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Frescoes by Picasso in Norway under threat of destruction

19.01.2013 The Norwegian Directorate of Cultural Heritage fears that the first monumental murals on concrete, made by Pablo Picasso from the late 1950s to the early 1970s on the walls of two government buildings in Oslo, may be destroyed.

German experts confirmed that the painting found belongs to Klimt

17.01.2013 BERLIN. A group of experts from the University of Hanover (Northern Germany), believes that the authorship of the painting "Der trompetende Putto" belongs to the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918).

Another Mozart Portrait Discovered

16.01.2013 VEIN. In a young man with a thick round face, depicted in a tiny eighteenth-century painting, experts recognized the great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The National Gallery in London found another work by Titian

15.01.2013 LONDON. The portrait of the Venetian doctor Girolamo Fracastoro (Girolamo Fracastoro; 1478-1553), which has been kept in the National Gallery since 1924, belongs to the brush of Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, 1480 / 1485-1576).

18th Century Frescoes Restored at Old Royal Naval College

09.01.2013 LONDON. In the famous Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College, restoration work began on frescoes by Sir James Thornhill in the Baroque style on the western wall of the hall.

Matisse’s painting stolen 25 years ago is returned

09.01.2013 The stolen painting by Henri Matisse, valued at $ 1 million (620,000 pounds), was discovered by art critics in London.

Oslo seeks ways to accommodate Edward Munch’s legacy

05.01.2013 In 2013, the 150th anniversary of the expressionist master, the author of such familiar and iconic paintings as Scream, will be celebrated.

At the exhibition of works by Andy Warhol in China there will be no portraits of Mao

30.12.2012 At the request of the Chinese Ministry of Culture, ten works depicting former Communist Party leader Mao Zedong (1893-1976) will be expelled from the Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal exhibition

Is it possible that Van Gogh did not commit suicide?

20.12.2012 One of the scariest scenes in the history of art, until recently, without a doubt, was the drama that took place on July 27, 1890, when Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest while walking in the very place that is depicted in his newly painted painting " Wheat Field with Ravens ”(July 1890).

Millennium of Russian-German relations at an exhibition in Berlin

13.12.2012 From beeswax and birch bark to trophies and gas pipelines, the exhibition in Berlin shows a long, colorful and sometimes tragic history of relations between Germany and Russia, the two most populous countries in Europe.

$ 47 Million Head of the Young Apostle

07.12.2012 Rafael’s Head Of A Young Apostle (1483-1520) was sold for a record $ 47.8 million at yesterday’s auction at the Old Masters at Sotheby’s in London.

Dali painting sold at auction for $ 2.6 million

06.12.2012 “A sewing machine with an umbrella in a surreal landscape” (Máquina de coser con paraguas en un paisaje surrealista) - a small picture painted Salvador Dali in 1941, during a visit to the United States for director Fritz Lang, it was sold yesterday at an auction in Paris for two million euros (2.6 million dollars), the organizers said.

During the theft of Delacroix’s watercolors, the alarm did not work in the gallery

04.12.2012 As the police managed to establish, in the Paris gallery of Robert Schmit (Schmit), during the theft of Delacroix’s watercolors from it, the alarm did not work.

Museum of London discovered an unknown painting by Murillo

04.12.2012 Representatives of the Dulwich art gallery announced that they had found in their collection the previously unknown painting The Adoration of the Magi (1660-1665) by the great Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617 - 1682) by the British The Guardian.

The Louvre Museum opens a satellite museum in the suburbs of Paris

03.12.2012 During its heyday in the 19th and 20th centuries, the industrial city of Lens in the north of France sent its wealth to Paris in the form of coal.