Son associated with the Nazi art-дилера vain hung all the sins?

So far only about 5 of 1 500 works of the collection Gurlitt we can say that they are of criminal origin. Observers are disappointed with the results of a two-year investigation

Bought a purse Picasso want to cut 150,000 pieces and give "the shareholders"

This is done for fun. Entertainment now are. Council on such pokerstrateg destroying its cultural values and almost no

Actor Nicolas cage has sent his skull to Mongolia

Purchased by the actor on the auction of the skull of Tyrannosaurus was stolen

The dead are not cast bronze. All bronze Degas art historians say not the author

Master never did bronze sculptures and was categorically against this idea

Nikas Safronov stole 4 paintings of 8 000 000 rubles

After the exhibition in Ulyanovsk artist Safronov were missing paintings "Battle cat retired", "the Lightness of being, or the Naked truth", "father's Portrait in Italian costume of the Doge" and "Freedom, or Bird life in the cage"

"Rybolovlev vs Bouvier" entered the top art-скандалов 2015

Inflated prices, defrauding the trust, sell the stolen works — collector and dealer suing a big way

Dissatisfied with American requires the Fund Konchalovsky $ 800,000

Instead of suing Sotheby's, the American filed a lawsuit to the Russian Fund, recognize a fake picture

The Ministry of culture awaits the growth of philanthropic support of public museums 10 times

The funds allocated by commercial enterprises to support the state's cultural institutions, can move to the cost. Not now, but soon. The Ministry of culture waits 10-кратного growth in philanthropic support

Canvas Caravaggio rats gnawed through and ate up the pig. But drew it from scratch

Scientists-реставраторы from the lab Factum Arte reconstructed kidnapped 55 years ago a painting by Caravaggio for the altar of the chapel

XI retro-маркет "Losinka", December 19-20, 2015

Galleries and private collectors offer Antiques and things that were created before 1950, — in Antique Saturday 19 December, bags, jewelry and the best designer clothes 1950-70-х — in Vintage on Sunday 20 December

The staff of Sotheby's with pleasure resigned at own will

To reduce no one will have

Version of the "Mona Lisa" in Russia?

In a private collection in St.-Петербурге, perhaps there is another authentic version of Leonardo da Vinci

The Metropolitan Museum has filed a lawsuit from-за "racist" pictures of a white Christ

One of black visitors new-йоркского Museum was so much outraged by the fact that the paintings by Tintoretto, Perugino and other Christ and the saints depicted with white skin and blond hair that gave the Metropolitan Museum of art in court

"New-Йорк. 80-е. We" Mikhail Shemyakin in the Theater of Stas Namin

A play on the history of Russian emigration in new-Йорке, will play on 16 and 17 December. In the premiere screenings will be attended by the author, and Willy Tokarev

The Turner prize winner became a group of 18 architects under 30 years of age

Assemble a group of leading British received the award in the field of contemporary art for the project of reconstruction of the abandoned houses in one of the oldest districts of Liverpool

French scientist: "the "Mona Lisa" is another portrait"

Pascal Cotte for 10 years he studied the famous "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci using reflected light. He claims that the original portrait of the model looking to the side and has a mysterious smile

The Ukrainian nationalists have demanded the repayment at a Dutch Museum for the paintings, stolen in 2005

The Director of the westfries Museum said that the members of the battalion "OUN" demanded a ransom of € 50 million (later lowered the request to 5 million euros) for the return of the 24 paintings stolen from Museum

Announced short list of nominees for the Kandinsky prize

Among the nominees — Elena Elagina and Igor Makarevich, the group Recycle, Olga kroytor and other

BRAFA 2016 to speak in the language of flowers!

Brussels art fair BRAFA 2016 will be held January 23-31

Cancelled the cross year of culture of Russia and Turkey

This was announced by the Minister of culture. To hold it planned in 2017 and 2018

Swedish auction house buys the fakes back

Auction house Bukowskis ("Bukowskis") decided to buy back 6 paintings, recognized fake. One of them at a cost to the auction house in the 5 million Swedish kronor

The last verses of Vysotsky bought for 200 thousand euros at auction in Paris

25 November at Drouot auction site exhibited were owned by Marina Vlady items related to Vladimir Vysotsky. The death mask of the poet bought for 55 thousand euros

"Hand-job" — exhibition-ярмарка of old and new objects created manually

November 28, offers furniture and furnishings, carpets, clothing, jewelry, toys, Souvenirs, Handicrafts, ethnics, etc.

The Rijksmuseum offers visitors to draw, instead of doing a selfie

State Museum (Rijksmuseum) in the city of Amsterdam wants to distract its visitors from gadgets, giving them free paper and pencils for sketches

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have found could be the oldest jewelry in the world

Gold pendant found in the settlement Solmizate near the city of Varna, around 6 300 years

The end of the freemen of the Swiss reportov: owners of the cells in storage will be obliged to indicate their contents

Moreover, managers reporthow will register the names of owners of items located in the cell, and the names of the buyers for those items that leave the store

At the National gallery in London want to sue a portrait of Matisse

And it is not about restitution in favor of the heirs of Holocaust victims

Sotheby's offered its employees to quit voluntarily

Thus, the auction house decided to cut costs. If you want to voluntarily leave their positions with generous otstupny would not have to resort to planned staff reductions

Paintings by Rubens and Tintoretto stolen in Verona

Only Museum in the fortress of Castelvecchio, in Verona, was stolen 17 works worth about 15 million euros