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• $1B feud involving Leonardo's 'Salvator Mundi' reveals dark side of the art world - "It is the biggest legal fight the art world has ever witnessed: a Russian oligarch, who claims he was ripped off buying multi-million-dollar masterpieces, versus a Swiss art dealer who says it was just business."
• 3D reconstruction of Raphael’s face proves he was buried at Pantheon, say experts - "Researchers at Rome university compared portraits with a plaster cast of the artist’s skull."
• 5 hidden symbols in Vermeer's paintings - "A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist's evocative and serene paintings of daily life - but they harbour secret, symbolic messages."
• $5 Million Reward - "FBI and Gardner Museum Seeking Recovery of Stolen Art."
• 5 things you probably didn’t know about the biggest art heist in history - "Most art galleries and museums are famous for the art they contain. London’s National Gallery has Van Gogh’s 'Sunflowers'; 'The Starry Night' meanwhile, is held at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, in good company alongside Salvador Dalì’s melting clocks, Andy Warhol’s soup cans and Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, however, is now more famous for the artwork that is not there, or at least, that is no longer there."
• 6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties - "From the theatrical Art Deco to the strict minimalism of the Bauhaus, the Roaring Twenties were a truly exciting era for art and culture."
• 8 artworks make us question value of art - "When Maurizio Cattelan taped a banana to a wall and priced it at $120,000, he sparked an age-old debate about what constitutes art."
• 9-Figure Club - work of art sold at auction or private sale for US$100,000,000+.
• 10 artists' studios through the centuries - "From the Middle Ages to today, a new book offers a glimpse into the inner sanctums of artists through the centuries."
• 10 best love paintings - The Guardian.
• 10 BEST STATIONERY PRODUCTS TO ASSIST YOU IN YOUR ART & DESIGN PROJECTS - "The true value and efficiency of your desk lie in the smart assortment of designs you adorn it with - these are after all the objects that are gonna help you get through your workday, and directly or indirectly affect your productivity. It’s imperative to have a collection that really lets you work easily, efficiently, and effectively."
• 10-Minute Challenge: ‘The Unicorn Rests in a Garden’ - "We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted."
• 10 most famous paintings in the world - "As 'famous' is a subjective term, CNN Style turned to Google to see which paintings topped search results worldwide over the past five years."
• 10 of the best European cities for art nouveau - The Guardian.
• 10 of the world’s best virtual museum & art gallery tours - "The originals are out of reach for now, but you can still see world-class art - without the queues or ticket prices - with an online tour of these famous museums."
• 10 remarkable artists' homes & gardens that are also museums - "From Dalí's surreal home to Derek Jarman's seaside cottage and Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul, these homes and gardens are shrines to their extraordinary owners."
• 10 romantic paintings that stir feelings of love - "Whether it's couples locked in a tender embrace or a still-life with sensuous qualities, classic oil paintings can have an enduring appeal. And throughout history, artists have used such works to capture the beauty and passion of love."
• 15 Famous Impressionist Paintings That Will Make You Fall in Love With the Style - "Most of art history can be traced to the formation of different art movements. From the drama of the Baroque to the emotion of Romanticism, these movements reflect the views of the time. Then, in the 1870s, a new revolutionary style emerged, called Impressionism."
• 15 richest living artists - Complex | Art+Design.
• 16 stolen paintings that have never been found - SFGate.
• 20 amazing sculptures around the world - The Telegraph.
• 20 Famous Artists Everyone Should Know, From Leonardo da Vinci to Frida Kahlo - "Museums and textbooks are full of names of artists who've left their mark in history. Certain names, however, still stand out from the rest. Whether it is through their distinctive style, their participance in a pivotal art movement, or their eccentric life, these artists have achieved astounding fame. And while these creatives are well-known in popular culture now, many of them were not recognized for their talents until decades after their death."
• 25 Must-See Museum Shows Beyond the US to Visit This Fall 2023 - "This is a year without a Documenta or a Venice Biennale, or even a Berlin Biennale or a Biennale of Sydney, but the lack of major biennials has left plenty of room for international museums to make up for it with big retrospectives and touted surveys. The trend continues across the globe this fall as institutions ready their marquee exhibitions before a quiet winter."
• $26M Cimabue masterpiece found in a kitchen. Now France is blocking its export - "France has blocked the export of a long-lost Italian masterpiece, which was found in an elderly woman's kitchen and sold for almost 24.2 million Euros ($26.8 million) at auction earlier this year."
• $89 Million Can't Fix Her Mistakes - "After a dramatic rise in business and society, the art-world mogul Louise Blouin finds herself unloading a Hamptons dream home in bankruptcy court."
• 100 most influential people in contemporary artworld - Art Review.
• $600-million art collection coming to market following high-profile divorce - "Nearly three years after the high-profile divorce proceedings of New York real estate developer Harry Macklowe and his wife, Linda, a large portion of their eye-popping billion-dollar art collection is coming to market."
• 1,000 Years of Art at the Edge of the Gobi Desert - The New York Times.
• 2012 Munich artworks discovery - in March 2012, 121 framed and 1,258 unframed artworks were seized by the District Prosecutor of Augsburg from an apartment in Schwabing, Munich. The artworks, suspected of being looted by the Nazis around World War II, were discovered in the possession of Cornelius Gurlitt.
• 2015 Tefaf Art Market Report Key Findings - artnet News.
• 2017 Top 200 Collectors - ARTNews.
• 2022: unforgettable cultural moments that shaped the year - "Cultural review: From celebrity spectacle to art in conflict, here are the moments that shaped 2022."
• $42,000 way to experience Florence's Accademia art museum - CNN travel.
• $120,000 Banana Is Peeled From an Art Exhibition and Eaten - "As people watched, a prankster removed the banana, which was taped to a wall at Art Basel in Miami Beach."
• A brief history of female rage in art - CNN style.
• A Cautionary Tale of the World’s Superrich Blowing Millions on Art - Bloomberg.
• A cultural history of the 'nude selfie' - "As a new book is released exploring the modern, smartphone-facilitated phenomenon of 'sending nudes', Holly Williams reflects on the lineage of naked self-representation it continues."
• A junk dealer found a painting in a basement. Experts say it’s an original Picasso - "A painting discovered by a junk dealer in the basement of an Italian villa six decades ago is actually the work of Pablo Picasso and could sell for millions, according to experts. In 1962, he found a rolled-up canvas with an asymmetrical painting of a woman in the basement of the villa on the nearby island of Capri."
• A lost astronaut, looted treasure & a hit naked Turk: the 60th Venice Biennale - in pictures - "From the thrice-daily Swan Lake to a tragedy in an asbestos factory, Guardian photographer David Levene went behind the scenes at the ‘Art Olympics’."
• A Monument Rises From the Sand: Louvre Abu Dhabi - "The tale of the world’s newest cultural monument is tied to one of its oldest, though their evolutions bear little resemblance."
• A Nazi Legacy Hidden in German Museums - Spiegel Online.
• A New Brushstroke Analysis Reveals Vermeer Was Not the Painstaking Perfectionist Art Historians Long Thought - "Experts at the National Gallery of Art discovered underpaintings on two of the artist’s canvases."/li>
• A Painting Made by Artificial Intelligence Has Been Sold at Auction for $432,500 - "An artwork made by an artificial intelligence program sold at a Christie’s auction for $432,500, nearly 45 times its high estimate."
• A painting valued at $15,000 turned out to be by Rembrandt. Now it has sold for almost $14 million - "'Adoration of the Kings' had been virtually unseen since the 1950s, when it first came to light. It was acquired by collector J.C.H. Heldring in Amsterdam in 1955. His widow sold it to a German family in 1985, where it remained until it was sold by Christie’s in Amsterdam two years ago."
• A Parisian landmark is cloaked from view - "After three months of construction work at Paris' famed Arc de Triomphe, the 160-foot-tall war monument has been completely concealed. The landmark, built during Napoleon's reign, has been outfitted in 270,000 square feet of silver-blue polypropylene fabric bound with red ropes. Encasing the Arc de Triomphe in cloth was a longstanding vision of the late artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude."
• A Renaissance masterpiece, Nazi looters, a double murder ... and a happy ending - "His grandparents had to sell their paintings for a pittance - and then were killed. Simon Goodman on why the recovery of one means so much."
• Abstract expressionism - post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.
• Aby Warburg - (1866-1929). German art historian and cultural theorist who founded a private Library for Cultural Studies, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, which was later moved to the Warburg Institute, London. At the heart of his research was the legacy of the Classical World, and the transmission of classical representation, in the most varied areas of western culture through to the Renaissance.
• Academic art - Wikipedia.
• Adobe Fresco brings the joy of painting to the iPad - "Oil paints and watercolors are more realistic than ever."
• AI Detects Mysterious Detail Hidden in Famous Raphael Masterpiece - "Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. Now an AI neural network has identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: It wasn't actually painted by Raphael."
• AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge - "DC District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell says human beings are an 'essential part of a valid copyright claim.'"
• A.I.-Generated Art Is Already Transforming Creative Work - "Only a few months old, apps like DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are changing how filmmakers, interior designers and other creative professionals do their jobs."
• AI recreates the painting techniques of famous artists - "It's as close as you'll get to seeing a masterpiece in progress."
• AI robot created this portrait of Alan Turing. And it just sold for $1.08 million - "Eight decades after Turing predicted the rise of computers and AI, British gallerist Aidan Meller hopes that Ai-Da, a humanoid robot artist, and its artworks can act as a 'kind of mirror to where we’re going.'"
• Ai Weiwei & Warhol, Together Again - The New York Times.
• Ai Weiwei: History of Bombs review - high-impact reminder of our insatiable desire for destruction - "This site-specific work across the floor of the museum shows in chilling detail the horrible ingenuity of the weapons we innovate to kill each other. It’s nightmare-inducing."
• Ai Weiwei is moving to America - "'Everybody in United States are refugees'."
• Ai Weiwei recreates Monet's water lilies using 650,000 Lego pieces - "When the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei opens his new show in April, visitors will encounter a familiar scene at London's Design Museum: Claude Monet's famed water lilies. But rather than being composed of the French painter's Impressionist brushstrokes, the monumental recreation is made from the studs of Lego bricks - a whopping 650,000 of them in 22 different colors."
• Ai-Da becomes first robot to paint like an artist - "AI algorithms prompt robot to interrogate, select, and decision-make to create a painting."
• 'Allo 'Allo's Fallen Madonna sells for £15,000 at auction - "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies was supposedly painted by fictional artist Van Clomp."
• An App That Pushes Aside the Art World Curtain - The New York Times.
• Ancient Egypt's spellbinding mummy portraits - "Unraveling the mysteries of ancient Egypt's spellbinding mummy portraits."
• Andy Warhol: Campbell’s Soup Cans - Andy Warhol’s Soup Cans have become synonymous with the Pop art movement, and are responsible for propelling Warhol into a celebrated career in fine art from his day job as a comic illustrator. The motif made its debut in 1962 when Warhol mounted his first solo show featuring 32 canvases painted with Campbell’s Soup Cans - one for each flavor the company sold at the time.
• Andy Warhol car crash artwork sells for 'monumental' $85.4 million - "'White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times),' a colossal image from the artist's 'Death and Disaster' series, fetched $85.4 million at Sotheby's in New York, a sum the auction house described as 'monumental.'"
• Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe fetches a record $195 million - "One of Andy Warhol's iconic Marilyn Monroe portraits has become the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever to go under the hammer. The 40-square-inch 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,' one of dozens of images the artist made of Monroe in the 1960s, sold for a record $195 million at Christie's in New York Monday evening."
• Andy Warhol Said He Came From ‘Nowhere.’ This Is It - The New York Times.
• Andy Warhol’s Vintage Rolls-Royce Finds New Owner - "A luxury Rolls Silver Shadow, 1974, once belonging to famous artist Andy Warhol was bought by Wilkes-Barre art collector Ken Marquis in 1990, after the artist’s death in 1987. Last year, Marquis sold it to a Los Angeles businessman who is also a Warhol fan and his avid collector. The vintage car has reached Hollywood and is being used for a traveling exhibition of the artist’s work."
• Angelina Jolie sells Winston Churchill painting for record £7m - "The sale price was almost four times the top pre-sale estimate and beat the previous record for a Churchill painting, which was just under £1.8m. The Tower Of The Koutoubia Mosque, painted in Marrakesh during World War Two, was sold to an anonymous buyer."
• ARCA – Association for Research into Crimes against Art - since 2008. Research and outreach organization which works to promote the study and research of art crime and cultural heritage protection.
• Are NFTs really art? - "Collectible and cartoonish, these digital multiples, traded in cryptocurrency, confer membership of an exclusive club - sometimes literally. But do they have any aesthetic value? A critic weighs in."
• Are You Smarter Than a Billionaire? - The New York Times.
• ARS | ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (US) - the preeminent copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States.
• Art auction fetches $922 million for high-profile divorce settlement - "More than three years after the high-profile divorce proceedings of New York real estate developer Harry Macklowe and his wife, Linda, their art collection has become the most expensive to ever sell at auction, raking in $922.2 million over the course of two different sales."
• Art Basel & UBS Global Art Market Report 2017 - "Art Basel and UBS present The Art Market, an annual global art market analysis. The Art Market covers all aspects of the international market and highlights the most important developments in the previous year."
• Art Basel Paris Returns Larger & More French, Than Ever - "The fair will open in a freshly redone space with a new name. ‘In a way, it’s year zero,’ explained Art Basel’s chief executive."
• Art Capital Group | Art Financing Company | Art Backed Loans - since 1999. "Art Capital Group was the first independent specialty art finance firm in the marketplace, and has underwritten over $5 billion in art-backed loans."
• Art Deco: How Discovery, Invention & Fashion Created a Movement - "Art Deco or Arts Décoratifs originated in the 1920's, following the Exposition Internationale des Arts DÉcoratifs et Industriels Modernes held in Paris (1925). However, it wasn’t until the 1930’s that the movement gained momentum across both Europe and the US, broadening Art Deco to cover all elements of decorative art including furniture, interior design, jewelry and architecture. Its popularity stems from its unique origins. Rather than a design movement driven by political or philosophical forces, it was created for the desire of glamorous and alluring change, a reflection of the golden age in Hollywood and a widespread economic boom."
• art detective who hunts stolen Picassos & lost Matisses - "Christopher Marinello has spent three decades finding missing masterpieces, recovering half a billion dollars’ worth of art. He talks about threats from mobsters, tricky negotiations - and bungling thieves."
• Art explained: How do art auctions really work? - "This is what really happens at auctions".
• ART GRAILS$ - since 2021. "ArtGrails is a highly anticipated standalone NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) Platform founded by Celebrity Art Dealer and Manager, Avery Andon, in partnership with his brother / longtime client, Street Artist Alec Monopoly and veteran web developer Seth Lowell. Each release on ArtGrails is curated, with a focus on unique and iconic NFT 'grails'."
• ART LOSS REGISTER | ALR - evolving, computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables.
• Art historians try to identify enslaved Black child in an 18th-century portrait - "The painting is now set to go back on view next week, with additional context yielded by the research. And while the museum has not yet determined who the boy is or where he came from, it is forging ahead in the belief that its investigation is 'on much surer ground than before,' said Courtney J. Martin, the director of the museum, in a phone interview."
• art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds - "Scientists in Netherlands using eye-tracking and MRI scans found ‘enormous difference’ between genuine works and posters."
• ART OF EUROPE - art prints, poetry, cine, stuff.
• ART PROJECT - Powered by Google. Online compilation of high-resolution images of artworks from galleries worldwide, as well as a virtual tour of the galleries in which they are housed.
• Art Quiz: Are You Smarter Than a Billionaire? - The New York Times.
• Art restored with 'alarmingly humanoid' lamb face - "Ghent Altarpiece: Lamb's 'alarmingly humanoid' face surprises art world. The restoration of a prized 15th Century painting has revealed the 'human-like face of a lamb', surprising art critics and spurring debate."
• Art, unlocked: Italy's museums quietly reopen - in pictures - "After Italy’s government loosened Covid-19 restrictions in much of the country - including Lazio, the region that contains Rome and Vatican City - newly reopened museums are offering local visitors the opportunity to enjoy artworks undisturbed by the usual crowds of international tourists."
• ART THEFT - Wikipedia.
• Arthur Brand: ‘I never give up informants - they will shoot you dead’ - "The ‘Indiana Jones of the art world’ on receiving that stolen Van Gogh, how he gains the trust of criminals and police, and how he got into his unusual career."
• Artificial Intelligence as a Bridge for Art & Reality - The New York Times.
• Artist makes millions on Instagram with photorealist drawings - "How CJ Hendry used Instagram to make millions from her art -- and sell Kanye to Kanye."
• Artist Tom Sachs is selling Swiss 'passports' for €20 - CNN style.
• Artive - "For the protection and preservation of the world's cultural heritage through the use of technology." Artive manages the world’s most technologically advanced database with integrated image recognition database and over 500 fields of searchable data.
• Artists Gilbert & George open their own gallery, saying museums 'are too full up' - "Famed artist duo Gilbert & George, who describe themselves as two men who are together one artist, have unveiled a new gallery in London dedicated to their work."
• Artistic giant Michelangelo was actually quite short - "A new analysis of the artist's shoes revealed his small stature."
• Arts and Crafts movement - was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920, emerging in Japan in the 1920s. It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often used medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration.
• Arts & Culture - Google’s New App Brings Hundreds of Museums to Your Phone.
• Arts Society to launch online lectures for over-70s - "Lineup includes online lectures, films and live Q&As over the next few months."
• Artspace - since 2011. "Contemporary Art for Sale Online." Artspace is the digital marketplace for fine art and design. Learn about and buy artworks from the best artists, galleries and museums around the world. It is our mission to make it easy for you to discover and collect fine art from renowned artists, galleries, and cultural institutions worldwide.
• ARTSY - since 2012. "Artsy is used by art lovers and collectors to discover, learn about, and buy art. Our growing database of 1,000,000+ works of art and design by 100,000+ artists spans historical, modern, and contemporary works, and includes the largest online selection of contemporary art. Artsy provides buyers with access to top works from the world’s leading galleries, museums, art fairs, and auctions, all in one place."
• Arturo Di Modica, Sculptor of the ‘Charging Bull’, Dies at 80 - "A Sicilian-born artist, he installed the artwork in Lower Manhattan without permission. The outpouring of public support persuaded the city to keep it."
• ASK ART - "The Artists' Bluebook". Online database containing over 200,000 artists. Instant information. Art. Artists. Prices.
• At Art Fraud Trial, Sotheby's Is Pressed on Role in Sales to Russian Oligarch - "The auction house is accused of helping an art dealer who the oligarch says defrauded him in several sales. A Sotheby's specialist involved in some of the transactions defended his conduct."

