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The theft of a deeply personal painting by the Belgian artist was a national tragedy. Now an investigation points to a tragedy greater still.

ARTMARKET.COM: Artmarket.com: real paintings by blue-chip artists remain the super-stars of the art market, says Artprice Lynda Benglis, Hernan Bas, James Ensor, Rashid Johnson, Frank Stella, Alexander Calder, $378,000 (est. $ 50,000 - $70,000) Dana Schutz, David Hockney, Kees Van Dongen, Robert de Saint-Loup (1946-47): $143,750 (est. $20,000- $30,000) After Beeples freak wave in March, the ranking of the best performing artists at auction in 2021 has returned to its usual population of...

Discover Painter Ilya Repin Anew This show of his works reveals unexpected sides of his oeuvre. In Besieged Moscow, 1812 (1912) by Ilya Repin State Tretyakov Gallery Ilya Repin is best known as a realist painter, whose portraits of writer Leo Tolstoy and canvases such as “Barge Haulers on the Volga” and “Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks” represented Russia to the world. But the show “Ilya Repin: Known and Unknown” at the State Tretyako...

McNay must-sees: Infinity room, cheese doodle sculpture included in new exhibit at San Antonio museum Deborah Martin, Staff writer FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Yayoi Kusama’s “All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins” is the second of the artist’s infinity rooms to be shown at the McNay Art Museum.Jessica Phelps /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Yayoi Kusama’s “All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins” features an an array of gourds.Jessica Phelps /San Antonio...

Chineme Okafor The global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and Open Ownership (OO) have set up a ground-breaking, cross-sector partnership with anchor funding from the BHP Foundation, to end the use of anonymous companies linked to corruption and mismanagement in the extractive sectors of Nigeria and other signatory countries. The new initiative which is termed, ‘Opening Extractives,’ aims to make a dramatic and sustainable difference to the level of publicly-available i...

Galerie Michael Janssen announces an online solo exhibition by artist Jana Cordenier Jana Cordenier, Untitled, 2020. Watercolour on paper, 84 x 150 cm. BERLIN .- For the second installment of its online exhibition series, Galerie Michael Janssen presents a solo exhibition by artist Jana Cordenier titled “Watercolours.” This exhibition is the artist’s second showing with the gallery, who debuted last year with her solo exhibition “Paradise.” Eponymously, “Watercolours” presents a selectio...

Share A new cross-sector partnership between the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and Open Ownership (OO), supported by the BHP Foundation, aims to end the use of anonymous companies linked to corruption and mismanagement in the extractive sector. The EITI and Open Ownership today launched Opening Extractives, a global programme to advance beneficial ownership transparency. It aims to make a dramatic and sustainable difference to the level of publicly available information...

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Cleveland Museum of Art’s revelatory “Stories from Storage’’ exhibit brings hidden gems into the light Updated Feb 08, 2021; Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art faced a curatorial nightmare last year when the coronavirus pandemic turned its precisely calibrated exhibition calendar from a Swiss watch into Swiss cheese. Big shows on topics including 7th-century sculpture from Cambodia, and Pablo Picasso’s works on paper got postponed, punching holes in a time...

Ralph Steadman is a rare thing, a celebrity illustrator. His fame goes hand in hand with that of Hunter S. Thompson, for whose novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) he drew the cover and other illustrations. It’s hard to imagine a reprint without Steadman’s ink drawing of Raoul Duke and Dr Gonzo driving out across the desert. Steadman’s depiction of the two characters as grotesque and twisted madmen and his rendering of the book’s title in scrawled, inky capitals chime perfectly ...