Category: visual

“Two of the most perfectly preserved panels, depicting St Victor of Marseille and St Margaret of Antioch, were hacked out of the screen and a third image, of a female saint, was damaged before the thieves abandoned the attempt to remove it.”

“As a result of the new policy, there are now more than 4,600 images from the Getty Museum available in high-resolution format on the Getty’s website for use without restriction. The images depict art objects including paintings, sculptures, photographs and various antiquities.”

“Glafira Rosales, the Long Island art dealer who was arrested this past spring on charges that she laundered money and evaded taxes as part of a scheme to sell multimillion-dollar forgeries, was released on bail Monday.”

“Suspects in the theft of seven artworks have offered to return them in exchange for moving their trial from Romania to the Netherlands, their lawyers say.”

“The value of art exports leaving the UK surged by a third over the past year to hit its highest level since the height of the financial crisis in 2008.”

“Yes, it’s our old friend – and I use the word sarcastically — trickle-down theory, the one championed 30 years ago by the Reagan administration.”

“Check out the list of Amazon Art’s 10 most expensive paintings below for a taste of the impressive, albeit sort of bizarre, range of works available for purchase. “

“To find the DNA they needed, scientists cut a round hole in the stone church floor above the family crypt of Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. The tomb lies behind the altar of the Santissima Annunziata Basilica.”

“[A new] city-commissioned plan, ‘More Park, Less Way,’ focuses on turning four parcels of underutilized open space into lively neighborhood parks with amenities such as yoga, volleyball, chess boards, food kiosks and cultural programming. The aim is to make the parkway as enticing a destination for city residents – especially the 70,000 who live within a 10-minute walk – as it is for tourists.”

A longstanding belief within behavioral economics held that people will usually come to like lesser-known or mediocre works of art as well as they do canonical works simply through repeated exposure. Reassuringly, a new study finds that this is not true of bad art; the more subjects saw of it, the less they liked it. (And whose work was used as the bad art in the study?)