The security service of Ukraine found four paintings stolen from a Museum in the Netherlands in 2005

We are talking about 4 of the 24 paintings stolen from westfries Museum in Hoorn city. At the end of 2015 the Director of the Museum stated that according to his sources, the paintings are in the hands of Ukrainian nationalists

The Pushkin Museum named after A. S. Pushkin opened its office on the educational website Arzamas

On the website of the educational project Arzamas, which publishes free courses online-лекций and articles on the Humanities, there is now a special project of the Pushkin Museum

Died artist Anatoly Slepyshev

April 13, died honored artist of Russian Federation Anatoliy Stepanovich Slepyshev

The painting, attributed to Caravaggio, presented in France

The second version of the painting "Judith and Holofernes", painted around 1604-1605, was found by chance two years ago in France in the attic of an old house

Palmyra "before" and "after" LIH: PHOTO

What historical monuments we have lost, and what survived — in the Guardian photo story

The Pushkin Museum named after A. S. Pushkin opened an online-магазин

You can buy catalogues for exhibitions, scientific publications, Souvenirs for the permanent Museum exhibition and temporary exhibitions, the textile and goods for children

Panamanian archive helped to know the owner of the painting Modigliani

Modigliani's painting, which is claimed by the heir of Holocaust victims, through the Panama documents found in the collection of the Nahmad dealers

Picture of Piet Mondrian turned into a computer game

The game "MondriPong", or "Pongdrian", is an analogue of Pong — is a simple video game based on ping-понга

Russian avant-garde style the preferred form of our Olympians

At the Olympic games in August 2016, the Russian team will be inspired by the ideas of the constructivists of the 1920s-х years

The computer has created a portrait in the style of Rembrandt on the basis of 160 000 fragments of his works

It took a year and a half to create a computer image that takes into account many signs of the author's manner of Rembrandt

The artist renamed Ekaterinburg in Grayburg

Ural known street artist Slava ptrk changed a few letters in the title Ekaterinburg on the label at the entrance to the city — and turned Grayburg

The artist Boris Matrosov signed a licensing agreement for "Happiness not far off"

Known art-объект established in Perm, could be dismantled, but it did not come

Christie's seeks Director for Moscow office

An application for a job Director Christie@Moscow aposs candidates are waiting until may 3, 2016

In France, may have found a lost painting by Caravaggio

The second version of the painting "Judith and Holofernes", whose mark was lost in the early seventeenth century, it seems, discovered in a private collection in France. The authorship of the work is set

The Gurlitt collection will be shown in the museums of Bonn and Bern

The exhibition will be held in two museums simultaneously in the winter of 2016/2017,

The Hermitage was in the top ten most visited museums in the world in 2015

During the year the State Hermitage Museum was visited by about to 3.67 million people, which enabled him to take 9-е place in the ranking. The first three places went to the Louvre, the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of art

Students at Columbia University protest against the installation in their territory of "creepy" sculpture of Henry Moore

Donated to the University of Moore's bronze "Reclining Nude" in the student article published in the University newspaper, called "the unfinished pterodactyl". Under online-петицией against her installations have subscribed already more than a thousand people

The author of the giant yellow duck Brazilians accused of plagiarism

Dutch artist Hoffman Florentijn who invented an inflatable yellow duck, traveling around the world, believes that the Brazilian opposition is using his creation, only slightly modifying it, in protests against the government

Died architect Zaha Hadid

World-famous architect died of a sudden heart attack at the Miami hospital where she was treated for bronchitis. She was 65 years old

"Ilya Zilbershtein. To 110-летию birthday" in the Pushkin Museum Pushkin

The exhibition can be divided into two unique in its scope and significance of the collection, which the scholar has collected over the 66 years: paintings and drawings, as well as documentary collection

Exhibition of Jeff Koons will be held in the gallery by Damien Hirst

It will be the most ambitious exhibition project Koons in the UK since 2009

Artist Pavel Pepperstein has released her own clothing line

All 15 women's images still exist in a single copy. The basis for prints on dresses and costumes was based on the works of Pavel Pepperstein

Stolen artifacts that 15 years hiding in the Swiss Freeport, returned to Italy

Tens of thousands illegally exported from excavations of the items were intended for sale in the UK, Japan, USA and other countries

In Estonia there were miniature, stolen in Moscow collector

Miniature portrait was supposed to go under the hammer at auction in Tallinn in February of this year, however, on request of the NCB of Interpol of the MIA of Russia withdrew the lot from the auction. Negotiations are underway for him to return

Detained Orthodox activist who participated in the pogrom of the exhibition at the Manege

Lyudmila Esipenko accused of damage of a sculpture by Vadim Sidur

Paintings by Rubens, Tintoretto and other masters, is kidnapped in Verona, found in Moldavia

In the case of the robbery of the Museum in the castle of Castelvecchio, in Verona, in November 2015 arrested 13 people — mostly Moldovans. The cost of the stolen paintings is estimated at €10-15 million

The case of Swiss art-дилера Yves Bouvier — is now in an American court

According to Bloomberg, former owner of the Luxembourg Freeport Yves Bouvier brought the case in the U.S. court. Will deal with allegations not only of Dmitry Rybolovlev, but other former customers

Porters auction Drouot caught "stealing from the dead"

Police have charged 49 movers-"savicev" scale systematic plunder of heirless and other property with use of office position

The FSB conducts searches at the Ministry of culture. Detained the Deputy Minister

Criminal case is raised concerning suspects in the theft of state funds allocated for the restoration works on the objects of cultural heritage

BP was not until the Tate: the company has not extended the sponsorship contract for 2017

26-летнее the cooperation of major oil companies British Petroleum and art galleries the Tate Modern, against which violently protested environmentalists, came to an end