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21.09.2016 OXFORD. Four paintings from a series of five sensory organs, one of which was re-acquired only last year, will be presented together for the first time at the exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford.
19.09.2016 NEW YORK. The famous Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin appealed to the New York State Supreme Court with a lawsuit against art dealer Mary Boone. The court documents say that in 2010, Boone deceived Baldwin and sold him the wrong picture.
14.09.2016 NORFOLK. Like all teenagers, 14-year-old Kieron Williamson likes to kick the ball with his friends after school on the field in his village of Ladem, in Norfolk (East of England). But outside the football field, it is very different from peers. A few years ago, reporters nicknamed Kiron Williamson "Mini-Monet."
10.09.2016 BRUSSELS. A painting bought through a used-goods website was identified as the work of Dutch abstract artist Willem de Kooning, lost many years ago. The portrait of the child was purchased by a Belgian couple for 450 euros (about 390 pounds) last year. Now its value is estimated at 50,000 pounds.
07.09.2016 OSLOTo determine the origin of the spot on the version Edward Munch’s Scream (Edvard Munch, The Scream), which was written in 1893 and is now in the collection of the Norway’s National Museum, the researchers used X-ray diffraction. For a long time they thought that the spot was a trace of bird droppings, but it turned out that this was not so.
01.09.2016 CHICAGO. The Scottish artist was sued after he refused to confirm the authenticity of the painting, painted forty years ago and signed by his name.
27.07.2016 LONDONBBC experts argue that the controversial painting, worth 300,000 pounds, was painted precisely by Lucian Freud, despite the fact that the artist himself denied his authorship throughout his life. Fiona Bruce and art historian Philip Mold, authors of the Fake or Fortune Air Force program, are sure that it was Freud who painted the picture of a man in a black tie.
27.07.2016 MUNICHDecades after World War II, more than 10,000 works of art confiscated by the Nazis in Bavaria, according to official statistics, returned to their rightful owners, including descendants of Jewish families. A new scandalous investigation reveals how families of former Nazis persecuted Bavarian officials in attempts to return the transferred art objects, which they continued to regard as their property.
29.06.2016 BULLIAS. The fact that Benito Amor kept archaeological and cultural values at home was revealed back in March.
29.06.2016 EDINBURGH. Leading German collector Heiner Pietzsch announced that he would not provide art from his personal collection to museums in England if the country left the European Union. Instead, Pitch is ready to collaborate with museums in Scotland.
20.06.2016 A marble sculpture of the head of the first emperor of Rome, stolen and exported from the country forty years ago, returned to the capital of Italy.
19.06.2016 LONDON. The Smithsonian Museum will not open a branch in London. The museum management abandoned this idea in favor of cooperation with the Albert and Victoria Museum and will place its collections in their new building in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
07.06.2016 CAMBRIDGE. The Fitzwilliam Museum presented to the public a painting by the Renaissance artist Sebastiano del Piombo “Adoration of the Shepherds”.
06.06.2016 VEIN. Using a new, non-invasive method of sampling for DNA analysis, scientists were able to determine which particular fungus left such noticeable traces in the da Vinci painting
04.06.2016 PARIS. Two of the world’s greatest art museums take extraordinary measures to protect their collections from flooding caused by rising water levels in the Seine.