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Article date: Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Dutch Art Detective Tracks Down Lost Picasso

Dutch art detective Arthur Brand tracked down a lost painting by Pablo Picasso titled Buste De Femme, painted in 1938. The painting of Picasso's mistress Dora Maar was stolen from the yacht of a Saudi sheikh in France in 1999 and has been missing ever since. The stolen painting, valued at 4 million euros at the time of its theft, has now been transferred to an insurance company, the Volkskrant reports.

Article date: Monday, March 25, 2019

Japanese Art Market Estimated at 246 Billion JPY

Art Tokyo Association, the organizer of Art Fair Tokyo, Japan’s largest art fair, conducted the Japanese Art Industry Market Research Survey with approximately 20,000 people, estimating the scale of the art market in Japan to be 246 billion JPY.

Article date: Thursday, March 21, 2019

Swiss Competition Gives Winner Picasso Painting for a Day

For most of us, the closest we will ever come to having a Picasso in our house is a print, a fridge magnet or perhaps a novelty mug. But a competition being run by Switzerland’s Beyeler Foundation museum and Swiss telecommunications giant Swisscom is giving one Swiss household the chance to take possession of an original painting by the Spanish artist for day.

Article date: Wednesday, March 20, 2019

MAAT Opens International Group Show Fiction and Fabrication

From March 19 onwards, MAAT will host Fiction and Fabrication: Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn, which gathers nearly 50 artists who build and manipulate images of architectural objects and spaces.

Article date: Friday, March 15, 2019

Colonial Heritage: Germany Aims to Improve Restitution Process

The country's culture ministers met to prepare a joint statement on how museums and institutions should deal with items acquired during the colonial era. A Cape Cross pillar is to be returned to Namibia.

Article date: Friday, March 15, 2019

Gurlitt Provenance Research Identifies New case of Nazi-Confiscated Art

Researchers conducting provenance research into the Gurlitt art trove have identified the painting “Quai de Clichy” by Paul Signac as Nazi-confiscated art. The research finding has been confirmed by international review experts. A claim has been registered for the return of the painting. The painting was among the hoard of artworks discovered at Cornelius Gurlitt’s home in Salzburg. A report containing details of the painting was entered into the Lost Art Database in 2016.

Article date: Thursday, March 14, 2019

Italy Foils Art Thieves by Swapping Brueghel Painting for a Fake

Thieves who stole a Flemish master's painting of the crucifixion from a church in northern Italy this week are in for a disappointment: police say they had secretly swapped the original for a fake.

Article date: Wednesday, March 13, 2019

John Richardson, Critic and Picasso Biographer, Dies at 95

Sir John Richardson, the eminent historian and critic whose multivolume series on Pablo Picasso drew upon his personal and aesthetic affinity for the Spanish painter and was widely praised as a work of art in its own right, has died. He was 95.

Article date: Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Hirshhorn to Revitalize Sculpture Garden for the 21st Century

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced that its board of trustees unanimously voted in favor of moving forward with a renovation and redesign of its Sculpture Garden for the first time since the 1980s. Over the past two years, the museum has been working to reimagine the space to improve the visitor experience and to provide a greater variety of programming.

Article date: Monday, March 11, 2019

Past/Future/Present: Contemporary Brazilian Art from the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo

As we know, the notion of “Brazilianness” cannot be defined based merely on a homogenous essence related to geography. What connects certain artists of a Brazilian tradition, beyond the symbolic field with which they interact, are recurrent references to shared experiences, historical moments, social norms, and transgressions. The title Past/ Future/Present refers to relationships between the past and the future, created by works of art rooted in a present characterized by an unprecedented diversity and a constant exchange of ideas on an international scale.

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