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NETHERLANDS NEW VAN GOGH

2010-03-11T08:32:26Z

This image released by Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, March 11, 2010, shows a painting entitled "The Bedroom", by Vincent van Gogh. One of van Gogh's most famous paintings, "The Bedroom," has been taken away for restoration, but art lovers don't ha...

Van Gogh work 'The Bedroom' undergoes restoration

2010-03-11T08:17:39Z

<div id="subtitle">Famous Van Gogh work 'The Bedroom' undergoing restoration before museum blog's cameras</div><div><p>One of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings, "The Bedroom," has been taken away for restoration, but art lovers don't have to miss it. They can follow the cleanup on a blog, the Van Gogh Museum said Thursday.</p><p>...

Masterworks from Ohio museum summer in New York City

2010-03-11T07:46:14Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - One museum's renovations are another's exhibition. Thus, 20 masterworks from Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum in Ohio will summer at Italy (Reuters Life!) - Six possible descendants of Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, have been DNA-tested in the hopes they can help unveil the mystery surrounding the painter's death.</p><p>The cause of death in 1610 and the ...

Milwaukee museum to show Raphael painting

2010-03-10T11:45:43Z

<div id="subtitle">Rarely seen Italian Renaissance painting will be on view at Milwaukee Art Museum</div><div><p>Rarely lent from the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy, Raphael Sanzio's painting "The Woman with the Veil" is making its last ...

Artist Lucian Freud takes top-billing in Paris

2010-03-08T06:16:14Z

<div><p>After mostly ignoring his work for decades, Paris is giving Britain's Lucian Freud top billing in a show touted as a fresh encounter with one of the world's most expensive living artists.</p><p>The grandson of Sigmund Freud, the inven...

Dutch Hermitage museum hosts 'pioneers of Modernism'

2010-03-05T10:19:03Z

<div><p>Works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Kazimir Malevich and other "pioneers of Modernism" will be on display at the Hermitage in Amsterdam from Saturday, the museum said.</p><p>Entitled "Matisse to Malevich", the exhibition will contain a...

matt damon

2010-03-03T18:02:12Z

Matt Damon and his wife Luciana checking out Thom Rauchfuss paintings at 'Lacke Farben' gallery on Brunnenstrasse street. Berlin, Germany - 02.03.20

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APTOPIX Chile Earthquake

2010-03-01T23:16:23Z

A painting of Jesus Christ hangs from a damaged house in Iloca, Chile, Monday, March 01, 2010. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Chile early Saturday. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

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Mexico recovers 2 stolen 18th century paintings

2010-02-26T13:53:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Mexican authorities recover 18th century paintings stolen from church in 2008</div><div><p>Mexican authorities have found two 18th century paintings stolen from a church two years ago.</p><p>The National Anthropology Institute says the paintings — "The Adoration of the Three Kings" and "The Birth of the Virgin" — were found in an art gallery in

Swiss art museum founder Ernst Beyeler dies at 88

2010-02-26T07:32:01Z

<div id="subtitle">Legendary art collector, founder of renowned Swiss art museum Ernst Beyeler dies, aged 88</div><div><p>Ernst Beyeler, whose early eye for undervalued Picassos and Impressionists helped him assemble one of Europe's most famous art collections, has died, his Beyeler Foundation said Friday...

Russia's influence on Picasso feted in Moscow

2010-02-26T07:00:26Z

<div><p>MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's influence on Pablo Picasso was celebrated at a new Moscow exhibit on the Spanish painter, sculptor and co-founder of the Cubism movement.</p><p>Picasso paintings of bulging-eyed women and sculptures bearing his trademark triangu...

New Van Gogh painting authenticated

2010-02-24T10:17:08Z

<div><p>A 19th century painting of a Paris mill has been confirmed as the work of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, 35 years after its owner first made the claim, a museum in the Netherlands said Wednesday.</p><p>The painting was authenticated by the Reuters) - A new Caravaggio exhibition has opened in Rome to mark the 400th anniversary of the Baroque master's death and to re-focus attention on his artistic prowess rather than his notoriously wild life.</p><p>"This is pure Caravaggio, the...

Experts authenticate Van Gogh windmill painting

2010-02-24T08:00:40Z

<div><p>AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A painting of a windmill newly attributed to the Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh went on display on Wednesday after spending decades in the depot of a Dutch provincial museum.</p><p>After experts at Amsterdam's

Monet comes face to face with abstract in Madrid

2010-02-22T07:15:14Z

<div><p>MADRID (Reuters Life!) - Making the connection between one of the leaders of the impressionist movement, Claude Monet, and abstract art is the main aim of a new exhibition in the Spanish capital.</p><p>More than 100 works to be shown from Monday in Madrid's MADRID (Reuters Life!) - Making the connection between leading Impressionist painter Claude Monet and abstract art is the main aim of a new exhibition in the Spanish capital.</p><p>More than 100 works to be shown from Monday in Madrid's Caravaggio paintings ever collected in one city with an exhibit set to open Saturday to celebrate the 400th year of the painter's death, organisers said.</p><p>The Scuderie del Quirinale Museum in central Rome is hosting 24 of the master's 64 paintings, organisers told reporte...

Monet contrasted with abstract art at Madrid exhibit

2010-02-22T08:10:46Z

&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;A major exhibition of works by Claude Monet opens in Madrid on Tuesday with organisers hoping it will give a "new vision" of the French artist by comparing him to his successors, the great names of abstract art.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 107 paintings, most of them works by Monet, will be on display at the Museum Thyss...

Rome exhibit showcases Italian master Caravaggio

2010-02-22T08:20:20Z

&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Rome exhibit showcases Italian master Caravaggio with works gathered from across Europe, US&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The master of light, shadow and emotion is back on center stage after 400 years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An exhibition o...