article by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso | artnet news | February 23, 2015 Spanish Police have arrested two brothers from Girona, Spain, who attempted to sell a fake Francisco de Goya painting to a purported sheikh, EFE reports. But the “sheikh” was no victim: he paid the pair with photocopied money. The con artists realized they had been…
Month: February 2015
down and dirty fairy tales
How this rediscovered stash of darker-than-Grimm stories destroys our Prince Charming myths The translator of a newly discovered trove of 150-year-old tales on the gender-bending surprises found there article by Laura Miller | via Salon In 2012, readers around the world were intrigued to learn that a researcher in northern Bavaria had discovered hundreds of…
Pablo Picasso: Spanish by birth, French at art
The 20th century’s greatest painter was born in Malaga but came into his own amid the sleaze and bohemianism of Paris – the only city that could have matched his peerless imagination article by Jonathan Jones | The Guardian | 20 February 2015 Pablo Picasso, the greatest artist of the 20th century, was French. Hold on ……
why museums hide masterpieces away
article by Kimberly Bradley | BBC Culture | 23 January 2015 | featured image: Many museums and galleries maintain vast facilities to store works not on public display (picture courtesy of Montel) In major museums around the world, some truly great works of art are hidden away from public view. What are they – and why…
fame finally comes to little-known Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo
by Stanley Meisler | LA Times | February 14, 2015 | featured image: Piero di Cosimo’s “The Discovery of Honey,” c. 1500, oil on panel When American millionaires bought paintings by Piero di Cosimo in the late 19th century, almost all the works were attributed to other Italian Renaissance artists. Piero, a painter of Florence during…
indonesian cave art may be world’s oldest
A new study dates these Indonesian handprints to at least 40,000 years old article by Ann Gibbons | 8 October 2014 | Science Magazine | featured image via Independent UK The world’s oldest cave art may not lie in Europe but rather halfway around the globe in Indonesia, according to a new study of the long-known art. But some…
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