Passion for Diana

Owner Titian canvas «Diana and Acteon» expressed dissatisfaction that the National Gallery of Scotland has not yet been able to find funds to buy his paintings

The inscription under the portrait of George W. Bush changed at the request of American politics

Senator Bernie Sanders did not like that in a caption the main cause of the invasion of Iraq called the September 11 attacks

Czechs, apologized for the installation Entropa

Yesterday at a press conference in Brussels, representatives of the Czech authorities and the artist David Cerny made a formal apology for the installation Entropa

Sarkozy wants the French to share the arts with Singapore

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he wants to conclude an agreement for Singapore to works of art from the Louvre and other French museums

Photography as an object of investment

Answers to questions ARTinvestment.RU and gives tips for beginning collectors and investors Natalya Grigoryeva, Gallery director named Lumière

Italy actively fighting theft of works of art

Representatives of the Italian police reported that over the past year the total value returned by the State of stolen works of art and antiquities has increased more than twofold

The new building of the Hermitage Amsterdam will open June 20

The new branch building of the Hermitage in Amsterdam «Amstelhof» open to the public after restoration Jun 20, 2009

Draft Entropa: and laughter and controversy

Recently opened in Brussels on the draft lottery and Entropa has caused controversy among politicians

How old is this picture? - Now, scientists know the answer!

Specialists from the U.S. Getty Conservation Institute has recently developed a new method of dating photos

Influential figures of British art-world debate about the restitution

Former Secretary of the Royal Academy, the son of Jewish immigrants, said that restitution is time to stop. Art-community does not agree with him

French museums will be free for young people

Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that from April tour of museums and monuments will be free for those who are less than 25

Prado Museum in Google Earth

Now, the masterpieces of Goya, Velazquez, Bosch and other great artists can be considered to the smallest details, not getting up from the sofa

Metropolitan Museum of tightened rules for acquiring works of ancient art

Guide New York Metropolitan Museum has introduced new rules for the acquisition of archaeological objects and works of ancient art

The most notorious art-crime in 2008

In 2008, the robbers managed to walk away from the museums, galleries and other cultural institutions many items, the total cost - millions of dollars. To the credit of law enforcement, the majority of the most high-profile art crimes last year revealed

National Portrait Gallery in Washington received a gift a portrait of Obama

In the National Portrait Gallery exhibits the work of Washington artist OBAMA HOPE Shepard Feira. This author was famous because of its «aesthetics of propaganda»

Spanish museum has refused to exhibit contemporary art

Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisa, owner of one of the finest private collections of paintings in Europe, has banned his stepdaughter Francesca von Habsburg exhibit in the Museum of Madrid Thyssen-Bornemisa works of modern art

New Tate Modern building design aims at harmonizing

Architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meron updated draft of the new building of Tate Modern gallery

In the New Year's Eve from the Berlin galleries had been stolen more than 30 works of art

Among the stolen works - the works of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges marriage. Their total cost is 250 thousand dollars

Qatar will be three new museum

In 2012, scheduled to open in Qatar Photography Museum, Museum of Modern Arab art, as well as a museum devoted to «the concept of orientalism»

Works from the collection of ING Group sold on eBay

Major financial company ING Group sells part of works from his collection

ISO channel «Culture»

ARTinvestment.RU presents documentaries and the transfer of the fine arts, which can be viewed on the TV «Culture» next week

Louvre breaks records

The number willing to see the exhibition of the Louvre in Paris does not decrease: in 2008 it reached 8.5 million

Damien Hurst does not want his work featured in the film

Directed by Ben Lewis is going to remove the documentaries on the theme «Why modern art is expensive». Some «heroes» of the film is already dissatisfied with

The descendant of Louis XIV in the court lost the organizers of the exhibition Jeff Koons

The exhibition has already ended, but the French aristocrat is not going to leave her alone in the organizers. According to him, they violated the fundamental human rights

In the world of a new Museum of Dali

Museum of the great surrealist opens in St. Petersburg ... but not in Russia but in the U.S. state of Florida

Mobile ... in a museum?

A growing number of museums offer visitors a new service: now listen to a story about the exhibits can be ... dialing from your mobile phone

The exhibition Jeff Koons in Versailles called pornographic

The descendant of Louis XIV will require the closure of the court

Sculpture can make the air cleaner!

The new word in art: artists from Scotland, set up eco-sculpture

Fine Arts. Factor technology for the collector and investor

A variety of visual arts techniques and their impact on the investment potential of products

Tintoretto: «Christmas», or «Crucifixion»?

Employees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts as a result of X-ray analysis found that Tintoretto painting «Christmas» is a «transformed» «Crucifixion»