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The Arts
David Hockney Loves Van Gogh. This Exhibition Shows Why.
The New York Times - NINA SIEGAL
AMSTERDAM — It’s easy to miss the Vincent van Gogh paintings at “Hockney/Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature.” In the Van Gogh Museum’s blockbuster spring exhibition, which runs through May 26, Mr. Hockney’s vibrant
Culture
A New Museum Exhibit Lets You Walk Into Vincent Van Gogh’s Masterpieces
departures.com - Erika Owen
There are more than 2,000 paintings––with a custom playlist––in rotation. Remember the interactive museums of your childhood? Having the opportunity …
Top 10
The state of the "art" market
Axios - Felix Salmon
Artnet's second Intelligence Report is out, examining global art sales at auction. By the numbers: A recent paper from Marshall Ma, Charles N. …
Artists
A New Documentary Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter Charts the Rebellious Life of the Venetian Painter Tintoretto
artnet.com - Kate Brown
People The release of the film coincides with the Venetian painter's 500th birthday. , Tintoretto was the ultimate Venetian. Venice practically oozes …
Art
'Lost Caravaggio' rejected by the Louvre may be worth £100m
The Guardian - Mark Brown Arts correspondent
Sellers of a painting that they insist is a lost Caravaggio and worth in excess of £100m have announced it will be sold this summer without a reserve. The large painting of Judith beheading Holoforneswas
Culture
Virgin of the Rocks: A subversive message hidden by Da Vinci
BBC Culture - By Kelly Grovier
A palm tree in an Alpine scene prompts Kelly Grovier to follow a trail of clues that unlock a 15th-Century mystery – transforming Da Vinci masterpieces into ruminations on the Earth’s geological evolution.
Historical Paintings Get a Pixelated Update | Colossal
thisiscolossal.com - Laura Staugaitis
Greek artist and art director Dimitris Ladopoulos (previously) continues to use the Houdini algorithm, referred to as treemapping, to interpret …
Why Rembrandt's The Night Watch is still a mystery
BBC Culture - By Fisun Güner
The Dutch master’s famous painting has inspired theories that suggest it led to his downfall. Fisun Güner takes a closer look. When Rembrandt van Rijn died aged 63 in 1669, he was buried in an unmarked
Culture
New Mural Masters Book Offers a Colorful Tour of Contemporary Street Art Around the World | Colossal
thisiscolossal.com - Andrew LaSane
Not everyone is lucky enough to travel the world to witness the evolution of street art. Luckily there are books like Mural Masters: A New …
'Bauhaus' centennial exhibit shines art movement's light on world, Chicago
suntimes.com - Kyle MacMillan - For the Sun-Times
No institution had more impact on the development of 20th century art, design and architecture than the Bauhaus, a German art school with such famous …
Amsterdam Art Museum to Display Hundreds of Rembrandt Works in a Single Exhibit
Fortune - Renae Reints
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will showcase most of its works by Rembrandt van Rijn in a single exhibit this spring, marking the 350th anniversary of …
Painting
Old Master paintings shown to be 'crusting over' by microscope 10 billion times brighter than the Sun
The Telegraph - By Dominic Nicholls
Old Master paintings are ‘crusting over’, scientists have warned, after a microscope using light 10 billion times brighter than the Sun identified damage to Rembrandt’s Homer. The study found that atmospheric
Banksy work stolen from Paris terror attack venue
24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP,
A painting in homage to terror victims by famous street artist Banksy has been stolen from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, where 90 people were …
A Priceless Van Gogh Painting in Amsterdam Will No Longer Travel to Other Museums
Fortune - Erik Sherman
A major Vincent Van Gogh painting, likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars, will never again leave the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, according …
Very Rare Rubens Nude Fetches $8.2 Million At Sotheby's Royal Family Sale, Shattering World Record
Forbes - Natasha Gural
UPDATE Jan. 30, 2019 Sir Peter Paul Rubens’s “Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms,” one of the most significant drawings by the renowned master to appear on the open market in more than five decades
Rembrandt
Secret ingredient helps explain how Rembrandt's paint got its layers
The Telegraph - By Oscar Quine
Scientists say the discovery of a missing ingredient in Rembrandt's paints helps explain how the Dutch Master achieved the distinctive layered effect in many of his paintings. For years, it was believed
The Painter of Souls
nybooks.com - Julian Bell
Lorenzo Lotto Portraits an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, June 19–September 30, 2018; and the National Gallery, London, November …
René Magritte
poetryfoundation.org - Poetry Foundation
René Magritte was an internationally renowned Belgian surrealist painter who also wrote prolifically on art and other subjects. He is known for such …
Long-form Journalism
The French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation’s Biggest Art Heist
The New Yorker - Jake Halpern
The skilled climber and thief Vjeran Tomic, whom the French press referred to as Spider-Man, has described robbery as an act of imagination. Long before the burglar Vjeran Tomic became the talk of Paris,
Entertainment (UK)
Who was Fahrelnissa Zeid? Google Doodle celebrates pioneering Turkish abstract artist
independent.co.uk - Adam Forrest
Google’s latest Doodle celebrates the life of Fahrelnissa Zeid, the renowned Turkish artist best known for blending Islamic and Byzantine traditions …
The Materials and Techniques of Drawings and Prints
metmuseum.org
Essential to understanding a work of art on paper is an appreciation of how it was made. Did the artist choose to draw in red chalk, gouache, or with …
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) | Self-Portrait | The Met
metmuseum.org
John Smith. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters. Vol. 7, London, 1836, p. 86, no. 210, as …
Dieter Rams: Principled Design At The Philadelphia Museum Of Art
Forbes - Clayton Press
“There is no future with so many redundant things.” Dieter Rams, 2018 In December 1976, Dieter Rams spoke about “an increasing and irreversible shortage of natural resources: raw materials, energy, food,
How Monet's masterpieces manipulate our brain: Scientists reveal what makes the art 'trick' our eyes
dailymail.co.uk - Annie Palmer
French impressionist Claude Monet's paintings are world renowned for their dreamy depictions of nature. As a new study has discovered, the transfixing …
Damien Hirst’s 60-foot-tall bronze colossus was acquired by a Las Vegas casino.
artsy.net - Benjamin Sutton
Damien Hirst, Demon with Bowl, 2014, as installed in Palazzo Grassi in “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable.” Photo by Prudence Cuming …
Jackson Pollock And Superstars Of Abstract Expressionism On View At The Met
Forbes - Chadd Scott
Abstract Expressionism holds the distinction of being the first original American art movement to gain worldwide acclaim. Its critical and popular reception following World War II shifted the center of
A Brief History of Art Dealing
artsy.net - Edward Winkleman and Patton Hindle
It behooves any budding art dealer to gain at least a cursory grounding in the giants of the field, if only because other dealers you will do …
2018, the year in Bay Area art
ebar.com - by Sura Wood
Tuesday Dec 25, 2018 They say the unexamined life is one not worth living, but we won't allow the same to be said of this past year in art. Herewith, …
The Year in Art
The New Yorker - Andrea K. Scott
The word of 2018 is “justice,” according to Merriam-Webster. The art world paved the way last year, when the collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund launched the Art for Justice Fund (with the Ford Foundation),