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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
CANBERRA.- The National Gallery of Australia 's blockbuster exhibition "Masterpieces from Paris: van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond" will be on show from December 4, 2009 to April 5, 2010. The exhibition will showcase 112 Post-Impressionist works from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and includes famous masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Georges...
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Illicit Cultural Property (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Yale Daily News updates two disputes involving Yale University. The first is a dispute involving the Night Cafe by Vincent Van Gogh : Pierre Konowaloff, the descendant of a Russian aristocrat who once owned the painting, claims it is rightfully his because the Soviet government expropriated it from his family in 1918. The Soviet government seized “The Night Café” from Konowaloff’s...
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Gandalf's Gallery (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
David Bates (born Dallas, Texas, 1952) became a noted realistic figure and narrative painter at a time when Abstract Expressionism was all-prevailing. However, he has been influenced by modernism including the painting of Vincent Van Gogh, German Expressionism and American Expressionist, Marsden Hartley. He later added abstract sculpture to his pursuits, working in painted wood and painted bronze....
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Historical Tapestry (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Everybody loves Vincent van Gogh. Or at least it seems that way: he attracts millions of people to museums and exhibitions; he sells thousands of posters, not to mention the barrage of van Gogh shower curtains, coffeecups, and even action figures. Most people recognize his most famous pictures. He’s even been the butt of sitcom jokes. Why do I love Vincent van Gogh? Partly for the same reasons...
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Writing the Renaissance (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Most of us who know anything at all about Vincent van Gogh have heard the story of how he cut off his ear and presented it as a gift to a prostitute. But how many of us have delved beneath the surface of the anecdote to imagine the relationship that existed between Vincent and the girl, identified only as "Rachel" in the article about the incident in the local paper? Sheramy Bundrick, and...
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
While Vincent van Gogh has become almost as famed for his troubled mind as for his paintings, a new exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum seeks to remind us there was more method than madness to his style.
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KENYAN CHESS BLOG by Edwin korir (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
By Mehul Gohil What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch painter and genius) I thought I'd use Van Gogh qoutes rather than Ngugi Wa Thiongo ones since the Kenya Simbas lost by a nightmarish Fischeresque margin of 6-0. We were simply outplayed, outmanouvered, outthought, outprepared but maybe not outorganised! Some players thought that there was probably...
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edward_ winkleman (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Was having a bit of a rough day (don't ask), but this just cracked me up right out of it. From The Onion: Hoping to boost attendance and broaden its base of supporters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art launched a new initiative this week that allows patrons, for the first time ever, to prod and scratch at the classic paintings in its revered collection. "Though it contains more than two million...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
"A major exhibition of letters and paintings by the artist Vincent van Gogh will go on show at the Royal Academy of Art early next year. ... Curator Ann Dumas hopes they will show a more balanced view of the artist, who is often regarded as an eccentric genius."...
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Art News Blog (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Art crime is big business with an estimated $6 billion in losses annually! Here's a list of the FBI's Top 10 art crimes at the moment.. Iraqi Looted and Stolen Artifacts - The significant Statue of Entemena was recovered in 2006 but there are still many pieces missing. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft - Thieves stole as much as $300 million worth of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
Yale University's acquisition of a Vincent Van Gogh painting that Russia once claimed as its own amounted to acceptance of stolen property and "art laundering," a descendant of an earlier owner alleges.
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
A descendant of the owner of a famous Vincent Van Gogh painting says Yale University should have known the painting was stolen when it acquired it.
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Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
Girl on cell : So I bought this air conditioner for my living room, and it's entirely too large for me to install by myself, because it weighs 78 lbs. No, seriously, I cannot even get it out of the box. I know--for the time being I'm just referring to it as a Duchamp "readymade." Ew! Don't you call me bohemian! --19th & 6th Art professor : You should look at Picasso and Matisse. These...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
Two German art historians are challenging the legend of Vincent van Gogh’s ear, saying that the Dutch painter, top, did not slice off his left ear in a fit of madness but that he concocted the tale to protect Paul Gauguin, above, who cut off van Gogh’s ear with a sword, The Daily Telegraph of London reported. In a new book, “Van Gogh’s Ear: Paul Gauguin and the Pact of Silence,”...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
A descendant of the original owner of a famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh will press his claim against Yale University that he is the rightful owner, his attorney said Friday.
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