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• Banksy artwork shreds itself after £1m sale at Sotheby's - "A stencil spray painting by elusive artist Banksy shredded itself after it was sold for more than £1m."
• Banksy has opened a shop, of sorts, in London - "A new Banksy installation has appeared in Croydon, South London, featuring the stab-proof vest worn by British grime superstar Stormzy during his headline set at the Glastonbury festival in July."
• Banksy Painting Self-Destructs After Fetching $1.4 Million at Sotheby’s - The New York Times.
• Banksy publishes video detailing auction stunt plan - "Why putting £1m through the shredder is Banksy’s greatest work. Art is being choked to death by money. The only rebellion left is for artists to bite the hands that feed them - as Banksy appears to have done on Friday night."
• Banksy shredding 'did not go to plan' - "Banksy: How Love is in the Bin's shredding did not go to plan."
• Banksy unmasked? Scientists use maths & criminology to map artist's identity - The Guardian.
• Banksy's balloon girl chosen as nation's favourite artwork - "Banksy's mural of a girl letting go of a heart-shaped balloon has been voted the nation's favourite artwork."
• Banksy's shredded artwork renamed - "Banksy's 'Girl with a Balloon', which was shredded went it went up for auction, has been renamed 'Love is in the Bin'."
• banana artwork on sale again & it could now be worth $1.5 million - "For their money, the winning bidder will receive a roll of duct tape and one banana, as well as a certificate of authenticity and official instructions for installing the work. Sotheby’s confirmed to CNN that neither the tape nor, thankfully, the banana are the originals."
• Basquiat Sells for ‘Mind-Blowing’ $110.5 Million at Auction - The New York Times.
• Behind the scenes: 10 artists' studios through the centuries - "From the Middle Ages to today, a new book offers a glimpse into the inner sanctums of artists through the centuries."
• Bette Midler asked, 'What's wrong with this picture?' The answer was universal: nothing - "What's wrong with this picture? Like the seemingly neglected art it captured, that's up for debate."
• Bijin-ga - ('beautiful person picture') is a generic term for pictures of beautiful women in Japanese art, especially in woodblock printing of the ukiyo-e genre, which predate photography.
• Bill Gates says crypto & NFTs are a sham - "Those digital asset trends are '100% based on greater fool theory,' the Microsoft co-founder said Tuesday at a TechCrunch conference, referencing the notion that investors can make money on worthless or overvalued assets as long as people are willing to bid them higher. Gates added that he's 'not long or short' crypto. And he mocked Bored Apes NFTs, joking that 'expensive digital images of monkeys' will 'improve the world immensely.'"
• Buckingham Palace art collection to go on gallery display for the first time - "Masterpieces by Rembrandt, Van Dyck and Canaletto to be shown at Queen’s Gallery while palace is renovated."
• Buying Art Doesn’t Have to Be Intimidating: Yes, There’s an App - The New York Times.

