Did Paying a Ransom for a Stolen Magritte Painting Inadvertently Fund Terrorism?
The theft of a deeply personal painting by the Belgian artist was a national tragedy. Now an investigation points to a tragedy greater still.
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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 Beeple's 'freak wave' in March, the ranking of the best performing artists at auction in 2021 has returned to its usual population of great masters. Beeple has now left the top 5 in favor of Claude Monet and Andy Warhol. Top 10 ar...
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 Tretyakov Gallery invites you to forget all that — or remember and then marvel at the unexpected sides of ...
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 Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less 3of5 Sandy Skoglund “Winter installation” includes sculptures, s...
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 information on the ownership of extractive companies in order to eliminate corrupt acts that can dive...