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Iconic Andy Warhol Works Stolen From Missouri Museum
ArtfixDaily / April 10th, 2016
An unknown number of prints from Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans" series were stolen from the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri last week. The chair of the museum's board, Sally Scheid, said: "We're shocked and totally saddened," reports the Springfield News-Leader. The museum was broken ...
UK Antiques Dealer Murdered in Oxford Home
ArtfixDaily / April 9th, 2016
A police investigation is underway after the body of UK antiques dealer Adrian Greenwood, 42, was found with multiple stab wounds in his Oxford home. Known as a rare book dealer, author, historian and antiquarian, Greenwood was last seen grocery shopping at a Sainsbury on Tuesday. His ...
Apple Watch Gives Exhibition Tours at de Young Museum
CNN / April 7th, 2016
The de Young Museum in San Francisco is experimenting with a new way for visitors to experience art. Now, anyone with an Apple Watch will be able to go through the museum and hear recordings about the nearest display when alerted by a vibration on their wrist. Made by the startup Guidekick, it's ...
Artist Sues Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Others For $65 Million
NY Post / April 7th, 2016
A performance artist-poet has filed a $65 million lawsuit against the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and four other institutions for allegedly using without his permission a 1979 photo he took of the provocative photographer wearing "drag." Bobby Miller claims that after the photo shoot, ...
New Biography Delves Into the Life of Audrey Munson, Beaux-Arts Muse
New York Times / April 6th, 2016
In a new biography, “The Curse of Beauty,” journalist James Bone uncovers the rise and fall of Audrey Munson, a Gilded Age model and silent-film star whose graceful image is ever-entwined with the beaux-arts style. Munson was the model for three-quarters of the sculptures in the ...
Painting App Draws New Adapters to Virtual Reality
Fast Company / April 6th, 2016
A painting app could be the catalyst for getting new, "non-gamer" users to try virtual reality. Wednesday saw the sales launch of the HTC Vive Headset, and Tilt Brush is one simple, intuitive and fun app that could draw kids, artists, and just about anyone to using VR. "Feels like a bit of a ...
Possible Lost Caravaggio Discovered in France
TheLocal.it / April 6th, 2016
Experts have yet to weigh in on the discovery of a possible second version of Caravaggio's Judith and Holofernes. The work is thought to be a lost version of the early 17th-century masterpiece at the National Gallery of Ancient Art in Rome and was discovered in a private collection in ...
Bern and Bonn Museums to Exhibit Art From Gurlitt's Nazi-Era Hoard
Telegraph / April 5th, 2016
The Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital, Bern, and the Art and Exhibition Hall in the German city of Bonn will hold concurrent exhibitions of artworks from the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt in the coming winter months. A recluse in Munich, Gurlitt died in 2014, leaving a massive art ...
T Magazine: New Headquarters of Google and Apple Recall Hippie Communes
New York Times / April 4th, 2016
In a new T Magazine feature, writer Nikal Saval takes a look at how and why the recently revealed plans for the new campuses of Google, in Mountain View, Calif., designed by Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick, and Apple, in Cupertino, from Sir Norman Foster, look lifted ...
Panama Papers Leak How Mega-Collector Hid Art Assets
Forbes / April 4th, 2016
One of the largest data leaks ever, dubbed the Panama Papers, has begun to dribble out information on how the world's wealthiest use offshore financing and hide assets. An anonymous source gave German investigative newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung some 11.5 million files of data ...
Andy Warhol's First New York City Studio For Sale
Realtor / March 31st, 2016
Andy Warhol's first New York City studio, the former firehouse Hook & Ladder 13, has hit the market. The list price is $9.975 million for the nearly 5,000-square-foot red structure. The Realtor.com listing: Cushman & Wakefield Inc. has been retained on an exclusive basis to offer for ...
Zaha Hadid, World-Renowned Architect, Remembered
Guardian / March 31st, 2016
Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, known for such innovative and curvaceous designs as the London Olympic aquatic centre, died early Thursday morning at age 65. She had a heart attack while being treated at a Miami hospital for bronchitis. Hadid was the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker ...
Banksy, Warhol Exhibitions to Open New Moco Museum in Amsterdam
LA Times / March 30th, 2016
The works of British street artist Banksy and pop artist Andy Warhol will represent the debut exhibitions at the Modern Contemporary Museum, or Moco Museum, which is scheduled to open April 9. Moco has a vaunted location in the Dutch city’s Museum Square, with the Van Gogh ...
Supreme Court Rules For Yale to Keep $200 Million Van Gogh
Bloomberg / March 29th, 2016
Yale University can keep a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece after the U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal from a man who says the Bolsheviks seized the painting from his great-grandfather after the 1917 Soviet revolution. Pierre Konowaloff has been trying to recoup “The Night Café” since he ...
Tomb of Jesus to Undergo Restoration
Times of Israel / March 24th, 2016
The site in Jerusalem where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected will be fully restored, church officials announced on Wednesday. Renovations of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre will begin around May 1. A team of Greek restorers will complete the project by ...
Japanese Dealer Arrested for Offering Stolen Antiquity in New York
NY Post / March 22nd, 2016
A second-century sculpture called “Footprints of Buddha,” set to be shown in New York by Japanese antiquities dealer Tatsuzo Kaku, was allegedly stolen in 1989, according to authorities. Kaku was arrested on March 14 at the Mark Hotel on East 77th Street for smuggling in the $1.1 million ...
Thomas Moran Painting Fetches $3.6 Million in The Russell Auction
ArtfixDaily / March 22nd, 2016
An iconic landcape by Thomas Moran sold for $3.6 million at The Russell auction in Great Falls, Montana, last weekend. Moran's oil Castle Rock, Green River, Wyoming was the top lot in the benefit sale for the C.M. Russell Museum. The Western art sale, held annually, ...
Shirley Temple's Blue Diamond Ring Stars at Sotheby's
LA Times / March 20th, 2016
A blue diamond ring that belonged to the late Shirley Temple Black will hit the auction block next month with a pre-sale estimate of $25 million to $35 million. The child star received the 9.54-carat fancy deep blue diamond ring as a gift from her father, according to the auction ...
Arrests Made in $16 Million Art Heist From Verona Museum
New York Times / March 16th, 2016
Thirteen suspects have been arrested in connection to the brazen heist last November of 17 Old Master paintings worth €15 million ($16 million) from Verona's Castelvecchio Museum. Verona police worked with the branch of the Italian military police that handles cultural property to identify ...
Theft Trials Begin for Paris Auction House Staff
Telegraph / March 14th, 2016
Trials began in Paris on Monday for six auctioneers and dozens of art handlers from one of France's oldest and most well-known auction houses who are accused of stealing thousands of items from consignors. An early oil by Gustave Courbet is among 250 tons of art and collectibles allegedly ...