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• Caravaggio's violent 17th Century paintings led to Goodfellas & Mean Streets - "As the record crowds flocking to see his last painting show, Caravaggio's violent life and the cinematic intensity of his work have proved to be irresistible for centuries."
• Catalogue raisonnÉ - comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known artworks by an artist either in a particular medium or all media. The works are described in such a way that they may be reliably identified by third parties.
• Catch a Rising Star at the Auction House - "No longer does museum validation or scholarly attention determine a painting’s value. Now, the collectors’ hunger comes first, and institutions must follow."
• Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 - The Central Registry fulfils Washington Principle V1 on the setting up of a central repository of information on Nazi looting and contemporary efforts to research and resolve all outstanding issues. It is a charitable body operating under the auspices of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, an independent unit of the University of Oxford.
• Chiaroscuro - oil painting technique, developed during the Renaissance, that uses strong tonal contrasts between light and dark to model three-dimensional forms, often to dramatic effect.
• Christie’s auctions 'first digital-only artwork' for $70m - "Digital collage by Beeple was offered with a non-fungible token to guarantee authenticity and paid for in cryptocurrency."
• Christo: an appriciation. 'His gorgeous abstractions made you gawp with disbelief' - "From a curtain across Colorado to the wrapping up of everything from the Sydney coast to the Berlin Reichstag, his grandiose art caused wonder all over the world."
• Christo Javacheff, the artist who wrapped the world - "Once a penniless painter on the boulevards of Paris, nobody did art like Christo."
• Christo's Wrapped Coast: how the monumental Australian work was made - and changed art history - "Australian artist Imants Tillers was among more than 100 volunteers who helped wrap 90,000 square metres of plastic fabric around a Sydney coastline in 1969. It was not the easiest job, he remembers - or the safest."
• Civilisation - (1969). In full, Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark — is a television documentary series outlining the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. The series was produced by the BBC and aired in 1969 on BBC2. Both the television scripts and the accompanying book version were written by art historian Lord Clark (1903–1983), who also presented the series. The series is considered to be a landmark in British Television's broadcasting of the visual arts.
• Claude Monet: The paintings that changed the way we see London - "A new exhibition charts how Claude Monet's revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would 'irreversibly alter how London saw itself'."
• Claude Ruiz Picasso, youngest son of Spanish artist, dies aged 76 - The son of Picasso and French painter Françoise Gilot, who also died this year aged 101, managed his father’s hugely valuable estate until July.
• Climate activists attacking art ‘severely underestimate’ fragility of works, gallery directors warn - "Protesters have thrown soup and glued themselves to famous artworks around the world, prompting response by high-profile galleries including Moma and the Louvre. The statement was co-signed by almost 100 directors of high-profile institutions, many of which have been targeted by activists already."
• collection of peggy & david rockefeller auction - Christie's.
• COMMISSION FOR LOOTED ART IN EUROPE - founded in 1999. An international, expert and non-profit representative body which researches, identifies and recovers looted property on behalf of families, communities, institutions and governments worldwide.
• Conservators Uncover Marvelous Drawings Beneath Rembrandt’s ‘Night Watch,’ Revealing Changes He Made Along the Way - "An extended restoration project has also revealed some significant damage to the painting." artnet.
• Contrapposto - Italian term that means counterpoise. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs.
• Could a computer ever create better art than a human? - "Last year a portrait of Edmond Belamy sold for $432,000. A bit steep, you might think, for a picture of someone you've never heard of. And you won't have heard of the artist either, as the picture was created by an algorithm drawing on a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th Centuries."
• Could you spot a fake painting? Even experts are struggling - "Replicas of masterpieces are so good these days that it’s difficult to see the difference. Here’s why we should celebrate the fine art of high-tech fakery."
• cryptoart.wtf - "This website estimates the carbon footprint of CryptoArt NFTs as a result of blockchain transactions."
• Currier and Ives - was a successful American printmaking firm based in New York City from 1835 to 1907. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand colored. Lithographic prints could be reproduced quickly and purchased inexpensively, and the firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people."

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• DALL-E can now help you imagine what’s outside the frame of famous paintings - "OpenAI introduces native ‘outpainting’ for its AI image generator."
• Damien Hirst backdated at least 1,000 paintings from his NFT project, investigation reveals - "At least 1,000 Damien Hirst artworks were painted years later than claimed. Potentially thousands of signed works from Currency series were mass-produced by artist’s team after 2016, sources say."
• Damien Hirst formaldehyde animal works dated to 1990s were made in 2017 - "Three sculptures exhibited in galleries around world were artificially aged, sources claim."
• ‘Damn! This is a Caravaggio!’: the inside story of an old master found in Spain - "Art dealer Giancarlo Ciaroni attempted to buy painting listed at €1,500 for €500,000 - but discovered bewildered owners already had two offers of €3m."
• David Hockney among friends: a triumphant return to portraiture - The Guardian.
• David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives - The New York Times.
• David Hockney Goes High-Tech - "The British artist has always embraced new ways of working. With an immersive digital extravaganza, he is taking that to the next level."
• David Hockney interview: 'Your face belongs to other people' - The Telegraph.
• David Hockney on joy, longing & spring light - "‘I’m teaching the French how to paint Normandy!’"
• David Hockney painting poised to smash auction records - "'Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)' is set to be sold at the Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York on for an estimated price of $80 million."
• David Hockney Wouldn’t Paint the Queen. But He Made Her a Stained-Glass Window - The New York Times.
• David Hockney's pool painting set to sell for record amount for a living artist - "Christie’s estimates Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) could fetch $80m."
• Decoupage - the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and other decorative elements.
• deviantArt | dA - "The world's largest online art community." The largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts with over 26 million registered members, attracting 65 million unique visitors per month. As a community destination, deviantART is a platform that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works within a peer community dedicated to the arts.
• Digital NFT Art Is Booming - But at What Cost? - TIME Magazine.
• Dora Maar: how Picasso's weeping woman had the last laugh - "History remembers her as Picasso’s muse but Maar was an unflinching artist who infiltrated the surrealists’ boys club - and helped paint Guernica."
• Dozens of ‘Goyas’ are not by the master’s own hand, claims art historian - "The Spaniard’s paintings sell for millions, but a British expert now claims that many pieces attributed to him were by his assistants."
• Driven to Abstraction: the inside story of a $60m art forgery hoax - "For 15 years, one of New York’s most prestigious art galleries, Knoedler & Company, sold forged paintings - a new film explores how the art world fell for it."
• Droste effect - the effect of a picture appearing within itself, in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear.
• DÜrer drawing bought for $30 at yard sale worth more than $10 million, experts say - "A 16th century drawing by one of the key figures of the German Renaissance has been valued in excess of $10 million after it was initially purchased at a yard sale for just $30 in 2017."
• Dutch gallery removes racist artwork titles - The Telegraph.
• Dutch researchers coax secrets from Girl with a Pearl Earring - "Although offering insights into the artist’s technique, gallery has yet to solve Vermeer’s biggest mystery."

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• Edvard Munch: booze, bullets & breakdowns - "As a rare Munch show opens in Britain, we travel to Norway to find the forces that unleashed his macabre art – from flame-haired Medusas to primal screams."
• Enjoy the restored Night Watch, but don’t ignore the machine behind the Rembrandt - "The computer restoration of this masterpiece illustrates both the benefits and the dangers of AI."
• ERR | EINSATZSTAB REICHSLEITER ROSENBERG PROJECT - the database documents the plundered art objects that came into the hands of the ERR | Einstatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in German-occupied France and Belgium which were processed through the Jeu de Paume between late 1940 and August 1944.
• Essential Vermeer - since 2001. "The Essential Vermeer intends to inform, to inspire and to widen the appreciation of Vermeer’s art while stimulating the circulation of new points of view and promoting a more coordinated approach to Vermeer studies in scholarly circles."
• Europe’s great painter of loneliness - "Why Vilhelm Hammershøi’s is Europe’s great painter of loneliness. The Danish master Vilhelm Hammershøi and his sparse interiors remain an enigma. To coincide with a major new survey of his work in Paris, Cath Pound tries to unlock their mystery."
• EUROPEAN FINE ART FOUNDATION
• EUROPEANA - since 2008. "Think Culture." Currently provides access to over 50 million objects from European libraries, museums, archives, galleries, and audiovisual collections. More than 3,500 heritage institutions contribute cultural content in Europeana. Their number and geographic coverage are steadily growing.
• Everything you thought about 'The Scream' is wrong - CNN style.
• Experience The Met, Anywhere - 5,000 years of art online. How do you want to experience it today? The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
• Experts call for regulation after latest botched art restoration in Spain - "Immaculate Conception painting by Murillo reportedly cleaned by furniture restorer."
• Experts discover why Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' is fading - "Mystery solved: How to preserve 'The Scream,' Edvard Munch's iconic painting, for generations to come."
• Experts doubt da Vinci painted $450m Salvator Mundi - The Guardian.
• Eye condition behind 'da Vinci's genius' - "A rare eye condition helped Leonardo da Vinci paint distance and depth of objects on flat surfaces with the accuracy which he became famous for, new research claims."

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• 'Fake' Rembrandt came from artist's workshop and is possibly genuine - "Head of a Bearded Man revealed to be from same wood panel used for Rembrandt’s Andromeda."
• FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation - Art Theft.
• Fears looted Nazi art still hanging in Belgian & British galleries - "Leading art museums are reassessing their works after a Belgian journalist traced how a fascist sympathiser acquired a Jewish dealer’s collection."
• Fernando Botero: 1932-2023 - The Maestro of Volume & Monaco’s artistic gem - "In the panorama of the 20th century, where the lean and angular have so often been exalted, the voluptuous curves of Fernando Botero’s sculptures and canvases hold a unique fascination. It is with a mixture of sadness and profound respect that we bid adieu to this master of rotundity. His creations defy categorisation and stand out, quite literally, in bold relief against the flatness of much contemporary art. Despite his international renown, Botero’s relationship with the diminutive city state of Monaco remains one of the less celebrated chapters in his illustrious career. He died in Monaco on Friday, September 15, 2023."
• France & Netherlands to jointly buy rare Rembrandts - The Guardian.
• FranÇois Pinault fulfils Paris art gallery dream - "Contemporary collection finds home in former grain exchange 16 years after plan for Seine island failed."
• Frank Gehry's Dynamic Reflective Tower Opens to the Public for the First Time - "Frank Gehry's long awaited LUMA Arles has finally opened its doors to the public. The stainless-steel-clad tower with a twisting geometric structure sits in a 27-acre creative campus at the Parc des Ateliers in the French city of Arles, housing exhibition galleries, project spaces, and the LUMA’s research and archive facilities."
• French museum discovers half of its collection are fakes - The Telegraph.
• Frida Kahlo self-portrait fetches a record $34.9 million - "A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo has become the most expensive work by a Latin American artist ever to sell at auction, fetching $34.9 million in New York on Tuesday. The price achieved by the painting 'Diego y yo' ('Diego and I') more than tripled the previous record of $9.8 million, set by a work by Kahlo's husband - and the inspiration for her painting - Diego Rivera, in 2019."
• From Picasso & Hokusai's Prussian Blue to Vermeer's shade of red - "A history of art in 7 colours. Kelly Grovier traces the pigments that make up hidden layers in masterpieces - some of them toxic - from Picasso and Hokusai's Prussian Blue to Vermeer's shade of red."

