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A Climate Activist Group in Germany Splattered a $110 Million Monet Painting With Mashed Potatoes
Robb Report via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn Sunday, a Claude Monet painting was briefly covered in starch when climate protestors threw...
Inside the Getty's rigorous effort to fix a 500-year-old broken masterpiece
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoPower tools and paint made for a sometimes-harrowing repair kit for Lucas Cranach the Elder's pair of panel paintings 'Adam' and 'Eve' from circa 1530.
German art group criticizes climate protesters for using art
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA leading cultural organization in Germany on Thursday criticized climate activists for gluing...
Many intimate Renaissance portraits were hidden behind covers — this new exhibition explores why
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPortraits in the Renaissance era didn’t just hang on walls, but were often concealed behind painted...
How One Man Stole $2 Billion Worth of Art
Esquire via Yahoo News· 10 months agoHow One Man Stole $2 Billion Worth of ArtSarah Kim Sarah Kim “A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” John Keats once wrote. “Its loveliness increases; it...
Poland wants Russia to return paintings looted during WWII
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPoland will formally ask Russia to return seven paintings now in a leading Moscow museum that were looted during World War II by the Soviet Red Army, the Polish culture minister said Wednesday ...
With cars and kaiju, artists Umar Rashid and Frieda Toranzo Jaeger subvert American myth
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1816, Kentucky-born portraitist William Edward West created a print depicting the battlefield death of British Maj. Gen. Edward Michael Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans. At the time, ...
Review: In a must-see L.A. show, painter Bob Thompson uses art history to consider social injustice
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe gifted painter, who died in 1966, drew from Renaissance and Old Master artists. An absorbing survey of his career is now on view at the Hammer Museum.
Coming to the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts this fall: A Picasso exhibition
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe first exhibition at the museum devoted to Pablo Picasso since 1972, “Picasso on Paper” features...
‘Walk on Through’ Off Broadway Review: Gavin Creel Casts Himself as a Museum Virgin
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe Tony-winning actor also writes pretty great songs about experiencing the Met for the first time...