Van Gogh paintings snatched by mafia back in Amsterdam after 14 years
DW - Two works by Dutch post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh have been returned to the Netherlands after they were grabbed in a mafia heist 14 years ag...
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The Violence of the 2017 Whitney Biennial
Hyperallergic - All art is political, so I don’t see this year’s Whitney Biennial as any more or less engaged with the terrain of politics than the in...
How Yayoi Kusama Predicted The Power Of The Internet
Huffington Post -The exhibition “Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors” opened Thursday at Washington D.C.’s Hirshhorn Gallery. The show features 70 years of...
Man charged with vandalising painting by Gainsborough at National Gallery
The Art Newspaper -The man charged with vandalising Thomas Gainsborough’s The Morning Walk (1785) is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court t...
David Rockefeller, banker, philanthropist and lifetime MoMA patron, dies at age 101
The Art Newspaper -David Rockefeller, the New York banker, philanthropist and art collector, died at his home in the Pocantico Hills in upstate New Yo...
Asia’s new rich help cushion global market’s fall, economist Clare McAndrew reports
The Art Newspaper- - Total sales in the global art market shrank by 11% in 2016 to $57bn, a more than $10bn fall from an all-time high of $68bn in 20...
Google Maps can tell your friends exactly where you are
CNET - If you've ever tried to meet up with friends at a big expanse like Central Park or Golden Gate Park, you know it can be a pain to find the exa...
Is virtual reality the future of art?
DW - The way things are going, 2017 is shaping up to be the year that art gets virtual, as top galleries around the world allow this very modern mediu...
Jesus’ tomb site reopens after restoration
DW- Religious leaders opened the ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Wednesday, with many other dignitaries present, including Greek Prime...
Experts restore rare Dutch Golden Age map found stuffed up a chimney
The Art Newspaper - A rare Dutch Golden Age map of the world that was discovered, scrunched up in a ball, in a house in Aberdeenshire is on show at th...