4:31pm
1. £7m Picasso sketchbook stolen from Museum in Paris:
A sketchbook containing 32 sketches by the Pablo Picasso was stolen from the Picasso Museum in Paris on Tuesday. It was stored in a glass cabinet that had no alarm system and a flimsy lock, which was broken during the theft. The French press have reported that the museum’s security is notoriously ‘feeble’.
- Independent article
2. Art Basel attracts a more frugal crowd:
While attendance remains high, collectors, both seasoned and new, are spending more carefully at this year’s Art Basel, the world’s leading contemporary art fair. One...
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2:26pm
1. The world's top artists flood to Venice for Biennale:
77 countries will compete for international recognition at the 54th annual Venice Biennale, described by some as the ‘art world’s Olympics’, where countries send their best artists to exhibit in pavilions, one for each nation. Although the price of tickets has been raised from $20 to $25 (£16) this year, attendance is expected to number a respectable 400,000 before the end of the fair in November.
Wall Street Journal article
2. Yale turned a blind eye to ownership of Van Gogh bought from the Soviet Union:
A descendant...
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7:20pm
Charles Saumarez Smith opened the press preview on the forthcoming Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, by announcing that despite the economic climate and its enormous impact on gallery budgets, and in contrast to his experience of state-funded galleries, he had enjoyed the relative freedom of raising funds for a private institution.
Necessary funds for the show, he added, which opens at the end of September, ‘were very nearly there’. Saumarez Smith was also keen to point out that this was a landmark show for the Royal Academy as it will be the first time that a...
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12:06pm
Wooden figure of Jesus Christ bought by Italian government for £2.5m is a
fake, not Michelangelo:
Tomaso Montanari, Professor of Art history at Naples University, has criticised the Italian government for spending £2.5 million on a wooden sculpture of Christ which they believe to be by Michelangelo. The Culture Ministry, which has been forced to cut its budget and jobs recently, bought the sculpture without a third party opinion, and critics argue that Michelangelo never used the style employed in the sculpture. Since its purchase late last year, the figure has toured Italy and been seen by 60,000...
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4:44pm
One of the most popular exhibitions of this year’s calendar has been Picasso: Challenging the Past (currently at the National Gallery, London), a monumental exhibition that seeks to highlight Picasso’s response throughout his career to the great painters of the past, both in theme and style.
The way in which this idea is explored is one of the talking points that have surrounded this somewhat controversial exhibition. The same group of 60 Picasso paintings travelled to London from the Grand Palais in Paris, where they were displayed next to full-size reproductions of the paintings to which Picasso responded. In...
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A recent exhibition in Nottingham showcases contemporary artists' exploration of the Communist-era space race.
Cast aside by Modernists for much of the 20th century, Classicism
has a comeback of sorts, with an excellent new book reappraising
architecture partnerships and a recent exhibition at one of the very
institutions that so derided the style.
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