Director of Tate Gallery prepares «garage»

British director Nicholas Serota Tate Gallery can be a consultant to the center of modern culture «garage», initiated the creation and the director of which is Daria Zhukova

Deserved worker of culture

Mikhail Shvydkoi appointed Special Representative of the President for International Cultural Cooperation

Tretyakov - artist: let's form our relationship

The State Tretyakov Gallery has published on its official website appeal to artists, deputy director of the Tretyakov Gallery on the scientific work of Irina Lebedeva

Negligence is destroying the beauty. The most high-profile casualties of art

From the British newspaper The Independent Sophie Morris reports on accidents that occurred with some works of art

Collector fight for the authenticity of the picture

Joan Rogers of Arizona bought the painting in 1969, signed by Jackson Pollock. But soon the picture selected and declared a forgery. More than thirty years sobiratelnitsa beats for the recognition of the true

Former Sex Pistols manager, opened the bitter truth Damien Hirst

At the time, Hurst bought many clothes in the style of «punk», which was allegedly fired Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood. But McLaren had informed him that the counterfeit clothes

Stolen works of art fascists can be identified by the legitimate owners

The Berlin museum of German history (Deutsches Historisches Museum) was opened on its website a database of paintings and objects of decorative art owned by Adolf Hitler, known as Lintsskaya Collection

«The Ninth Wave» falshivok on the world art market

Hundreds of counterfeit Savrasov and Shishkin left our clandestine workshops in museums in Russia and the West

Scandalous art as a reason for the hunger strike?

Italian officials announced a hunger strike to protest against the scandalous display of sculptures by Martin Kippenbergera in the local museum of contemporary art during the visit of the Pope in the province of South Tyrol

Canvas stolen Caravaggio

From the Odessa museum have stolen Caravaggio painting «Taking Christ into custody, or the Kiss of Judas»

Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the Chinese copy?

Amateur historian Gavin Menzis published a new book «1434: the year when the great Chinese fleet sailed to Italy and launched the Renaissance», where he argues that Leonardo in the creation of his famous drawings used pictures of Chinese sailors

Amedeo Modigliani channel «Culture»

August 2, channel «Culture» shows a feature film «Modigliani»

Tretyakov denied the claim in a complaint to the Sokolov

Moscow City Court on 31 July declared legitimate the denial of the claim on the protection of business reputation of the Tretyakov Gallery to the former Minister of Culture and Mass Communications of Russia Alexander Sokolov, the newspaper «MK» and journa

Under the «Loskutov herbs» detected an unknown Van Gogh painting

Using new technology to scientists from Belgium and the Netherlands was found under a layer of colorful pictures female portrait

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In 2005, the London auction was sold to the figure «unknown master», which later was created the famous Luke Leiden. Recently, work has acquired for his collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum

Art does not tolerate the noise

The experts supported the position of the Hermitage in the fight against the concert on Palace Square

Contemporary Art - modern stuff

Director of the Department of Contemporary Art and International Cultural Relations, Ministry of Culture of Russia appointed Alexei Shalashov, who until then the general director of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic

Investment ideas on the art market. Thought number 2. Investments in the work of Oleg Tselkova

At ARTinvestment.RU published another story cycle, which deals with investment ideas - for options for collecting and investing in the market of art. The publication focuses on the work of Oleg Tselkova

Shortage in museum collections: possibly inflated figures

The heads of the leading museums in the country stated that the results of the auditing committee of museum funds to make any conclusions premature

«Functional Sculpture» - a new fashion trend

Sofa «D» Ron Arad - is ultramodny of designer furniture or works of contemporary art? According to columnist The Independent, for that matter, nobody can answer clearly

On the collective management of copyright and related rights

Published «Announcement of the state accreditation organizations engaged in the management of copyright and related rights on a collective basis»

The state examination in the export of cultural property

Temporarily exported cultural property provided for the state examination twice: before and after removal of the return to Russia. That is the prescription of law. New Publication ARTinvestment.RU under the heading «Art: Economics and Law»

Russian collectors are ready to make its collection of public

Interviews, Artistic Director of the Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) Leonid Bazhanov RIA Novosti

The state examination on the export of cultural property

All the cultural treasures, declared for export shall be subject to mandatory review. That is the prescription of law. New Publication ARTinvestment.RU under the heading «Art: Economics and Law»

More and more people are borrowing on the security of works of art

The banks and auction houses offer their customers various options for mortgage loans of works from their collections. The higher up the market of art so popular that practice

The law protects the animals from the artists

In San Francisco, a bill that the mistreatment of animals, «art to» be considered a criminal offense

Programs for visual arts channel «Culture»

Announcement of TV programs «Culture», devoted to artists and art museums

To understand contemporary art can only specialists

Director of the Tretyakov Gallery considers necessary to carry out re-examination of art in the exhibition «Forbidden Art»

China Customs does not understand irony

Chinese artist Zhang junta posted his pictures from the United States for the exhibition in Beijing, but the container was detained at customs: it seems it had felt that an ironic painting irrelevant when it comes to the Olympics

«Forbidden Art» gone to trial

In Moscow, sent to court a criminal case into the exhibition «Forbidden Art - 2006»