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Article date: Friday, September 6, 2019

LA Police Work to Track Down Owners of Stolen Art

The Los Angeles police department has launched a program to track down stolen art. Operation Demetra, named after a similar European task force, was launched in June after an auction house contacted police to say they had received a few paintings they suspected were stolen.

Article date: Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts unites Lucian Freud’s self-portraits in one extraordinary exhibition. Explore more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turns his unflinching eye firmly on himself.

Article date: Wednesday, September 4, 2019

MCH Group Sells its Shares in India Art Fair

MCH Swiss Exhibition (Basel) Ltd, MCH Group company in Basel (Switzerland), is selling its 65.0 percent stake in Seventh Plane Networks Private Limited in New Delhi (India) to Angus Montgomery (HK) Limited based in Hong Kong.

Article date: Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Peter Lindbergh the Legend of Fashion Photography Passes Away at 74

Fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh, whose trademark was the dramatic black and white portrait, has died at 74. The German photographer passed away on Tuesday, his official Instagram account said, leaving a "big void".

Article date: Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Tomás Saraceno - in orbit Installation at K21 Ständehaus

Suspended at a height of more than 25 m above the piazza of K21 is the enormous installation in orbit, a work by the artist Tomás Saraceno. The installation appears as a surreal landscape, and is reminiscent of a sea of clouds or floating planetary bodies. The physically accessible work is constructed of virtually transparent steel mesh that interlaces three levels spanning the massive glass dome. Five air-filled "spheres" are positioned within the net structure that encompasses an area of 2500 m².

Article date: Wednesday, August 28, 2019

The Aestheticized Interview with Piyali Ghosh (India)

"Art is inseparable from life. We are reproducing our feelings, experience and knowledge through the language of art. I think, Art is political when it communicates with audience, regardless of an artist’s intension each piece of art consciously or unconsciously records socio-political history of our time. It is a powerful tool to push the conventional boundaries of thought, it dares to deconstruct and reconstruct ideas asan independent political or social message".

Article date: Monday, August 26, 2019

Ed Sheeran Showcase is Presented in Musician's Home County of Suffolk

An exhibition documenting British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran's rise to fame has opened near where he grew up in Suffolk, England, and showcases a vast array of items from oil paintings and childhood photos to school reports and a letter formalising his college drop-out.

Article date: Monday, August 19, 2019

Lionel Jusseret on Capturing the Unpredictable

"So I turned instinctively to documentary cinema. It allows for lighter equipment and more independence. I discovered the working methods of Robert Flaherty and Johan van der Keuken: intimacy with the subject, immersion and long term work. They were searching for unpredictability to inject life into their movies. That was what I wanted also".

Article date: Monday, August 19, 2019

Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss at Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Discover the art of Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss in a small exhibition full of gems, including drawings, collages, models and ceramic objects from her rich artistic practice between 1964 and 1984. Her commitment to art and politics has involved her in student riots, liberation struggles and cultural hubs all over the world, and always, somehow, in the midst of where it was all happening.

Article date: Sunday, August 18, 2019

Sun and Soul Vitalism and Symbolism in the SMK Collection

Fields of waving grain, shimmering sunshine, a majestic mountaineer and a grey palette that only Vilhelm Hammershøi could wield with such mastery. Enjoy a selection of key masterpieces of Danish art from around the year 1900. A period that encompassed contemplative, symbolic ‘images of the soul’ as well as a vibrant enthusiasm for nature, light and vitality.

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