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• Gainsborough's Blue Boy: The private life of a masterpiece - "Few other paintings in art history have become such a powerful symbol of non-conformist gender identity and same-sex attraction, writes Matthew Wilson."
• Gainsborough’s Blue Boy to return to UK after 100 years - "‘Masterpiece of British art’ heads to National Gallery in London thanks to loan from gallery in California."
• Gallery Hopes to Sell Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ Sculpture for US$4 Million - The New York Times.
• Getty Search Gateway - allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.
• Gilbert & George: ‘We’re art’s outsiders. We never wanted to eat lasagne at other people’s houses’ - "The artists, who never keep food at home, walk through the East End with Observer Food Monthly before lunch at their regular cafe."
• Golden Ratio / Divine Proportion - in mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. Some twentieth-century artists and architects, including Le Corbusier and Dalí, have proportioned their works to approximate the golden ratio - especially in the form of the golden rectangle, in which the ratio of the longer side to the shorter is the golden ratio - believing this proportion to be aesthetically pleasing.
• GOOGLE ART PROJECT - "Powered by Google". Online compilation of high-resolution images of artworks from galleries worldwide, as well as a virtual tour of the galleries in which they are housed.
• Greece recovers hundreds of stolen artefacts - "Greece says it has recovered hundreds of looted artefacts, including a 2nd-Century bronze statue of Alexander the Great. The trove was recovered after a legal battle with the company of a British antiquities dealer, officials said."
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• Grid | Frame Studio - since 2020. "Every Classic Deserves To Be Framed." In this digital technology era today, some digital products will be brought back your memories. Although it symbolized the wisdom of great person and delegate the revolution of technologies, they are getting quiet and disappearing gradually. We select the precious collection of marvellous article, unfold and restore in a collage frame, turn them into a tale of smart phone generation with value of art, the best choice for your collection permanently.
• Grimes releases her debut NFT collection 'WarNymph' - "Grimes, a multi-hyphenate artist, is well known for her music and visual language. She has taken form as a simulation combining gamer fantasy, anime and manga, science fiction, apocalyptic omens, and anachronistic fashion among other genres. Her most recent series of artwork, WarNymph, is realized with her collaborator, Mac Boucher."
• Grisaille - painting executed entirely in shades of grey or of another neutral greyish colour. It is particularly used in large decorative schemes in imitation of sculpture.

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• Han van Meegeren - (1889-1947). Dutch painter and portraitist and is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
• Handmade oil paintings reproductions, Museum quality oil painting reproductions - "Oil painting on canvas art, Everything we sell is 100% hand painted. We use only the finest oil paintings and best quality flax canvas."
• Have Art Auctions Become ‘Must-See TV’? - "Teleprompter! Makeup! Auction houses no longer play exclusively to the art world as viewers flock to YouTube, Instagram and TikTok to see how the one percent spends. The big three auction houses have since hired production companies and added more channels, transforming these events into what Stewart of Sotheby's calls 'must-see TV,' borrowing the famous advertising slogan from NBC."
• ‘He’s sabotaged his entire life for greed’: the $86m rise & fall of Inigo Philbrick - "With galleries in Mayfair and Miami, a Made in Chelsea romance, and art-world backing, this young art dealer looked like he had it made. So how has he ended up in prison?"
• Heir to art-dealing estate in court in major French fraud trial - Guy Wildenstein faces charges that he hid his fortune in offshore tax havens and a demand for £475m in back taxes.
• Henry Geldzahler - (1935-1994). Was a curator of contemporary art in the late 20th century, as well as a modern art art historian and art critic. He is best known for his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as New York City Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, and for his social role in the art world with a close relationship with contemporary artists.
• Her super rich clients trust her with millions of dollars - "The people making million-dollar art deals for the super rich."
• Hidden layer discovered in famous Rembrandt painting solves decades-old mystery - "When conservators used X-rays to peer below the varnish and paint of “The Night Watch,” they discovered something unexpected under its surface: a layer that was full of lead."
• Hidden portrait 'found under Mona Lisa', says French scientist - BBC.
• history of breasts in art - "From lactating Madonnas to disembodied orbs, a new exhibition surveys the depictions of breasts and asks - what about the women who own them?"
• Hockney & Van Gogh: How images of nature bring us joy - "In a new BBC Culture series that explores the ways that nature inspires artists, Cath Pound looks at the paintings of the natural world that can soothe and uplift us in difficult times."
• Hong Kong's richest man opens $380M Buddhist museum - "ong Kong's richest man is opening a multi-million-dollar Buddhist art museum at a monastery in the territory."
• Horny, hairy and horrifying: the scariest monsters in art - The Guardian.
• House of Faberge: The story behind the world's most luxurious eggs - CNN style.
• How a designer used AI & Photoshop to bring ancient Roman emperors back to life - "Transforming statues into photorealistic faces with AI."
• How a prolific forger fooled the art world - "The prolific forger whose fake 'Old Masters' fooled the art world. Eric Hebborn, who died in 1996, is widely considered to be the greatest art forger of modern times. By his own estimate, he created over 1,000 forgeries."
• how ancient cave art puts us in our place - "In our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, mysterious cave art of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating."
• How Andy Warhol overtook Picasso to become the most prized artist of the 20th century - "One of his portraits of Marilyn Monroe is expected to shatter records at auction next month. But was Andy Warhol just an ‘affectless hero’ of the media age? Or was he the greatest and most profound artist of his era?"
• How Banksy’s Prank Might Boost His Prices: ‘It’s a Part of Art History’ - "The enigmatic artist’s 'Girl With Balloon' sold for $1.4 million before being shredded by a rigged frame at Sotheby’s auction house in London on Friday."
• How DalÍ’s ‘lips’ sofa began life ... on the back of an envelope - "Newly opened archive of art patron’s papers reveals a previously unseen sketch for the surrealist work."
• how disaster sparked Napier's art deco renaissance - rebuilding a city in the midst of the Great Depression seemed impossible. But through artistry and enterprise, Napier became home to the highest concentration of art deco buildings in the world.
• How do art auctions really work? - "From the lead up to the sale to the moment the hammer comes down, former CEO of Christie's and art adviser Steven Murphy explains what happens at an auction."
• How Jonathan Yeo became Britain’s most-wanted portrait painter - "He didn’t go to art school, but royalty, supermodels and prime ministers all want Yeo to capture their likeness. So what happened when our art critic sat for him?"
• How loneliness & creativity can work together - "Artists and writers have long been drawn to solitude - but why is that, and what can we learn from them?"
• How offshore firm helped billionaire change the art world for ever - The Guardian.
• HOW ONE COMPANY TOOK OVER THE NFT TRADE - "The NFT gold rush made OpenSea into a $13 billion company - but can it stay on top?"
• How Picasso Became Picasso - The New York Times.
• How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired the surrealists - and was twisted by the Nazis - "The author of an acclaimed new book tells how Hitler used works by psychiatric patients in his culture war."
• How the Arts Can Benefit Your Mental Health (No Talent Required) - "Drawing, music and writing can elevate your mood. Here are some easy ways to welcome them into your life."
• How the Impressionists Became the World’s Favorite Painters & the Most Misunderstood - "Exactly 150 years ago, Monet, Degas, Renoir and their pals spurred an artistic revolution. Can we still see the defiance behind the beauty, and the schmaltz?"
• How to Get the Most out of Visiting World-Famous Sites - The New York Times.
• How to Hang Art on Your Bookshelves - "Display everything from paintings to plants. Make sure the art piece is proportional to the bookshelves. Consider hanging unique art. Use Command hooks or velcro strips."
• How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective - "Forgeries have got so good - and so costly - that Sotheby’s has brought in its own in-house fraud-busting expert."
• How we made the Wrapped Reichstag - Christo: ‘It took 24 years and we had to negotiate with six different presidents. Then it only stayed up for two weeks’

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• IARTBROKER - "iartbroker is an exciting way of doing business online for the art market. The aim of the site is simply to match buyers and sellers by using sophisticated software, technology and the power of the world wide web."
• ID-Art mobile app - Interpol - "Our first-ever app, called ID-Art, uses cutting-edge image-recognition software to help identify stolen cultural property, reduce illicit trafficking, and increase the chances of recovering stolen items."
• Immersive technology allows viewers to surround themselves in famous art - "From swimming pools to painted forests, visitors can immerse themselves in British artist David Hockney's work at a new creative space in London."
• ‘Indiana Jones of art world’ recovers stolen Van Gogh painting - "Dutch art detective traces lost artwork seized from museum near Amsterdam during Covid lockdown."
• Indiegogo - "The World's Funding Platform." Since 2008. International crowdfunding site where anyone can raise money for film, music, art, charity, small businesses, gaming, theater, and more.
• Inside the private collection of a Rothschild heir - "History's riches: Inside the private collection of a Rothschild heir."
• INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH | IFAR - non-profit organization which was established to channel and coordinate scholarly and technical information about works of art.
• Isamu Noguchi sculpture becomes White House's first artwork by an Asian American - "The piece, titled 'Floor Frame,' was unveiled by first lady Melania Trump in the Rose Garden on Friday. Designed in 1962, and cast in black patina and bronze the next year, the sculpture is composed of rectangular blocks that appear to sink and rise from the ground."
• Italian court blocks loan of Leonardo's famed 'Vitruvian Man' to Louvre - "Culture and heritage group Italia Nostra argued that Leonardo's "Vitruvian Man" sketch was too fragile to be transported to the Louvre, where it was expected to be included in an exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of the artist's death."
• Italians laughed at Leonardo da Vinci, the ginger genius - "New book reveals how the artist was lampooned in a 15th-century ‘comic strip’."

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• Jewish Heirs Take On an Art Foundation That Rights Nazi Wrongs - The New York Times.

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• Kanye West's Famous video: is it art? - The Guardian.
• Kenneth Clark - (1903-1983). British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians and aesthetes of his generation, writing a series of books that appealed to a wide public while remaining a serious scholar. In 1969, he achieved international fame as the writer, producer and presenter of the BBC Television series Civilisation, which pioneered television documentary series combining expert personalized narration with lavish photography on location.
• Kenneth Clark: a civilised man? - "Art historian Kenneth Clark moved in the highest social and cultural circles of Britain's postwar years. And yet it is his landmark 1969 series on western art, Civilisation, he is best known for. What made this chilly patrician so keen to communicate with the masses?"
• King's painter goes green for David Attenborough portrait - "Jonathan Yeo, whose depiction of Charles won approval from its royal subject, has now turned his palette to the 98-year-old TV naturalist for a Royal Society milestone."

