Police in Romania have detained three suspects linked to a major art heist, which took place at a Dutch art gallery last October, officials say.
This can make it problematic to attend a modern art museum with me, a task my wife, a genuine and sophisticated art lover, approaches with a mixture of caution and bravado.
Now practised as a performing art throughout Korea, it can be seen as a representative Korean folk art.
Panic is a civic art, a birthright that runs deep, like New Orleans and jazz.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection houses a first-class collection of 20th-century art from Dali to Duchamp in a beautiful white palazzo on the Grand Canal, and the Punta della Dogana, a contemporary art centre at the tip of Dorsoduro, contains the modern art collection of Francois Pinault, the CEO of Kering, which owns labels like Gucci and Saint Laurent.
It is commonplace now for a work of art to be worth tens of millions of dollars, and that makes them a target for art thieves.
You could argue this is as close to a pure art form as a concept car can get.
The home also has a hidden art vault, a projection 3-D movie theater and a wine cellar accessed with fingerprint identification.
In the 1980s Massachusetts was famous for liberal north-eastern public policies that struck most Americans as utterly crazy, such as buying a modern art sculpture for a prison.
New York (CNN) -- Exactly eight months after the "brazen" theft of a Salvador Dali painting from a Manhattan art gallery, a Greek national was indicted Tuesday on a grand larceny charge, according to the New York County District Attorney's Office.
One of the most popular museums in the world, the Louvre has a long history of collecting art from the Islamic world, from putting on the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to Islamic art in 1893 to creating a dedicated Islamic art department in 2003.
It had been purchased from a Munich art dealer, as a portrait of an unknown subject.
The sepulchre of Rufina Cambaceres is a beautiful Art Nouveau work depicting a young woman tearfully opening heaven's door.
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In 1997 Brian Sewell, a British art critic, saw a picture of a young man that had been brought in for evaluation at Sotheby's in London.
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Glyn received an A in art and design and a B in history AS-level but Es in Welsh and English because he missed the exams to go on Big Brother.
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Besides galleries in the U.S., those in Switzerland, the only non-EU European country with a vibrant art market, also stand to benefit, says Anthony Browne, head of the British Art Market Federation, a coalition of dealers and auction houses.
In the 1960s, the State Department inaugurated a program called Art in Embassies, primarily as a vehicle to provide temporary art for ambassadors' residences during their diplomatic tenure.
Time off: Schrghuber, 36, supports a modern art museum in Munich and a program of free vacations for needy children.
Then at a local art show, we find a very nice painting, but again it was too large for our space.
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But inside, an entirely different aesthetic prevailed: Abstract Expressionist paintings by family friends and frequent visitors like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman were positioned beside Minimalist sculptures by the sisters' father, Tony Smith, who was both a celebrated art theorist and something of a homebody.
Also next week, a show by the young art star Jacob Kassay opens at the Power Station, a not-for-profit Dallas art venue in a 1920s industrial space.
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It foreshadows a new art form on the horizon, a descendent of Impressionism: the cinema.
In 1976, Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree in industrial design and an enduring fascination with the Japanese comic strips called manga.
That stunt put him in reform school, followed by a series of foster homes in the seaside town of Maldon, where he joined a local art club under the tutelage of a landscape painter trained at the Royal College of Scotland.
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Furthermore, as the show's curator, Jessica Morgan, points out, her art didn't fit into the Lebanese cultural establishment's desire for a modern art that referenced Lebanese tradition with subjects such as landscapes that could clearly be rooted in a particular place or a moment.
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Mr. Adelson converted the large public rooms on the lower levels with marble floors, wood paneling and high ceilings into a commercial art gallery, according to Nicholas Judson, a broker at Judson Realty.
Taekkyeon, a traditional Korean martial art (Republic of Korea): Taekkyeon is a traditional Korean martial art that makes use of fluid, rhythmic dance-like movements to strike an opponent, while teaching consideration and moderation.
Sloan and Steffen believe that contributing to a work of art is a rewarding experience in and of itself.
Gormley's work is among a raft of art projects put forward by the British Council's latest venture, Art For A Dangerous World.
Some right-wing members of the city council have argued it is far too much to pay for a work of art with a limited lifespan.
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