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Vandal spoiled the portrait of Elizabeth II
15.06.2013 LONDON. The portrait of the English Queen Elizabeth II, exhibited at Westminster Abbey, was damaged by turquoise spray paint and will now be removed from the exhibition.
German police opened the case of a multimillion-dollar fake paintings
14.06.2013 MUNICH. German police announced the disclosure of an international group engaged in fake painting. Basically, the group specialized in falsifying the work of Russian avant-garde artists.
Tintoretto painting discovered in one of the museums in London
12.06.2013 One of the paintings in the collection of paintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum), belongs to the brush of the Italian master Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Tintoretto).
England will turn into the largest gallery in the world
12.06.2013 The UK will become the largest art gallery in the world thanks to the unique Art Everywhere exhibition, which will turn thousands of billboards into exhibits of the most iconic works from the country’s national museum collections.
The national idea of Russia presented in Venice
09.06.2013 The opening of the 55th Venice Biennale was accompanied by an unusual demonstration of a five-meter sculpture "RUSSIA - TRY THE BEST".
How authenticity of works of art is verified today
04.06.2013 ROME. Today in the art market there is such a situation when European auction houses, dealers and collectors are not able to conduct proper checks to avoid the sale of works of art stolen and wanted.
Still life of Ilya Mashkov sold for a record amount
04.06.2013 June 3 at Christie’s auction in London, a painting by Russian artist Ilya Mashkov (1881 - 1944), "Still Life with Fruits", dated 1910, was sold for a record amount of 7.2 million dollars
Figure by Rubens found in the archives of the University of Britain
29.05.2013 Drawings by Marie de Medici, Queen of France, made by Peter Paul Rubens today are in the collections of the British Museum, V&A, the Louvre, and, as it turned out today, in the archives of the University of Reading (Reading University).
Warhol Foundation corruption scandal
22.05.2013 PHILADELPHIA. Revealing material was published this week by the New York Review of Books (NYRB). They shed new light on the authentication processes used by Andy Warhol.
Poland intends to return a number of paintings exported after World War II
17.05.2013 WARSAW. Polish Culture Minister Bogdan Zdroevsky said on Wednesday that Russia has yet to return several paintings captured by the Soviet Red Army at the end of World War II, including one painting by the Flemish artist Brueghel.
A painting by Jan Bruegel II sold at auction for 281 thousand dollars
09.05.2013 AMSTERDAM. The painting “An allegory of Tulipomania” by Jan Brueghel the Younger was sold yesterday at Christie’s in Amsterdam for $ 281 thousand. Preliminary estimates of experts fluctuated around 91 - 131 thousand dollars.
A gang of cultural heritage plunders arrested in Macedonia
07.05.2013 SKOPJE. A criminal group engaged in theft and illegal trafficking of objects of cultural and archaeological significance was detained in Macedonia.
Tate Britain changes the approach to exposure
07.05.2013 LONDON. Tate Britain Gallery decided to revise its approaches to the formation of permanent and temporary museum exhibits.
Turner Prize nominees announced
30.04.2013 LONDON. A list of nominees for Britain’s most prestigious art award has been announced today.
The painting of Cranach Jr. "Hercules at the court of Queen Omfala" will be restored
24.04.2013 MADRID. Restoration work on the painting "Hercules at the Court of Omphale", by German artist Hans Cranach (1513-1537), is the main goal of the agreement, which will be signed on Monday