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• Largest ever collection of Vermeer paintings unveiled in blockbuster show - "For the next four months, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is playing host to the biggest Vermeer exhibition of this, or any other, lifetime." 10 February - 4 June 2023.
• Larry Gagosian Bought Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe Portrait For A Record $195 Million - "When the gavel came down Monday evening at Christie’s for Andy Warhol’s 1964 portrait of Marilyn Monroe, the $195 million price broke multiple auction records, including a new high for the Pop master himself. Like Warhol and Monroe, the buyer, art dealer Larry Gagosian, is also a familiar face."
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• Le Freeport - "A high-end, ultra safe facility for the storage of valuable goods." LE FREEPORT sets new standards, demanded by investors and collectors alike: a purpose built facility combining cutting edge technology, efficient logistics, and an exhaustive range of expert services. LE FREEPORT is the ideal platform for securing, servicing and selling works of art and other valuables. Luxembourg & Singapore.
• LEGO has reimagined Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' in 2,316 little bricks - "When New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) bought 'The Starry Night' from a private collector in 1941, the painting was not well known. In the 81 years since, Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece has gone on to inspire everything from a hit single for singer Don McLean in 1971 to mass-produced merchandise including scarves, umbrellas and water bottles."
• Leonardo da Vinci feud: The 'earlier' Mona Lisa mystery - "A painting of the Mona Lisa hangs above a fireplace in a London flat in the 1960s. Is this picture not only by Leonardo da Vinci, but also an earlier version of the world famous portrait that hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris?"
• Leonardo da Vinci five centuries on: Louvre in Paris opens long-awaited exhibition - "It took more than a decade to prepare and was almost thwarted by a diplomatic row. Now, one of the world's most expensive art exhibitions - to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death - is finally opening to the public."
• Leonardo da Vinci may have painted another 'Mona Lisa.' Now, there's a legal battle over who owns it - CNN style.
• Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs - The New York Times.
• Leonardo da Vinci paintings analysed for DNA to solve grave mystery - The Telegraph.
• Leonardo Da Vinci project finds 14 living male descendants - "Researchers hope to understand genius of artist by reconstructing his genealogical profile."
• Leonardo Da Vinci's living relatives found: painter, engineer, Oscar nominee - The Guardian.
• Leonardo da Vinci's lost masterpieces - "The Renaissance man was as much a scientist as an artist. On the 500th anniversary of his death, Cath Pound explores how Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings reveal his genius."
• Leonardo v Rembrandt: who's the greatest? - "As the masters celebrate big anniversaries, who reaches more powerfully across the centuries – and who deserves to hit the canvas?"
• Lillie P. Bliss - (1864-1931). Lillie P. Bliss, was an American art collector and patron. At the beginning of the 20th century, she was one of the leading collectors of modern art in New York. In 1929, she played an essential role in the founding of the Museum of Modern Art. After her death, 150 works of art from her collection served as a foundation to the museum and formed the basis of the in-house collection. These included works by artists such as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani.
• Line of beauty - a term and a theory in art or aesthetics used to describe an S-shaped curved line (a serpentine line) appearing within an object, as the boundary line of an object, or as a virtual boundary line formed by the composition of several objects. According to this theory, S-shaped curved lines signify liveliness and activity and excite the attention of the viewer as contrasted with straight lines, parallel lines, or right-angled intersecting lines, which signify stasis, death, or inanimate objects.
• List of most expensive paintings - Wikipedia.
• List of stolen paintings - Wikipedia.
• Looking at Edvard Munch, Beyond ‘The Scream’ - The New York Times.
• Looking at van Gogh, 125 Years Later - The New York Times.
• lootedart.com - Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945.
• Lost Art Internet Database - since 1994. Run by the Koordinierungsstelle Magdeburg, Germany’s central office for the documentation of lost cultural property and registers cultural objects which as a result of persecution under the Nazi dictatorship and the Second World War were relocated, moved or seized, especially from Jewish owners.
• Lost, stolen, blown up & fed to pigs: the greatest missing masterpieces - The Guardian.
• Louis Vauxcelles - (1870-1943). Born Louis Meyer, was an influential French Jewish art critic. He is credited with coining the terms Fauvism (1905), and Cubism (1908).
• Louvre Abu Dhabi - "The tale of the world’s newest cultural monument is tied to one of its oldest, though their evolutions bear little resemblance."
• Louvre's missing pyramid & the magic of trompe l’oeil - The Guardian.
• Luxury Brands Are Taking Over the Street Art Scene - "Gucci, Louboutin and Fendi are hiring graffiti artists in a bid to fit in with street culture??? - and score points on social media."
• Luxury Investments Around the World Compared - infographic - "Do you enjoy the finer things in life? For many of the world’s wealthy individuals, acquiring luxury goods such as art, fine wine, and watches is a passion. Unlike traditional investments in financial assets, luxury goods can be difficult to value if one does not have an appreciation for their form. A rare painting, for example, does not generate cash flows, meaning its value is truly in the eye of the beholder. To gain some insight into the market for luxury goods, this infographic takes data from Knight Frank’s 2021 Wealth Report to compare the preferences of nine global regions."

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• Madrid’s new museum is a modern mecca for old-world art lovers - "Five centuries of royal collections will go on display in the Spanish capital next month in a long-awaited £146m project."
• Magnus - "Your access to the art world." Take a photo of an artwork and instantly know the artist, title and price. Get the app. It’s free!
• Man Ray's 'Le Violon d'Ingres' photograph sells for record $12.4 million - "The original print of the masterpiece, widely considered to be Man Ray's most famous work, sold for $12.4 million, smashing sale estimates. Prior to the sale, it was expected to fetch between $5-7 million, the highest estimate for a single photograph in auction history, according to Christie's, which sold the work."
• Mannerism - style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, lasting until about 1580 in Italy. Stylistically, Mannerism encompasses a variety of approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals associated with artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and early Michelangelo. Where High Renaissance art emphasizes proportion, balance, and ideal beauty, Mannerism exaggerates such qualities, often resulting in compositions that are asymmetrical or unnaturally elegant.
• Maquette - (French word for scale model, sometimes referred to by the Italian names plastico or modello) is a small scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture.
• Marie-Laure de Noailles - (1902-1970). Was one of the 20th century's most daring and influential patrons of the arts, noted for her associations with Salvador Dalí, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Ned Rorem, Man Ray, Luis Buñuel, Francis Poulenc, Wolfgang Paalen, Jean Hugo, Jean-Michel Frank and others as well as her tempestuous life and eccentric personality.
• Masterpiece found in attic could sell for $171M - "Lost Caravaggio painting found in attic could fetch $171 million at auction."
• match the famous paintings to their frames – quiz - The Guardian.
• Maulstick - stick with a soft leather or padded head used by painters to support the hand holding the paintbrush.
• Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana artwork fetches US$5.2m at New York auction - "Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun bought one of three editions of the viral 2019 work, describing it as ‘a cultural phenomenon’."
• Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Artist’s Daughter & Inspiration, Dies at 87 - "As a girl she brought out a childlike quality in Picasso. As an adult she became an authority on his works."
• Medieval treasure, Nazi pressure: Germany struggles to keep up with demands of its past - "The Nazis seized an estimated 20 percent of art in Europe, with scores of items still not returned to the families that owned them."
• Meet the Nigerian artist illustrating the human experience with a ballpoint pen - "From a distance, Jacqueline Suowari's larger-than-life portraits look like monochromatic photographs overlaid with colorful graphics. Upon closer inspection, you see these dramatic images are the culmination of thousands of tiny lines made using a simple ballpoint pen."
• Meet the world’s top art collectors - "Who are the modern Medicis?"
• Meet Warhol, Again, in This Brilliant Whitney Show - "A sweeping retrospective shows a personal side of the Pop master - his hopes, fears, faith - and reasserts his power for a new generation, Holland Cotter writes in his review."
• Michelangelo: ‘Secret room’ decorated by Michelangelo to open to the public in Italy - "The tiny space sits beneath the Medici Chapels in Florence, where Michelangelo sculpted intricate tombs for members of the Medici family behind the church of San Lorenzo in the Sagrestia Nuova, or New Sacristry."
• Microsoft co-founder’s collection poised to raise $1bn in ‘largest art auction in history’ - "Proceeds from sale of 150 works owned by the late billionaire Paul Allen will go to charity."
• Millions of Square Feet, Billions of Dollars: An Arts Universe Expands - The New York Times.
• Mind my Picasso... superyacht owners struggle to protect art - "Billionaires try to cut risk to priceless paintings from flying champagne corks."
• ‘Mind-blowing’: Ai-Da becomes first robot to paint like an artist - "AI algorithms prompt robot to interrogate, select, and decision-make to create a painting."
• Mise en abyme - a formal technique in which an image contains a smaller copy of itself, in a sequence appearing to recur infinitely.
• Missed out on Vermeer? Try these arty gems across Europe instead - "With the Amsterdam blockbuster all sold out, our writer picks 10 alternative arty must-sees in Europe - all reachable by train."
• Missing Picasso Found? Photo Suggests Philippines’ Imelda Marcos Might Still Have It - "What might be a lost painting by Pablo Picasso was spotted at the home of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines and the widow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos - who allegedly embezzled billions of dollars from the Philippines before he was ousted - after her son Ferdinand Marcos Jr. won the presidential election this week. The Marcos family is believed to have embezzled as much as $10 billion from the Philippines, the majority of which has never been recovered."
• MIT algorithm finds subtle connections between art pieces - "Researchers developed the system to compare works at the MET and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum."
• Modigliani breaks estimate records - The Telegraph.
• Modigliani sets world record with estimate in excess of $150m - The Guardian.
• Mona Lisa based on Da Vinci's gay lover, art detective claims - The Telegraph.
• Mona Lisa for $60K? The curious market for Old Masters replicas - "To an untrained eye, the 'Mona Lisa' up for auction at Sotheby's next week is indistinguishable from its namesake hanging in the Louvre."
• 'Mona Lisa' has been caked in attempted vandalism stunt - "The 'Mona Lisa' was the subject of attempted vandalism on Sunday when a visitor to the world-famous Louvre museum in Paris smeared frosting all over the Renaissance-era painting's protective glass."
• Mona Lisa is moving - what does it take to keep her safe? - "She's one of the world's most recognisable faces, with a smile that's been printed on mugs, bags and T-shirts across the globe. But she's only left her country a handful of times, and has stayed in the same room for 14 years."
• Mona Lisa myth debunked - "Researchers debunk myth about Mona Lisa's eyes."
• Mona Lisa was set in this surprising Italian town, geologist claims - "Ann Pizzorusso, who is both a geologist and an art historian specializing in Leonardo and the Renaissance era, believes Lake Como, the glacial lake dating back around 10,000 years, is in the background of the Mona Lisa."
• Mona Lisa's Tuscan villa on sale for £16 million - The Telegraph.
• Monet's dreamy haze was actually pollution, study finds - "Scientists confirm long held theory about what inspired Monet."
• Monotyping - Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to acrylic glass. The image is then transferred onto a sheet of paper by pressing the two together, usually using a printing-press.
• Monuments Men - Feature Film.
• MONUMENTS MEN FOUNDATION - "For the Preservation of Art."
• Morellian method - based on clues offered by trifling details rather than identities of composition and subject matter or other broad treatments that are more likely to be seized upon by students, copyists and imitators.
• Mossack Fonseca's role in fight over painting stolen by Nazis - The Guardian.
• Most detailed ever photograph of the night watch - "The Rijksmuseum is publishing the largest and most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch on its website, making it possible to zoom in on individual brushstrokes and even particles of pigment in the painting. The Rijksmuseum’s imaging team made this photograph of The Night Watch from a total of 528 exposures. The 24 rows of 22 pictures were stitched together digitally with the aid of neural networks. The final image is made up of 44.8 gigapixels (44,804,687,500 pixels), and the distance between each pixel is 20 micrometres (0.02 mm). This enables the scientists to study the painting in detail remotely. The image will also be used to accurately track any future ageing processes taking place in the painting."
• Mozart childhood portrait sold for €4m at Paris auction - "A rare portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart aged 13 has fetched €4m at a Christie's auction in Paris - far more than had been expected."
• Munich Art Trove - Lost Art Internet Database.
• My art was used to sell cars - but I’m fighting back - "An advert for Volkswagens that featured my artwork about refugees illustrates corporations’ focus on profit over people."
• My father, Picasso: secret daughter tells of posing in pink bootees - "A book of family memories paints the artist as doting dad, rather than the callous, ageing womaniser depicted by others."

