CAIRO (AP).- Egypt’s culture minister on Saturday retracted his claim that police had recovered a van Gogh painting stolen from a Cairo museum, saying it was based on inaccurate information and that the search for the canvas continues. The minister, F…
Kathleen Ariatti Banton’s The River of Forget at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery presents The River of Forget featuring new works by artist Kathleen Ariatti Banton in her first solo exhibition with the gallery since 2008. The exhibition includes large abstract works on canvas as well as sc…
Coolerwalls Partners with Warner Bros. Consumer Products and DC Comics for DC Comics Wall Murals
LONDON.- Interior company, Coolerwalls, creators of highly original and iconic murals have joined forces with Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) and DC Comics. Coolerwalls have signed a licensing agreement with WBCP, on behalf of DC Comics, to launc…
Painting at Center of Caravaggio Mystery Unveiled in Rome
ROME (AP).- Art officials on Tuesday unveiled the painting at the center of the latest Caravaggio mystery, after the Vatican newspaper first suggested and then denied that the canvas was the work of the Italian master. The “Martyrdom of St. Lawrence” w…
Art Officials Unveil "Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" Which is at Center of Caravaggio Mystery
ROME (AP).- Art officials on Tuesday unveiled the painting at the center of the latest Caravaggio mystery, after the Vatican newspaper first suggested and then denied that the canvas was the work of the Italian master. The “Martyrdom of St. Lawrence” w…
Painting by Spanish Baroque Master Francisco Ribalta Restored After Being Hidden in Church
VALENCIA.- The old Church of San Esteban, on Colón de Valencia Street, had been its hiding place for centuries. The piece, which was completely blackened, had gone unnoticed for many years. The weather had harmed the painting, in fact, 40% of the pain…
German Museum Finds Rare Ludwig Kirchner in Cellar
BERLIN (AP).- A German museum has discovered what it believes to be a previously unknown work by German Expressionist artist Ludwig Kirchner that languished in its cellar for decades. The Staedel Museum announced the find on Tuesday, saying that it ha…
The Film Forum to Premiere Tamra Davis’s Film of Jean-Michel Basquiat
NEW
YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical
premiere of
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD, opening Wednesday, July 21.
Filmmaker
Tamra Davis charts the meteoric rise and fall of her late friend, the
painter
Jean-Mi…
Paintings by Nicholas Hlobo on View at Galerie Pfriem at SCAD Lacoste
LACOSTE, FRANCE.- Having hosted his first
U.S.
solo exhibition in Savannah in 2007, the SCAD exhibitions department is
pleased
to present Nicholas Hlobo in “Paintings,” a solo exhibition at Galerie
Pfriem at
SCAD Lacoste, France.
Stolen $100 Million Dollar Caravaggio Recovered in Berlin
BERLIN
— A Caravaggio painting stolen from a museum in Odessa in the Ukraine
two years
ago was recovered by police as four men tried to sell it in Berlin,
official
said Monday. Police confiscated the 17th-century painting — known as …