medieval Europe, blood was a fascination; frightening, powerful, mysterious. Centuries later, the bright red liquid pulsing through our bodies...
See gorgeous ancient Egyptian 'mummy portraits' from nearly 2 millennia ago
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThis portrait, painted between A.D. 150 and 200 on wood, shows a young woman with brown doe eyes, a...
European court upholds Italy's right to seize prized Greek bronze from Getty Museum, rejects appeal
Associated Press via AOL· 2 months agoA European court on Thursday upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul...
Stolen de Kooning painting makes its way back to Arizona under cloak of darkness
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTUCSON – The first sign that something big was happening came when University of Arizona police cars...
Camille Claudel's hand, not her trauma, is at the center of a magnificent Getty Museum show
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA notable similarity marks a subcategory of once woefully under-recognized female artists of the...
Getty to return illegally excavated Orpheus sculptures, some great antiquities, to Italy
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe J. Paul Getty Museum is returning its Orpheus group of sculptures — a culturally significant group of nearly life-size terra-cotta figures known as “Orpheus and the Sirens,” some of the ...
Arizona museum exhibit marks end to de Kooning painting saga
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAfter a Willem de Kooning painting worth millions was brazenly stolen in 1985 from an Arizona...
National Galleries of Scotland appoints first female director-general
Press Association News via AOL· 8 months agoNational Galleries of Scotland (NGS) has appointed a woman as director-general for the first time in...
Review: A striking Danish art show at the Getty unpacks what it means to be a nation in turmoil
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAlmost five years ago, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired a very beautiful, very strange painting by a 19th century Danish artist not widely known outside Northern Europe. The museum’s recently ...
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: fascinating exchanges between two photographers a...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAccording to the National Portrait Gallery, this new exhibition pairing photographers from different...