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• Narcissists are more likely to make money in art - The Telegraph.
• National Gallery & Courtauld ‘knew art restorer had links to Nazis’ - "Museums lobbied for German to stay in Britain in 1947 despite information on his work with SS."
• Nazi plunder - Wikipedia.
• Neanderthals were painting caves in Europe long before modern humans, study finds - "Whether Neanderthals thought symbolically and had an artistic sensibility has been a question that has vexed experts in human evolution. But evidence is mounting that our Stone Age cousins were our cognitive equals and created forms of art in Europe long before Homo sapiens were on the scene."
• 'New Rembrandt' to be unveiled in Amsterdam - 3D printed painting made by software that distilled the features of a Rembrandt.
• New York’s Arts for All - "A library card opens the door to culture in New York."
• NFT, explained - The Verge.
• NFT News - "NFTs are seemingly everywhere - and now they're all right here."
• NFT: The vast majority of NFTs are now worthless, new report shows - "Two years after tech trend that swept up artists and celebrities, researchers estimate 23 million people hold worthless investments."
• NFTs Are Shaking Up the Art World - But They Could Change So Much More - "NFTs are having their big-bang moment: collectors and speculators have spent more than $200 million on an array of NFT-based artwork, memes and GIFs in the past month alone, according to market tracker NonFungible.com, compared with $250 million throughout all of 2020. And that was before the digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, sold a piece for a record-setting $69 million at famed auction house Christie’s on March 11 - the third highest price ever fetched by any currently living artist, after Jeff Koons and David Hockney."
• NFTs are suddenly everywhere, but they have some big problems - "In the simplest terms, NFTs transform digital works of art and other collectibles into one-of-a-kind, verifiable assets that can be traded on the blockchain."
• NFTs market hits $22bn as craze turns digital images into assets - "Critics of non-fungible tokens say they are symptomatic of unsustainable digital gold rush."
• Night Watch comes in: research into Rembrandt reports - "After more than 25 different scanning methods, two and a half years and a team of researchers working despite coronavirus behind a glass box, Operation Night Watch has reported its findings. The Rijksmuseum has announced that its unprecedented research effort into Rembrandt’s Night Watch has shed important light on how Rembrandt worked, damage to the painting over the years, and how to restore it."
• non-fungible token (NFT) - special type of cryptographic token which represents something unique; NFTs are thus not mutually interchangeable.This is in contrast to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, and many network or utility tokens, that are fungible in nature. Art was an early use case for NFTs, and blockchain in general, because of the ability of NFTs to provide proof of authenticity and ownership of digital art, a medium that designed for ease of mass reproduction, and unauthorized distribution through the Internet.
• Non-Objective Art - defines a type of abstract art that is usually, but not always, geometric and aims to convey a sense of simplicity and purity.

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• ōkubi-e - Japanese portrait print or painting in the ukiyo-e genre showing only the head or the head and upper torso.
• On the Trail of a Lover Boy in the Age of Enlightenment - "Seducer, scammer, courtier: Giacomo Casanova hovers like a governing spirit over the art of the 18th century in a sumptuous new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts."
• One of the last privately-owned Botticelli portraits could sell for over $80M - "A 15th-century painting by early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli is expected to sell for over $80 million when it goes under the hammer in New York next year."
• One of the World’s Greatest Art Collections Hides Behind This Fence - The New York Times.
• OPEN ART COLLECTION - worldwide social art network for Artists, Collectors and Professionals. "Meeting the right people in the art world just got easier."
• Open Content Program - The Getty. "The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images (approx. 4,600) to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required."
• OPEN CULTURE - "The best free cultural & educational media on the web."
• Open-source encyclopedia puts 10,000 years of Indian art history in one place - "From prehistoric Bhimbetka cave paintings to works by contemporary art stars like Atul Dodiya and Shilpa Gupta, India has a rich cultural heritage dating back over 10,000 years. So, it came as a surprise to one of the country's leading collectors, the textile tycoon and philanthropist Abhishek Poddar, that there was no single source of authoritative information on the subcontinent's art history. Hoping to address this deficit, he has helped launch an encyclopedia of South Asian art with over 2,000 entries spanning famous artifacts, folk traditions, craft techniques and cultural institutions from the region."

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• paintings that changed the way we see London - "A new exhibition charts how Claude Monet's revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would 'irreversibly alter how London saw itself'."
• Pantone's Color of the Year Is a Comforting Start to 2020. Here’s What to Know About the Choice - "Pantone felt that the color highlighted dependability, trustworthiness, credibility and constancy - all traits that are valued in the fast-paced, high-stress situations of the current world."
• Paris Is Rising as an Art Market Hub, With Some Way Left to Go - "Sotheby’s opened a new salesroom and international collectors are arriving for the inaugural Art Basel Paris fair. But visiting is one thing; buying is another."
• Passage - Alfred Barr (1902-1981) defined Passage as "The merging of planes with space by leaving one edge unpainted or light in tone."
• Paul Allen: Largest art auction ever to sell Microsoft co-founder's $1bn collection - "An estimated $1bn worth of art belonging to the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will be sold at the largest art auction in history. The collection includes masterpieces by Botticelli, Renoir, David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein. Christie's auction house said proceeds of the November sale would be given to charity, as Mr Allen wished."
• Pentimento - alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his or her mind as to the composition during the process of painting.
• People try to steal Banksy mural in Ukraine - "Police make arrests and secure image of gas-masked woman in dressing gown sprayed on Hostomel wall."
• Peter Lane: ‘Go See My Work at the Cartier Store’ - "Peter Lane’s ceramic murals and sculptures help create the atmosphere at hotels, flagships and private homes around the world."
• Picasso pilgrimage: a Spanish art trail marking 50 years since his death - "From Málaga to Madrid, there’s a fiesta of special exhibitions this year in the places where the artist lived and worked."
• Picasso's muses: artist's own collection starring six women he loved on sale for the first time - The Telegraph.
• Piet Mondrian & the six lines that made a masterpiece - "A 1922 painting by Piet Mondrian challenged art history, defining a new era, writes Deborah Nicholls-Lee, as two exhibitions celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth."
• Police recover 500-year-old stolen copy of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi' - "A 16th-century copy of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi,' the world's most expensive painting, has been recovered by Italian police after it was stolen from a museum in Naples."
• Polish government buys art collection including a da Vinci for a fraction of its real value - The Telegraph.
• Private passions: the sexual secrets hidden in the world’s greatest art - "It has been suggested that a portrait by the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck hides a secret about his love life. If so, he is part of a history that stretches from Caravaggio to Kahlo."

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• Queen of Christmas: the wondrous snowy landscapes that made Grandma Moses as big as Jackson Pollock - "The upstate New York farmer took up painting at 76 and was soon a star, her ‘old-timey’ scenes proving perfect for stamps, curtains and Christmas cards – saving her from a life of raising chickens."

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• Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds - "Scientists in Netherlands using eye-tracking and MRI scans found ‘enormous difference’ between genuine works and posters."
• Rembrandt & slavery: did the great painter have links to this abhorrent trade? - "No artist is more celebrated for their compassion and empathy. So why has the Dutch master’s work been included in a shocking new show linking art and the slave trade?"
• Rembrandt at Buckland - The original 'selfie' - Buckland Abbey, U.K.
• Rembrandt: Rijksmuseum begins live Night Watch restoration - "An Amsterdam museum has begun the biggest ever restoration of Rembrandt's famous painting The Night Watch and is inviting people to watch live."
• Rembrandt’s Holland: exploring Amsterdam & Leiden - "It is 350 years since the artist’s death but visiting these two Dutch cities you can still feel the echoes of his work, and follow in his footsteps."
• Rembrandt’s Night Watch uncropped by AI 300 years after it was trimmed - "A marriage of art and artificial intelligence has enabled Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to recreate parts of the iconic 'Night Watch' painting that were snipped off 70 years after Rembrandt finished it."
• Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ is being restored & the public are invited to watch - "After five years of exhaustive research, a team of eight restorers are starting a grand preservation project on Rembrandt’s 1642 masterpiece, ‘The Night Watch’ at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam."
• Renaissance painting found in kitchen in France sells for €24m - "Christ Mocked by Italian artist Cimabue had been valued at €4m-€6m before auction. An tiny early Renaissance masterpiece found in a French woman’s kitchen during a house clearance has fetched more than €24m at auction, making it the most expensive medieval painting ever sold."
• RenÉ Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumiÈres’ sells for record $121 million - "As one of the largest paintings in a succession of 27 works all titled ‘L’empire des lumières’('The Empire of Light'), the 1954 canvas is well known among 20th century art experts for its scale, pristine condition and subtle details."
• Riddle of a Scandalous French Painting Is Solved, Researcher Says - "For over 150 years, the famous painting’s origin was as mysterious as its subject - a meticulous close-up of a woman’s genitals - was considered unspeakable. No head, no arms, one breast: only a torso, finely rendered. Who posed for this notorious nonportrait by the celebrated troublemaker of 19th-century French realist painting, Gustave Courbet?"
• Robert Hughes - (1938-2012). Australian-born art critic, writer. He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of The New York Times as "the most famous art critic in the world." Hughes earned widespread recognition for his book and television series on Modern art, The Shock of the New, and for his longstanding position as art critic with TIME magazine. Known for his contentious critiques of art and artists, Hughes was generally conservative in his tastes, although he did not belong to a particular philosophical camp. Raising criticism to the level of art, his writing was noted for its power and elegance.
• ROBERT WITTMAN INC. - security, protection and recovery of your art investments.
• Rodin's 'Thinker' fetches $11.1 million at Paris auction - "A casting of Auguste Rodin's 'The Thinker' sculpture, one of the most iconic works of art in the world, sold for 10.7 million euros ($11.14 million) at a Paris auction on Thursday. The auction house, Christie's, had estimated the casting, one of roughly 40 authentic outstanding ones, would fetch between 9 and 14 million euros. The record for a Rodin 'Thinker' was set at a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2013, when one sold for $15.3 million."
• Roman Abramovich: ‘You could fill a museum with it’: the $963m Roman Abramovich art collection revealed - "Leak suggests the oil and gas tycoon and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova amassed one of the most significant collections of modern art in private hands."
• Rose Valland - (1898-1980). Was a French art historian, member of the French Resistance, captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. She secretly recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France; and, working with the French Resistance, she saved thousands of works of art.
• Rothko case - protracted legal dispute between Kate Rothko, the daughter of the painter Mark Rothko; the painter's estate executors; and the directors of his gallery, Marlborough Fine Art. The revelations in the case of greed, abuses of power and conspiracy by financial interests in the art world were described by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court of New York state, as "manifestly wrongful and indeed shocking," serving as a cautionary tale for both artists and their gallerists.
• Rubens painting written off by Met Museum & valued at £22,000 now expected to make millions at auction - The Guardian.
• Russian billionaire loses Sotheby's art fraud lawsuit involving ‘Salvator Mundi’ - "A federal jury on Tuesday ruled in favor of Sotheby's at a trial in which the Russian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of defrauding him out of tens of millions of dollars in art sales."

