In his exhibition You Were Shit in the 80s, artist Mackie imagines fictional feuds between great artists. He didn’t need to. Real art history is riddled with rivalries – from Leonardo’s attempted castration of Michelangelo’s David, to Picasso and Matisse’s love wars article by Jonathan Jones | via The Guardian | 12 March 2015 {featured image: Van Gogh…
Category: Visual Art
Van Gogh landscape to be shown for first time in 100 years
Experts expect Le Moulin d’Alphonse to fetch around $10m after research tying it directly to the artist via the records of his sister-in-law Johanna author Dayla Alberge | March 9, 2015 | via The Guardian A landscape by Vincent van Gogh is to be exhibited for the first time in more than 100 years following the…
the Ajanta Caves: discovering lost treasure
The Ajanta Caves were a sanctuary for Buddhist monks that was forgotten, along with its stunning riches, for nearly 1,500 years. Jonathan Glancey investigates. The Ajanta Caves, 30 spellbinding Buddhist prayer halls and monasteries carved, as if by sorcery, into a horseshoe-shaped rock face in a mountainous region of India’s Maharashtra state, 450km (280 miles)…
police arrest brothers who sold a fake Goya … and were paid with fake cash
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…
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…
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