CAIRO (AP).- Egypt’s state news agency reports the country’s top prosecutor has ordered a four-day detention of the deputy culture minister over the theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting. Thieves made off with the canvas, known by the titles of “Poppy …
Faulty Alarms Blamed for Van Gogh Theft at Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Egypt
CAIRO (AP).- None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen, Egypt’s top prosecutor said Sunday. Thieves made off with the canvas, known by the titles of “Po…
Faulty Alarms Blamed for Van Gogh Theft at Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Egypt
CAIRO (AP).- None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen, Egypt’s top prosecutor said Sunday. Thieves made off with the canvas, known by the titles of “Po…
Inverleith House Opens First Museum Exhibition in the UK Devoted to the Artist Joan Mitchell
EDINBURGH.- Inverleith House presents the first museum exhibition in the UK devoted to the artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) – one of the most important and singular American painters of the post war period, whose influence and stature are gai…
Van Gogh Museum Shows Works by Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Unknown’ Brother
AMSTERDAM.- In its annual presentation in the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum is showing a selection of works by Marcel Duchamp’s ‘unknown’ brother Gaston Duchamp, who went by the pseudonym of Jacques Villon. Jacques Villon was a paint…
Kunsthaus Zürich Presents Work by Georges Seurat One of the Fathers of Modern Art
ZURICH.- Under the heading ‘Figure in Space’, the
Kunsthaus Zürich presents work by one of the fathers of modern art, Georges
Seurat, from 2 October 2009 until 17 January 2010. A colleague of Paul Cézanne
and Vincent van Gogh’s, Seurat b…
A Real Van Gogh: How the Art World Struggles with Truth
AMSTERDAM.- Vincent van Gogh’s paintings and drawings are fabulously expensive. Millions of people admire his work, but are those masterpieces all genuine? To this day, the international art world struggles to separate the real Van Goghs from the …