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Sotheby’s bailed out over $ 300 million for impressionists and contemporary art
08.11.2015 NEW YORK. Sotheby’s set a new record for Picasso’s blue-period paintings by selling a two-sided erotic portrait for more than $ 67.5 million. In general, the auction of impressionists and contemporary art, which took place on Thursday, brought more than 300 million US dollars.
National Gallery in Washington acquired Ochertert’s painting
25.10.2015 WASHINGTON. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, acquired a rare painting by Dutch artist Jacob Ochtervelt, “A Nurse and a Child in the Foyer of an Elegant Townhouse,” 1663).
New Yorkers will be able to attend MoMA PS1 for free all year
20.10.2015 NEW YORK. The exhibition complex MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) PS1 on Long Island invited New Yorkers to attend exhibitions in Queens for free for a whole year starting on October 11. The campaign was made possible thanks to a grant from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.
In Boston, a rally against Renoir
18.10.2015 BOSTON. A small group of Boston residents staged a rally a few days ago near the walls of the Museum of Fine Arts. Their only requirement was to remove from the museum exposition the works of the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. How did Renoir not please the Bostonians?
Merchants and aristocrats in the paintings of Dutch masters
17.10.2015 BOSTON. Over the years, employees of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston have planned and developed an exhibition of paintings by Dutch masters in a somewhat unusual perspective.
Opening of the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi is postponed to 2016
12.10.2015 The opening of the Louvre branch in Abu Dhabi was postponed until next year due to a delay in the construction work.
The Dutch government will help the national museum to buy two rare paintings by Rembrandt
01.10.2015 The Dutch government has pledged to help the National Museum acquire a pair of rare Rembrandt’s paintings from French businessman Eric de Rothschild for 160 million euros, a record price for European museums.
The strike at the Musée d’Orsay disrupted the opening of an exhibition on prostitution
29.09.2015 The Orsay Museum was not able to open the long-awaited exhibition “Shine and Poverty: Images of Prostitutes 1850-1910” last Tuesday (September 22) due to a staff strike.
Lost picture of young Rembrandt discovered in New Jersey
28.09.2015 NEW JERSEY. A small oil painting was auctioned for $ 870,000, which is a thousand times the nominal value.
The "gospel of the wife of Jesus" may be genuine
26.09.2015 CAMBRIDGE. The mystery surrounding the so-called “Gospel of the wife of Jesus” may begin to dissipate. A new study of the ink with which this highly controversial papyrus was written showed that they are genuine.
TripAdvisor compiled a hit parade of world museums. Hermitage - 6th
21.09.2015 The Hermitage took sixth place in the list of 25 best museums in the world according to the travel portal TripAdvisor, ahead of the national treasures of Great Britain and Holland.
The largest collector in Italy, unknown to anyone Frederico Cerruti
18.09.2015 Every Sunday, an unremarkable-looking man in an ordinary dark blue suit and white shirt arrived in an unremarkable car in an unremarkable house on the outskirts of Turin and sat down to dine in the company of his housekeeper Marcelina in a small portico decorated with living orchidsHe could have lunch in a hall with ten metaphysical paintings by de Chirico, but this man loved flowers, loved beauty.
Nine works of Andy Warhol stole in Los Angeles
17.09.2015 Andy Warhol’s nine original works were stolen from a business center in Los Angeles. The thieves replaced the original works with high-quality fakes, and although the theft was allegedly committed three years ago, it became known only last week.
UK owns a "secret" collection of art worth 3.5 billion pounds
12.09.2015 The UK government and local governments own artworks worth at least £ 3.5 billion, but only a small fraction of these wealth is publicly available. Such data were revealed during the study of the initiative group of the Taxpayer Alliance.
There is no global market for contemporary art
28.08.2015 LONDON. This thesis formed the basis of the new book, The Myth of a Global Art Market, by Professor Olav Velthyuys of the University of Amsterdam, a specialist in economics and sociology.