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Da Vinci to Be Decoded With Neutron Beam

Expert from bestseller may find masterpiece in Florentine wall

(Newser) - An art diagnostician so inventive that he was mentioned in The Da Vinci Code—the only real-life character in the book—will beam neutrons at a wall of Florence’s famous town hall next month, hoping to uncover a hidden Leonardo fresco. Maurizio Seracini has been waiting three decades to...

Hi-Res Pic of 'Mona Lisa' Raises Some Eyebrows

Faded pigments and poor cleaning probably obliterated the hair

(Newser) - Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" has eyebrows and eyelashes, according to one French inventor, answering a long-standing question about the haunting image painted some 500 years ago. Pascal Cotte said he made the discovery using a camera that yielded a 150,000-dots-per-inch photograph, CNN reports, magnifying her face 24...

Top NYC Gallery Shuttered As Lawsuits Mount

Angered investors, artists accuse owner of 'Ponzi scheme'

(Newser) - Visitors arrived yesterday at New York's Salander-O'Reilly Gallery for a Caravaggio exhibition only to discover the gallery shuttered and the exhibition postponed. In fact, it might never open: Guards were seen carting off dozens of paintings from the gallery's Upper East Side townhouse. Its owner is facing no fewer than...

Chinese Art Booms at London Sales
Chinese Art Booms at London Sales
Oct 16, 2007 9:40 AM CDT

Chinese Art Booms at London Sales

But prices for Western art shaky as buyers get credit-crisis jitters

(Newser) - Could turmoil in the financial world trigger an art market crash? That was the question on everyone's mind in London over the weekend during the Frieze Art Fair and the first major sales at Christie's and Sotheby's since the credit crisis. Though the fairs and auctions had all the energy...

Five Busted in Monet Vandalism
Five Busted in Monet Vandalism
Oct 10, 2007 5:06 AM CDT

Five Busted in Monet Vandalism

One in drunken pack had link to museum

(Newser) - Four men and a woman have been arrested for allegedly punching a hole in a Monet masterpiece at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. One admitted damaging the painting, and another knew how to access the building through a rear entrance because of a work history with the institution, police...

Vandals Punch Hole in Monet
Vandals Punch Hole in Monet
Oct 8, 2007 2:35 AM CDT

Vandals Punch Hole in Monet

Group broke into Paris museum during all-night culture festival

(Newser) - Four or five people broke into a Paris museum on Sunday and punched a hole in a Monet. The group broke open a back door to the Musee d'Orsay and fled when an alarm sounded, but not before tearing a four-inch hole in "Le Pont d'Argenteuil," a scene...

Scottish Cops Recover Stolen da Vinci in Law Office Raid

Four busted in brazen castle heist

(Newser) - Police in Scotland have recovered a stolen $75 million painting by Leonardo da Vinci in a raid on a top Glasgow law firm that led to four arrests. A lawyer in the firm was among those busted. The "Madonna of the Yarnwinder" was stolen in 2003 from the Duke...

Iran Guards Hidden Art Trove
Iran Guards Hidden Art Trove
Sep 20, 2007 1:47 PM CDT

Iran Guards Hidden Art Trove

Top modern art collection kept in the basement of Iranian museum

(Newser) - A basement chock full of Picassos, Monets, and almost every important Western Modernist painter—surely the Louvre? Au contraire, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. That’s where the LA Times’ Kim Murphy found a treasure trove of painstakingly cared-for paintings that have seen the light of day but once...

Dirt Feels Magnetic Pull
Dirt Feels Magnetic Pull
Sep 4, 2007 1:05 PM CDT

Dirt Feels Magnetic Pull

New iron-flecked gel is used to remove centuries of grime from paintings

(Newser) - Italian researchers have solved an age-old problem of painting conservation with new technology: magnets. Restorers use special gels to work on small areas of a canvas, but removing them has remained a delicate operation that can damage the artwork. Now, Nature reports, chemists at the University of Florence have developed...

Hitler's Bubbly Sparkles at UK Auction

Bottle fetches almost $3,000 but is 'poisoned' or simply undrinkable

(Newser) - A bottle of bubbly nabbed from Hitler’s wine cellar has drawn the equivalent of almost $3,000 at a British auction, the BBC reports. A Swedish television company bought the 1937 Moet and Chandon, which a soldier gave to a lawyer as thanks for legal work some 15 years...

Are They Pollocks or Bollocks?
Are They Pollocks or Bollocks?
Aug 15, 2007 8:42 PM CDT

Are They Pollocks or Bollocks?