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• Salvator Mundi: World’s most expensive painting to form centrepiece of ‘Saudi Louvre’ - "Mohammed bin Salman intends to build a gallery in Riyadh to display Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and the most costly artwork ever sold at auction."
• Saudi Crown Prince MBS Pressed The Louvre To Lie About His Fake Leonardo Da Vinci, Per New Documentary - "A new feature-length documentary set to debut next week on French TV alleges that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman pressured the Louvre to lie about the authenticity of a painting he had purchased in order to spare him the public humiliation of having spent $450 million on a fake."
• Scientists Discover a Second ‘Mona Lisa Smile’ - Discover.
• Secrets & lies: The role of restorers in art crime - "'Without restorers to disguise stolen relics, there would be no laundered items for antiquities traffickers to sell,' said Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance in a press release announcing Smith's indictment. 'Behind every antiquities trafficking ring preying upon cultural heritage for profit, there is someone reassembling and restoring these looted pieces to lend the criminal enterprise a veneer of legitimacy.'"
• Scientists identify secret ingredient in Leonardo da Vinci paintings - "'Old Masters' such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt may have used proteins, especially egg yolk, in their oil paintings, according to a new study.Trace quantities of protein residue have long been detected in classic oil paintings, though they were often ascribed to contamination. A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications found the inclusion was likely intentional - and sheds light on the technical knowledge of the Old Masters, the most skilled European painters of the 16th, 17th, or early 18th century, and the way they prepared their paints."
• See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer review - how to really read a picture - "In these seductively curious essays, Dyer scrutinises images and photographers, unearthing hidden truths and a sense of the uncanny."
• Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer - "The violence of his era can be found in his serene masterpieces - if you know where to look." The New York Times.
• Seeing is believing: the trick of the trompe l’oeil in art - Europeana Blog.
• Seeing MirÓ’s Majorca Studio, Just the Way He Kept It - The New York Times.
• Seicento - Italian history and culture during the 17th century. The seicento saw the end of the Renaissance movement in Italy and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation and the Baroque era.
• Sfumato - one of the four canonical painting modes of Renaissance art (alongside cangiante, chiaroscuro, and unione). Sfumato translated into English means soft, vague or blurred.
• Shredded Banksy artwork sells for $25.4 million at auction - "A work by British street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold at auction three years ago fetched almost 18.6 million pounds ($25.4 million) on Thursday - a record for the artist, and close to 20 times its pre-shredded price. 'Love is in the Bin' was offered by Sotheby’s in London, with a presale estimate of 4 million pounds to 6 million pounds ($5.5 million to $8.2 million)."
• Significant form - refers to an aesthetic theory developed by English art critic Clive Bell which specified a set of criteria for what qualified as a work of art.
• Simon de Pury Steps Down from Helm of Phillips de Pury - "Just as the art world is disappearing for the holidays, Phillips de Pury & Company, the struggling boutique auction house, released an announcement that Simon de Pury - its chairman, principal auctioneer and the face of the company for the last 12 years - is stepping down. In a separate e-mail his wife, Michaela, who has been a senior director there, announced her departure too."
• Sketch dismissed as Rembrandt ‘crude imitation’ revealed to be genuine - "The Raising of the Cross was thought to be by a follower of the Dutch master, but experts now say it is by Rembrandt himself."
• Slade Professor of Fine Art - the oldest professorship of art at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and London.
• Social sculpture - phrase to describe an expanded concept of art that was invented by the artist and co-founder of the German Green Party, Joseph Beuys. Beuys created the term "social sculpture" to embody his understanding of art's potential to transform society. As a work of art, a social sculpture includes human activity that strives to structure and shape society or the environment. The central idea of a social sculptor is an artist who creates structures in society using language, thoughts, actions, and objects.
• Society of Dilettanti - founded in 1734. Society of noblemen and scholars which sponsors the study of ancient Greek and Roman art, and the creation of new work in the style. The Society has 60 members, elected by secret ballot. An induction ceremony is held at a London club. It makes annual donations to the British Schools in Rome and Athens, and a separate fund set up in 1984 provides financial assistance for visits to classical sites and museums.
• Sotheby's Fine Art Storage Facility
• Sotheby's Institute of Art - since 1969. An institution of higher education devoted to the study of art and its markets with campuses in London (UK), New York City and Los Angeles (USA). The Institute offers full time accredited Master’s degrees as well as a range of postgraduate certificates, summer, semester and online courses, public programmes and executive education.
• SOTHEBY’S LAUNCHES ITS FIRST EVER NFT AUCTION WITH ANONYMOUS ARTIST PAK - "Last month, Sotheby’s announced plans to collaborate with the anonymous digital artist Pak for its first NFT sale. ‘The Fungible’ collection will go live on Nifty Gateway at 12pm EST today until April 14."
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• Stenciling - in the visual arts, a technique for reproducing designs by passing ink or paint over holes cut in cardboard or metal onto the surface to be decorated.
• Stendhal syndrome - or Florence syndrome, is a psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to an experience of great personal significance, particularly viewing art.
• Stolen artefacts stashed by British art dealer are returned to Italy - The Guardian.
• Street Photography: Leica meets Fibonacci & the golden ratio - "Forget the rule of thirds. My new favourite compositional device is the golden ratio. But what does a formula described by a 13th century Italian mathematician have to do with taking pictures? And what on earth does a recursive spiral have to do with street photography? It’s all about the intersection of mathematics, history, and art. Read on to dive deeper into the mystery."
• SuperRare - since 2017. "SuperRare is a marketplace to collect and trade unique, single-edition digital artworks. Each artwork is authentically created by an artist in the network, and tokenized as a crypto-collectible digital item that you can own and trade. You can think of SuperRare like Instagram meets Christies. A new way to interact with art, culture, and collecting on the internet!"
• Swiping a Priceless Antiquity ... With a Scanner & a 3-D Printer - The New York Times.
• Sydney's $230M gallery complex - "'Most significant' arts venue since Opera House: Sydney's $230M gallery complex opens. Now known as the Tank, this 24,000-square-foot former naval bunker has been transformed into an exhibition space as part of an ambitious redevelopment of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Dubbed the Sydney Modern Project, the 344-million-Australian-dollar ($230 million) expansion has been described by state officials as the city's 'most significant cultural development' since the famous Opera House opened almost 50 years ago."

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• Tales From the Warhol Factory - "In each of three successive spaces called the Factory, Andy Warhol created movies, paintings, time capsules and psychosexual dramas with a half-life of many decades. Here his collaborators recall the places, the times and the man."
• Technology Invites a Deep Dive Into Art - The New York Times.
• Tehran museum unveils western art masterpieces hidden for decades - "‘Deviant’ works by artists including Picasso and Warhol return to display at exhibition in Iranian capital."
• TERMINARTORS - "The world's largest artist, artwork and museum database!" The first community-based interactive painting gallery in the world. From the medieval era to the most recent trends, you will find tens of thousands of carefully categorized paintings, artists, and museums.
• Test Your Focus: Can You Spend 10 Minutes With One Painting? - "Focus Is a Skill. We’ll Help You Practice."
• The art of Yves Saint Laurent: design house marks 60th anniversary - "Five Paris museums to display fashion designer’s creations with artwork that inspired them."
• The Beatles created a painting together while on tour in Japan. Now it’s up for auction - "That painting, believed by some experts to be the only artwork jointly made by all four Beatles (or at least signed by all four), will be up for sale at Christie’s auction house in New York on February 1."
• The 'blackest' black: How a color controversy sparked a years-long art feud - "For decades, the idea that somebody can 'own' a color has been a contentious one."
• the calm & chaos of an artist's studio – in pictures - The Guardian.
• The Da Vinci mystery: why is his $450m masterpiece really being kept under wraps? - "When the unveiling of the long-lost Salvator Mundi was cancelled last month, there were cries of fake. But is there more to the controversy surrounding the world’s most expensive painting?"
• The fine line between art & pornography - "For more than 100 years, activists have drawn attention to the depiction of female nudes in art. Is it time to look at them with fresh eyes, asks Lizzie Enfield."
• The Gardner Museum & the biggest art heist in history - "In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, 12 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a disturbance call, and the thieves bound the guards and looted the museum over the next hour."
• The government owns £3.5 billion worth of art - but only 3 per cent of it is on display.
• The great art cover-up: Renaissance nudity still has power to shock - The Guardian.
• The Great Wealth Transfer Is Encouraging Older Collectors to Sell Off Their Art Collections - "Over the next quarter century, some $73 trillion dollars will be passed from America’s Boomer generation to its Gen X and Millennial children in what has been dubbed 'The Great Wealth Transfer.' About half of that figure will go to just the top 1.5 percent of households, aka America’s collecting class."
• The husband-and-wife forgers who fooled the art market & made millions - "After decades of painting fakes, falsifying evidence and diligently covering their tracks, it was a single act of carelessness that brought the Beltracchis' deception to light."
• the incredible stories behind recovered Nazi-looted art - "In a new exhibition, the difficult process of protecting art throughout and after the second world war is examined and celebrated."
• The Inheritance Case That Could Unravel an Art Dynasty - "How a widow’s legal fight against the Wildenstein family of France has threatened their storied collection - and revealed the underbelly of the global art market." The New York Times.
• The Little Mermaid - "Now you can have her in your own garden or hall. The original Little Mermaid made by Edvard Eriksen. The Little Mermaid is sold in 3 sizes S, M and L - All made in bronze. The Little Mermaid is delivered all over the world."
• The lost Louvre of Uzbekistan: the museum that hid art banned by Stalin - "This museum in a bleak outpost has one of the world’s greatest collections of avant-garde art, rescued from Stalin’s clutches by an electrician. But now it needs a rescue of its own."
• The man on the phone - "What's it like making history's highest auction bid? In November 2017 at Christie's New York, Alex Rotter uttered a phrase never before heard at an art auction: 'Four hundred million.'"
• The man who owns 25,000 artworks & 15,000 fine wine bottles - "History's riches: Inside the private collection of a Rothschild heir."
• The masterpieces stolen by the Nazis - "The journeys of looted artworks have powerful stories that are being explored in a new exhibition, writes Diane Cole."
• The Mirrors Behind Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits - The New York Times.
• The Most Famous Pop Artist You Don’t Know - The New York Times.
• The Most Stolen Artwork of All Time - "When an entire cathedral has been searched six times and its floor x-rayed 10 meters deep to try and find a stolen painting, you know it's an important work of art that's gone missing."
• The Most Valuable Works of Stolen Art No One Can Find - ABC News.
• The Mystery of the missing Leonardo. Where is Da Vinci’s $450m Jesus? - "The Louvre has asked to loan Salvator Mundi for a major exhibition - but many doubt the much-disputed work will make an appearance."
• The Nazi art dealer who supplied Hermann GÖring and operated in a shadowy art underworld long after the war - "A new book by Jonathan Petropoulos explores Bruno Lohse’s devotion to Hitler’s number two and also raises the question of what happened to 47 works Lohse had when he died."
• The Night Watch: Rembrandt painting to be restored under world's gaze - "Art lovers will be able to watch conservators restoring work in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and via web livestream."
• The old paintings revealing what food used to look like - "What did our food look like hundreds of years ago? Art history may have the answers."
• The reason no one smiles in old paintings - "Why so serious? The reason we rarely see smiles in art history."
• The Red List - since 2012. "Designed as a trend book, the Red List offers total immersion in the world of visual arts so as to build bridges between historic and contemporary creativity."
• The secret to painting a portrait of 35 subjects - The Telegraph.
• The Shock of the New - (1980). Documentary television series written and presented by Robert Hughes produced by the BBC in association with Time-Life Films. It addressed the development of modern art since the Impressionists and was accompanied by a book of the same name; its combination of insight, wit and accessibility are still widely praised.
• The story behind the only known painting by The Beatles, as it goes up for sale at auction - "The Beatles made a psychedelic painting together - at auction on 1 February - while holed up in a Japanese hotel room. Its creation seemed to provide a moment of calm at a tumultuous time."
• The Supper at Emmaus: A coded symbol hidden in a masterpiece - "Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaus features a snag in a wicker basket that mirrors an underground Christian emblem, writes Kelly Grovier."
• the true stories behind Modigliani's languorous nudes - The Guardian.
• the truth about Picasso's portrait - The Guardian.
• The weird & wonderful art created when AI & humans unite - "Will AI kill art? Not likely, says the artist Alexander Reben, who has been working with AI for years. In fact, we may be entering an exciting new period that changes how we think about creativity itself."
• The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings - YouTube 58:26. Art critic Alastair Sooke delves into the murky world of art theft. Despite the high stakes - and often daring - involved, many cases are shrouded in mystery and go unnoticed by the media.
• Theft of Caravaggio in Sicily still shrouded in mystery 50 years on - "Investigators are racing against time to find one of world’s most sought-after stolen artworks."
• ThÉophile ThorÉ-BÜrger - (1807-1869). French journalist and art critic. He is best known today for his rediscovery of the work of painter Johannes Vermeer.
• There is no difference between computer art & human art - Aeon Ideas.
• Top 100 Most Collectible Living Artists 2015 - Artnet News.
• TOP 200 COLLECTORS - "Historically, building an art collection was a gradual process that took years, if not decades. When ARTnews began publishing its annual Top 200 Collectors list in 1990, the art world was at an inflection point for collecting. So when exactly is it that these buyers become collectors, and ones that merit inclusion in the Top 200? Read an introduction to the 34th edition of the list."
• Touring Europe in the Footsteps of van Gogh - The New York Times.
• Treasures from Rothschild family collection fetch over $62 million at unprecedented auction - "A vast collection of art, furniture, silver, ceramics, and jewelry long held in the private collection of the Rothschild banking dynasty sold for more than $62.6 million over several auctions at Christie’s New York."
• Trompe l'oeil & the images that fool the mind - "From the 17th Century and Cubism to today, trompe l'oeil art endures. Are we hard-wired to love things that are not as they appear to be, asks Caryn James."
• Tronie - a common type, or group of types, of works common in Dutch Golden Age painting and Flemish Baroque painting that shows an exaggerated facial expression or a stock character in costume.

