Topic: Visual Arts
AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-17 19:10:15
An exhibit comparing Spanish painter Francisco Goya with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso opened on Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. "Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engravings. It sets out to show how "Goya was a precursor of contemporary art: a disturbing, lucid, scathing, sarcastic personality capable to depict human ...
AP News | 2010-03-17 15:37:04
Dutch police arrest 2 suspects in museum art heist; stolen paintings still missing
Dutch police say they have arrested two men suspected of involvement in an art heist last year in which masked and armed men snatched two paintings, including one by Salvador Dali, from a museum. The robbers stole "Adolescence," a 1941 gouache by Dali and "La Musicienne," an ...
AP News | 2010-03-17 15:15:56
Giovanna Bertazzoni, right, Christie's auction house head of Impressionist and Modern Art department, poses for the photographers in front of a 1903 Pablo Picasso painting entitled 'Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto' (The Absinthe Drinker), during a press view ...
AP News | 2010-03-17 15:15:53
Giovanna Bertazzoni, right, Christie's auction house head of Impressionist and Modern Art department, poses for the photographers in front of a 1903 Pablo Picasso painting entitled 'Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto' (The Absinthe Drinker), during a press view ...
