Top Ten FBI Art Thefts for 2009
Federal Bureau of Investigation – Art Theft Program
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Picasso Sketches Stolen: French Police
Picasso Sketches Stolen: French Police
PARIS — A red notebook of 33 pencil drawings by Pablo Picasso has been stolen from a specially locked glass case in the Paris museum that bears the painter’s name, authorities said Tuesday.
The book is believed to be worth 8 million euros ($11 million), a police official said.
The theft took place between Monday and Tuesday morning at the Picasso Museum, removed from a glass case that “can only be opened with a specific instrument,” the Culture Ministry said.
When a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Debates
Abroad – ‘Controversies’ in Paris – When a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Debates – NYTimes.com
PARIS — There is a civil contract implied by photographs. An Israeli writer, Ariella Azoulay, published a book making that point. Henri Cartier-Bresson made it too. He described shooting pictures of people as a “sort of violation,” adding, “if sensitivity is lacking, there can be something barbaric about it.” There can be, of course, and not just when the subject doesn’t like the image.
Art: Waterpod Is a Floating Green Home in New York City
Waterpod Is a Floating Green Home in New York City – NYTimes.com
ONE afternoon last week, Mary Mattingly, a 30-year-old sculptor and photographer who has been living in a two-bedroom walk-up in Queens, gave a reporter a tour of her new home, a 30-by-100-foot barge moored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Xu Beihong’s Artworks Exhibited in Beijing
Xu Beihong’s Artworks Exhibited in Beijing
Xu Beihong 1895-1953 is famous both for his traditional Chinese ink paintings and his Western-style oil paintings. As a young man, he was one of the first Chinese artists to search for new forms of artistic expression reflecting China’s troubled encounters with the modern world.
Even art takes a hit in economic downturn
Even art takes a hit in economic downturn
Tens of millions of dollars of art went unsold at major auctions in Hong Kong and London in September and October. Then with the Nov. 3 start of the important fall season in New York, sales of Impressionist and Modern paintings at Sotheby’s came in more than $100 million below the auction house’s low estimate.
Death row inmate gives his body to art
This is pretty disgusting. Marco Evaristti wants public to feed it to goldfish. Pushing the envelope for his fifteen minutes is what this cretin has brought his art to in service of his ambition. What a creep.
Death row inmate gives his body to art – The Art Newspaper
Death row inmate gives his body to art
