At the University of Reading found a picture of Rubens

Rubens's authorship was established after the pencil sketch on a note found the famous collector of works of the artist in the XVIII century

The British bought the painting by John Constable for 23.1 million pounds

The famous landscape John Constable "Salisbury Cathedral, view from the meadows" was saved from selling abroad. To this union five galleries and national lottery had to pay 23.1 million pounds

The Painted Picasso vandal sentenced to two years in prison

Mexican Uriel Landeros, painted scenes of bullfighting on canvas Picasso's "Woman in a Red Armchair" from the Museum of the Menil Collection in Houston, received a two-year prison term

Dealer Glafira Rosales arrested for withholding taxes on millions of dollars

Art dealer from Long Island Glafira Rosales also suspected of selling counterfeit Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning and others, however, the official in charge of the forgeries it was not presented

Artist of Russia won the main prize of the New York art fair

Street artist from Yekaterinburg Timothy Radya won the top prize Contemporary Art Fair Cutlog Art Fair for his work "Figure#1: Stability", made in the shape of a house of cards from police shields

Half a ton of "Russian national idea" - in Venice, or What is over-art?

May 31 in Venice, an open press conference CF Art Group

More than 500 works of art stolen from the apartment of the late Hungarian collector

From Budapest apartment collector Dej Kovacs, who died in 2002, had been stolen more than 500 works of art. Theft occurred in the period from 2005 to 2013. Among the stolen works are referred to Tintoretto, Utrillo and Klimt

Director of European museums come to Moscow to lecture

Series of lectures "Museums of architecture in the world" begins at the State Museum of Architecture. Schusev May 21

Pre-show Sotheby's will be held in Moscow today and tomorrow

Under the pre-auction display in the group delay "New Arena" will be on display works Goncharova, Yakovleva, Kustodiev, Kandinsky, Jawlensky, Picasso, El Greco and other

Heirs refused to restitution under the pretext that the most important museums of paintings

It's about restorative dispute between the heirs of a Jewish industrialist Richard Semmel and Dutch museums for paintings by Bernardo Strozzi, Jan van Scorel and other Old Masters

The artist "entangled" the New York park nets for catching lobsters

Original installation created in the park at Madison Square artist Orly Dzhendzher. The work is named after a series of works by Barnett Newman's "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue," is a gigantic wave of colored ropes

The authorities chose Venice lamppost Public-Art

Venice authorities decided to remove from the Cape to the museum Punta della Dogana sculpture of a boy with a frog works of American sculptor Charles Ray. The product of public art will replace the copy lamp post XIX century, which once stood on this spo

Metropolitan Museum of Art will return Cambodia Khmer statues

Leaders of the New York Museum became convinced that the two ministers Khmer statues were removed from Cambodia illegally, and decided to return to their homeland

Censorship of ancient sculpture in Qatar angered the Minister of Culture of Greece

The exhibition in Doha antique sculptures of two naked athletes covered with a cloth. Minister of Culture of Greece has asked to remove the covers - instead of sculpture was removed from the exhibition and sent back to Greece

Hungary for the first time spoke of the restitution of works of art

U.S. Court of Appeals did not allow the Hungarian government to reject the 100 millionth suit heirs of Jewish collectors Mora Lipot Herzog

François Pinault will return to China bronze heads of a rat and a rabbit

Controversial artifacts brought from Peking Palace during the Opium Wars, will return to China. The current owner of sculptures by François Pinault said that voluntarily give their China

Turner Prize nominees

The four candidates for one of the most prestigious awards in the field of contemporary art included Tino Sehgal (Tino Sehgal), David Shrigley (David Shrigley), Laura Pruvost (Laure Prouvost) and Lynette Poison-Boakye (Lynette Yiadom-Boakye)

The court sided with Richard Prince in his case against Patrick Cariou

The Court of Appeal found that in 25 of the 30 series of works Canal Zone Richard Prince "lawful use" photographer Patrick Cariou. The case of the remaining five papers back to the District Court

The State Duma adopted the law "On the philanthropic activities"

Patrons want to encourage tax incentives, honors, awards, perpetuating their name on objects philanthropic activities

At home, Mark Rothko Art Centre was opened in his name

In the Latvian city of Daugavpils, in the early twentieth century, which was part of the Russian Empire under the name of Dvinsk, opened a museum of world famous artist Mark Rothko (Marcus Rotkovicha)

Charity auction in the gallery "field" (Ekaterinburg)

The artist Svetlana Schavlevoy-Sivkova need help

Venetian campanile of St Marks restored

Over a five-year restoration of the bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. The base campanile beams strengthened with titanium, which should protect it from settling and roll

Nominees of the BP Portrait Award

This year the number of nominees for the National Portrait Gallery UK reduced from four to two. Claim the prize John Devane and Susan du Toit

Gallery Red October will be looking for a new place - not in the "Red October"

In the gallery on the Red October "Red October" is held the last exhibition, titled "A dog's life." But a joint project of Vladimir Ovcharenko and the company "Guta-Development" does not fold, it just podyschut new h

Portraits of kangaroo and dingo George Stubbs wants to buy Australia

National Gallery of Australia eager to buy his collection of work by British artist George Stubbs - "Kangaroo from New Holland" and "Portrait of a big dog (dingo)." While the British government imposed a temporary ban on the export of

The Americans returned to Spain stolen tapestry XVI century

Tapestry was stolen from a church in Aragon in 1979

Painting by Charles Le Brun found at the "Ritz", sold for 1.5 million euros

"The victim was Polyxena" bought the Metropolitan Museum of Art

U.S. dealers wonder, young rich "Internet users" do not buy art

An interesting observation made Journalists New York Times: worlds of young IT-elite and elite art market virtually no overlap. And it is, in their view, not only in the unwillingness of the first to join the beautiful, but also in the close of the secon

The history of "Renoir from a flea market" has taken an unexpected turn

Who gets the Renoir landscape - the museum from which it was stolen in 1951, or the former physical education teacher, allegedly bought the painting for $ 7 at a flea market? We say "allegedly" because the whole story of "bloshinkoy"

April 18 Moscow city and federal museums will be free

April 18 the capital celebrates the International Day for Monuments and Sites. Museums and cultural institutions will be working late. Many will prepare special programs