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• Ukiyo-e - genre of art flourished in Japan from the 17th through 19th centuries.
• Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians - "Corruption agency hopes portal will ‘make it difficult for Russian oligarchs to sell such assets’."
• UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE - catalogues, names, and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity.
• Unknown Constables found hidden for 200 years in family scrapbook - "Among ‘weird and wonderful objects’ are early works by one of Britain’s most important artists."
• Unrecognized in his lifetime, this artist's work now makes millions - "Why Sanyu, the 'Chinese Matisse,' is setting the art market alight."
• Using art to show climate change impact - "COP25: WWF and Prado Museum use art to show climate change."

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• Van Gogh & Gauguin letter about brothel visit sells for €210,000 - "‘Exceptional’ correspondence sent from Arles in 1888 is bought by Van Gogh Museum."
• Van Gogh Never Visited Japan, but He Saw It Everywhere - The New York Times.
• Van Gogh 'suicide gun' sold at auction - "The gun which Vincent van Gogh may have used to kill himself has sold for a €162,500 (£144,000; $182,000) - almost three times more than expected."
• Van Gogh wasn’t ill, he just had a drink problem, new research suggests - The Telegraph.
• Van Gogh's darkest symbol - From The Starry Night to a wheatfield - "Known for his sunflowers, Vincent van Gogh was also drawn to another recurring symbol - one that gave him strength at his lowest moments, writes Matthew Wilson."
• Van Gogh's gushing letter to art critic goes on show in Amsterdam - "In letter artist describes review, one of the first of his paintings, as ‘a work of art in itself’."
• Vermeer's 'hidden' Cupid is the enigmatic artist's latest mystery - "For 300 years, this painting had a secret hiding in plain sight."
• Vienna Secession - formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna Künstlerhaus. This movement included painters, sculptors, and architects. The first president of the Secession was Gustav Klimt, and Rudolf von Alt was made honorary president.
• Vilhelm HammershØi’s 'Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30' - "Sold on May 16, 2023 for US$9,124,350 at Sotheby's New York City."
• Vincent van Gogh: Dream of Talking to Vincent van Gogh? A.I. Tries to Resurrect the Artist - "Can doppelgängers of the Dutch painter help museums generate new interest and income? A.I. Vincent fields our questions (and makes some mistakes)."
• Vincent van Gogh Paris painting from 1887 to make public debut - "Scène de rue à Montmartre has been part of same French family’s private collection for more than a century."
• VR at Tate Modern's Modigliani exhibition is no gimmick - engadget.

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• Wall Street Artwork - "When most people watch Wall Street they think about the stockbroking and inside trading etc. Art was a prominent feature in the Wall Street movie which is often over looked ... In particular I always liked the artwork that was in Gordon Gecko’s office."
• Want to See All the Vermeers in the World? Now’s Your Chance - "Meet Vermeer, a new augmented-reality app from the Mauritshuis museum and Google, is a virtual museum containing images of all authenticated Vermeer paintings."
• Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art - released on December 3, 1998. "In developing a consensus on non-binding principles to assist in resolving issues relating to Nazi-confiscated art, the Conference recognizes that among participating nations there are differing legal systems and that countries act within the context of their own laws."
• What happened to the world's largest painting? - "'Panthéon de la Guerre' at 100: The colossal war painting that time forgot."
• What the Panama Papers Reveal About the Art Market - The New York Times.
• What was Leonardo da Vinci doing at your age? - "What was Leonardo doing at your age?"
• When a Warhol for $225 Has More Heft Than One for $195 Million - "Unlike the Christie’s retread, the Pop master’s 1962 'Green Marilyn' was crudely silk-screened, with blotches that convey the decay of a fallen star. It was a pathbreaking original."
• Where is the world's most expensive painting? - "The $450 million question: Where is Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi'?"
• Which is the best tablet for an artist? - The Guardian.
• Who was in on Banksy's 'self-destruct' art stunt? - "The auction house says it didn't know anything about it. The artist famously doesn't like to show his face. The buyer is a mystery. So, for that matter, is the seller."
• Who was Leonardo da Vinci & what can we learn from him? - "As Europe prepares to mark the 500th anniversary of his death, we look at his achievements in art, science - and even flight."
• Why Campbell Soup hated, then embraced, Andy Warhol's soup can paintings - "Sixty years ago today, the pop artist Andy Warhol unveiled a wall of 32 Campbell Soup can paintings at a Los Angeles gallery, one for each flavor of soup then in production."
• Why Larry Gagosian Bought Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe Portrait For A Record $195 Million - "When the gavel came down Monday evening at Christie’s for Andy Warhol’s 1964 portrait of Marilyn Monroe, the $195 million price broke multiple auction records, including a new high for the Pop master himself. Like Warhol and Monroe, the buyer, art dealer Larry Gagosian, is also a familiar face."
• Why looking at awe-inspiring art could lead to a happier, healthier life - "It may be a sunset, a stirring orchestral number or a striking painting - whatever gives you goosebumps or makes you shed a tear. Experts believe that consistently seeking out these awe-inspiring experiences could lead to a significantly happier and healthier life."
• Why portraits have fascinated us for millennia - "From ancient times to today, portraiture has told us fundamental truths about humanity and identity, whoever the subject. Cath Pound explores the genre's most powerful examples."
• Why some animals appreciate art - "The animals with an artistic eye. Appreciating beauty may be one of the traits which makes us human, but some animals also seem to share it."
• Why the 'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations - CNN style.
• Why William Hogarth is Britain's greatest artist - "As a new exhibition at Tate Britain celebrates the pioneering cultural figure, Matthew Wilson explores what has made his work so influential."
• WIKI PAINTINGS - the encyclopedia of painting.
• Wildenstein Trial to Lift a Veil on Opaque Art World Dealings - The New York Times.
• Will the Internet Democratize Art or Destroy It? - "Two new visual books, 'Internet_Art' and 'The Story of NFTs,' explore the history and future of creative consumption online."
• With $170.4 Million Sale at Auction, Modigliani Work Joins Rarefied Nine-Figure Club - The New York Times.
• Work begins on wrapping Arc de Triomphe for Christo artwork - "Operation combining art and engineering on a massive scale fulfils dream of late artist couple."
• world's largest painting is being made in a Dubai hotel ballroom by this artist - "Artist behind world's largest painting hopes to raise $30M for charity. A British artist has taken over the ballroom of a luxury hotel in Dubai to produce the largest painting ever created on canvas."
• world's unlikeliest art thief - "The bus driver who confessed to stealing a Goya masterpiece. In 1961, a portrait by the artist vanished from the UK's National Gallery. As The Duke, a film about the theft, is released, Nicholas Barber tells the story of an incredible art heist."
• World's 'oldest figurative painting' discovered in Borneo cave - "New analysis suggests the animal drawings are at least 40,000 years old, say scientists."

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• You can now view every exquisite detail of this Rembrandt masterpiece virtually - "With many galleries closed to the public as the world grapples with the coronavirus crisis, a museum in the Netherlands has found a way to bring a masterpiece straight into people's homes."

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• Zhang Daqian, the Chinese painter who outsold Van Gogh - "Zhang Daqian may not be a household name in the West, but in China - and the global art market at large - he is on par with the likes of Warhol and Monet."