Scientist says pigments on the paintings weren't patented while artist was alive

(Newser) - Paintings dug out of an old Hamptons locker might light up the art world with multi-million dollar sales or prove to be utter fakes, Newsweek reports. Marked “Pollock Experiments” and dribbled in the American artist’s style, the small pictures on cardboard will be drawing crowds in Boston next...

Museum Looks Picture-Perfect Online
Museum Looks Picture-Perfect Online
Aug 13, 2007 1:28 PM CDT

Museum Looks Picture-Perfect Online

Dresden gallery gets virtual replica in Second Life

(Newser) - Dresden’s Old Masters Picture gallery is the first museum to create an online clone, now appearing in all its glory—down to the trash cans and fountains—as a location in the virtual reality game Second Life. The building’s 750 paintings have been reproduced digitally, as have the...

Stolen Picassos Recovered
Stolen Picassos Recovered
Aug 9, 2007 5:18 AM CDT

Stolen Picassos Recovered

Trio busted in theft of $66M paintings lifted from Paris home of artist's granddaughter

(Newser) - Two stolen Picassos worth more than $66 million have been recovered by French police who swooped in as the thieves were about to sell the rolled-up canvases. Tipped off by a suspicious art dealer, investigators set up round-the-clock surveillance of  the suspects for more than a month. Three men have...

Art Heist at French Museum
Art Heist at French Museum
Aug 6, 2007 8:29 AM CDT

Art Heist at French Museum

Sisley, Monet lost when gunmen storm French museum in brazen daylight heist

(Newser) - Hooded gunmen stormed a French museum in Nice yesterday afternoon and stole two Brueghel masterpieces, a Sisley, and a Monet. The thieves ordered employees to lie on the floor before stuffing the paintings in bags and fleeing. Police believe the heist was a "special order" for a private buyer...

New Van Gogh Surfaces
New Van Gogh Surfaces
Aug 3, 2007 6:20 PM CDT

New Van Gogh Surfaces

Work created during stay at asylum

(Newser) - A previously undiscovered Van Gogh has been found hiding in plain sight—beneath another painting. Conservators at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts X-rayed The Ravine, revealing another painting created several months earlier, the MFA and the Van Gogh Museum said today. A pen-and-ink drawing of the concealed painting, Wild Vegetation,...

$72M Sale Shatters Warhol Record
$72M Sale Shatters Warhol Record
May 17, 2007 4:33 PM CDT

$72M Sale Shatters Warhol Record

Auction madness continues as contemporary-art market sizzles

(Newser) - An Andy Warhol painting sold for $71.7 million last night at Christie's, more than quadrupling the previous record price for a work by the pop artist. The price for "Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)," part of Warhol's "Death and Disaster" series, more than doubled...

Bubbles Painter Washed Up No Longer
Bubbles Painter Washed Up
No Longer
May 16, 2007 2:42 PM CDT

Bubbles Painter Washed Up No Longer

Britain's Tate plans retrospective on soapy artist Millais

(Newser) - London's Tate Britain gallery is trying to rescue the cred of a Victorian painter whose best known work is synonymous with crass commercialism. Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais is best known for Bubbles, which he sold to the Pears Soap company to make it one of the most reproduced images in...

Rothko Fetches $73 Million
Rothko Fetches $73 Million
May 16, 2007 8:18 AM CDT

Rothko Fetches $73 Million

Record price for seminal modern work marks trend in art purchases

(Newser) - Sotheby’s sold a Mark Rothko painting last night for $72.84 million, a record price for a piece of art created after World War II and a signal of a new boom in the market. Seller David Rockefeller bought the 7-foot-tall "White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender),"...

I Bought Andy Warhol
I Bought Andy Warhol  
Apr 30, 2007 8:26 AM CDT

I Bought Andy Warhol

Pop artist's mass-produced work climbs in price, prestige worldwide

(Newser) - Hipsters have known it forever, and buyers are catching on: Andy Warhol is the hottest artist around. The Times reports that his sales, including a projected $35 million for a painting at Christie’s next month, are second only to Picasso's. One expert calls Warhol "the most important international...

The Decider With the 'Yee Haw' Aesthetic

Blumenthal connects the dots from cowboy art to Abu Ghraib

(Newser) - You can learn a lot from the art in someone's office, says Sidney Blumenthal, even the oval one. George Bush's prized painting of cowboys riding into the unseen helps explain his "stay the course" mentality, while a painting of the Alamo feeds W's evangelically inflected insistence on a "...

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