Category: visual

“The buyer immediately defaulted on his bid, according to officials at the charity. And now other bidders are crying foul over the way in which the attention-getting sale was conducted.”

The man who had them in his apartment may or may not be missing. In addition, “rather than having vanished during the Nazi era, many of the artworks appear have to passed through the hands of allied forces.” What?

“The former president of the United States galloped into the exhibition of painting, printmaking and sculpture, adjusted his pince-nez, and ejaculated, in his famous soprano yelp, ‘THAT’S NOT ART!'”

“The recently revealed discovery of more than 1,400 works of art stashed away in an apartment in Munich, Germany, could pose a number of legal challenges for individuals looking to make a claim, an art expert said in an interview. ”

“The Italian government had decided to reduce the number of cruise ships sailing through Venice by 40% from November 2014, but at the cost of further damaging the lagoon through deep dredging a channel to allow the ships to arrive in the port of Venice round the back of the city.”

“If you look at this month’s big contemporary art auctions, you’ll see quite a lot of art being flipped, including art being flipped by one of the biggest collectors of them all, Stevie Cohen.”

“Few outside the art world are aware of the fact that Nazi art and looting agencies operated large bureaucracies that not only purged the museums of Germany itself of the so-called Degenerate Art, but ran confiscation programs at home and in the occupied countries.”

It seems that the Monument Men, the admired group of Allied soldiers and art scholars who worked to rescue works looted by the Axis powers, were only human.

“One would think his military role might preclude him from making politically charged works, yet much of [Abdulnasser] Gharem’s art takes aim at the obscurantism and conservatism that he sees as pervasive in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.”

“The Tuesday vote would have authorized $217 million in bonds to be used in renovations to turn the stadium into an enormous space to be used for conventions and exhibitions.”