EAST HAMPTON, NY.- In August 1953, on assignment for Look magazine, the photographer Tony Vaccaro visited Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner at their home in Springs. He photographed the two artists in the house and the barn studio, where the couple chatt…
Jackson and Lee, August 1953: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- In August 1953, on assignment for Look magazine, the photographer Tony Vaccaro visited Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner at their home in Springs. He photographed the two artists in the house and the barn studio, where the couple chatt…
Rare 3D Film Shows Warsaw Devastated After WWII
WARSAW (AP).- Polish historians have created an unusual 3D film that documents the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during World War II. Jan Oldakowski, the director of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, said the film “City of Ruins” is mainl…
Lawsuit Says Over $100 Million Art Collection is Largest Holocaust Art Claim
WASHINGTON, DC.- Heirs to the Herzog Collection, the largest private art collection in Hungary prior to World War II, filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia late yesterday to seek the return of artworks illegally he…
Art Institute of Chicago Opens Henri Cartier-Bresson Retrospective
CHICAGO, IL.- Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, and influential figures in the history of photography. His celebrated work of the early 1930s helped to define the artistic potential of modern photography;…
Leopold Museum Pays a $19 Million Settlement for Egon Schiele’s "Portrait of Wally"
NEW YORK (AP).- A 12-year dispute that illustrated the difficulty of proving art was stolen by Nazis in World War II ended Tuesday with an agreement that a 1912 oil painting entitled “Portrait of Wally” will be returned to a Vienna museum and displayed…
Robert Capa Exhibition at Círculo de Bellas Artes Focuses on Famous Photograph
MADRID.- Robert Capa is, without a doubt, one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century. His most striking images—of the Spanish Civil War, of the Sino-Japanese conflict, of World War II—all appeared in the pages of the leading pi…
National World War II Museum Features Loyal Forces: Animals in WWII
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Loyal Forces: Animals in WWII is an exhibit focused on the animals employed and encountered throughout World War II, from the Home Front to the Pacific. Life-size horses and mules, harnessed in authentic World War II saddles and equip…
Paintings Taken by Serviceman in WWII Return to Germany
NEW YORK, NY.- In a ceremony at the Goethe Institute in Manhattan, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) displayed some of the 11 oil paintings that were taken by a U.S. serviceman from a Pirmasens air raid shelter after the allied invasion of…
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Go on View
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In 2005 the Hammer launched an initiative to build a collection of contemporary art through both purchases and gifts. Recognizing the variety of media that contemporary artists employ, this growing collection of nearly 1500 works incl…