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Valuable Paintings Burned in the Russian Occupation, Ukrainian Authorities

[ad_1] About 25 paintings by the famous Ukrainian artist Maria Primachenko were burned as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on social media on Monday. The destruction of the artifacts has not been independently verified by The New York Times. The ministry said in a tweet that …

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Museum Security Guard Eyes The Painting’s Faceless Figures

[ad_1] A security guard who recently destroyed a 1930s painting during his first shift at a museum in Russia has been sacked for what a senior museum official called a “stupid mistake”. In December, the guard at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Yekaterinburg, Russia, drew his eyes using a ballpoint pen on two obscure …

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A Multilayered Praise of Hip-Hop in the Paintings of Troy Lamarr Chew II

[ad_1] The paintings that make up “The Roof is Burning” continue in this line. During the first months of the curfew, Chew was completing his artist residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito. “[The pandemic] it didn’t feel real then, not like it would later. We were hitting the music all the …

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Francis Bacon’s Animal Paintings Analyzed by Animal Experts

[ad_1] LONDON — Biographer Michael Peppiatt recalled in a recent telephone interview that painter Francis Bacon was “never particularly fond of animals.” Bacon was raised largely on a stud farm in Ireland, but “stayed away from horses and dogs because they triggered his asthma,” Peppiatt said. As an adult, Bacon also didn’t have pets, in …

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In Museums and Auctions, Paintings, Posters and Wizard’s Treasures

[ad_1] SIGN “Joan Jonas” Large-scale artworks are part of Dia’s DNA, and this exhibit of the museum’s Hudson Valley branch features three major installations in the collection of pioneering video and performance artist Joan Jonas, perhaps best known for her 2015 show at the USA Pavilion in Venice. biennial. Ms. Jonas reviewed the work for …

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Can We Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again?

[ad_1] BOSTON – With the little supernova of a show, “Titian: Women, Myth and Power” The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is delivering an art history coup that institutions many times its size should envy, and audiences hungry for the old master’s dazzle can consider themselves lucky to see it. Yet the same exhibition raises troubling …

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Paintings, Projections, Virtual Reality Starry Nights: Could We Ever Know Van Gogh?

[ad_1] In 2017, I took a trip to Paris where I greedily made as much art as I could. In one of the cave rooms of the decorated cave Oresay Museum It was a Van Gogh exhibition, his framed works (“Starry Night on the Rhône”, “Bedroom in Arles”, “Church at Auvers”, a series of self-portraits) …

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Louvre’s Art Detective Hunts for Looted Paintings

[ad_1] Polack had made a reputation abroad as a member of the international task force in Germany. Discovery of approximately 1,500 artifacts brought by squirrel by Cornelius Gurlitthis father, Hildebrand, bought artwork for Hitler. While working for the task force, Dorville uncovered the key to his story. He looked behind a portrait of the Impressionist …

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