Inside the Buddha statue was found the mummy of a monk, of which 1 100 years

The Chinese claim that the statue was stolen from a Chinese village in 1995. Recently this statue showed at the exhibition in Budapest. Her current owner — Dutch private collector

Russian antique salon — from 28 March to 5 April in the CHA

This Friday at the Central House of artists XXXVIII Russian antique salon. Over 150 exhibitors will present products, worthy to decorate the most authoritative collection

The court ordered the former electrician Picasso to return more than 250 works by the artist

The court found 75-летнего Pierre Le Henneke guilty of concealing stolen property

Baron Eric de Rothschild wants to sell two portrait by Rembrandt for 150 million euros

Paired portraits of Martin Almanza and Open Coppit not left the territory of France since 1877. The public protests against a possible sale

TEFAF 2015: the most significant stands and large transactions

At the largest antique fair, held annually in the Netherlands Maastricht, exhibited newfound van Gogh drawing

Published a new book about the artist Simon Kozhin

In the new album published about 270 scenic and more than 30 graphic works by contemporary Russian artist Seeds of L. Kozhina, as well as articles about his work

The USA returned to Iraq over 60 illegally exported artifacts

Among the returned items — pottery, glass, bronze. The main value of — limestone head of the Assyrian king

The researcher saw the painting of van Gogh dedication Leonardo da Vinci

In the famous painting of van Gogh's "Night cafe terrace" encrypted dedication to "the last supper" by Leonardo da Vinci, — believes researcher Jared Baxter

The Vatican is blackmailing the person who stole in 1997, two letters of Michelangelo

Anonymous blackmailer demanded a ransom in the amount of 100 thousand euros for the return of the two autographs Michelangelo, stolen from the library of the Vatican in 1997

Archive of Hildebrandt Gurlitt will be digitized and posted on the Internet

Relatives collector-затворника Cornelius Gurlit reported that all letters, documents and photographs of works, which belonged to his father Hildebrandt will be until the end of September published online

Art-рынок in 2014: overview TEFAF

World art-рынок in 2014 reached a total turnover of more than 51 billion euros — best in the history

In the former ZIL plant in Moscow will open a branch of the Hermitage

About this signed agreement between the Director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky and OJSC "Group LSR". Tentatively branch of work in 2018

Sergei Kapkov goes as head of the Department of culture of Moscow

It will be replaced by the head of the Moscow cultural heritage Department Alexander Kibovsky

In Turkey found a picture of van Gogh's signature

Police in the city of Tokat confiscated the painting "Man from the orphanage. Standing", which is the signature of van Gogh and label Museum Dahlem

The Austrian government decided not to pay restitution "Beethoven frieze" by Gustav Klimt

The heirs demanded his return, calling the forced sale of 1973. Austrian Committee for the restitution did not agree

Militants IGIL leveled ruins of the Assyrian city of Nimrud

Militants IGIL plundered and razed to the ground by bulldozers ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud 30 km from Mosul

Mikhail Piotrovsky proposes to develop criteria for identifying candidates for the position of Museum Directors

Such a statement he made at the meeting on March 5, 2015 at the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation round table "Museums of Russia. Problems and prospects"

Rembrandt's painting of the Berlin picture gallery much "tweaking" its owner in the XVIII century

The experts found that Rembrandt Susanna and the elders (1647) in the eighteenth century changed one of its owners — presumably, it was the artist Joshua Reynolds

The skeleton of a horse was replaced by the blue rooster on the Fourth plinth

A new landmark Trafalgar square for the next year — sculpture of Hans Haacke "Gift horse", which is a bronze skeleton horse

CHA opens tomorrow XVIII Moscow international art salon

The leading portion of the exposition will consist of works of artists of the CIS countries, selected by the unions of artists of these countries

Alexander Ney evicted from his new-йоркской workshop from-за too high rents

The artist, who lived in Manhattan since 1974, is forced to move to the village artists Husic-Фолс (state of new-Йорк). Before March 19, he needs to take some 4,000 works from new-йоркской apartments

From the Chinese Museum in the castle of Fontainebleau stolen the most valuable artifacts

The robbery took place on Sunday 1 March. Thieves stole 15 major exhibits, including the crown of the king of Siam, donated in 1861 Napoleon III

In Australia stole 120-килограммового bronze giraffe

Sunday night in Brisbane stole a huge sculpture of a giraffe standing at the entrance to the veterinary clinic

Islamists destroyed the ancient Assyrian sculptures in the Museum of Mosul

Armed with picks, hammers, drills, radical Islamists have destroyed the most valuable monuments of world culture — sculptures of Assyria and Hellenistic periods

Picasso painting stolen in France, found in the U.S.

Cubist Picasso 1911, stolen from the Pompidou Centre in 2001, was sent to America under the guise of a Christmas gift in the normal package, valued at $ 37

Internet-продажи art for the year increased approximately twice

Online-аукционы art are developing even faster than predicted. These findings analytical Skate company based on the sales of the four largest in the world Internet-площадок selling art

Banksy made a documentary about his trip to Gaza

Meanwhile, vandal messed up the last remaining in Germany Banksy mural

Branch of the Russian Museum opens in Malaga on March 25

This will be Europe's first foreign branch RM. The first permanent exhibition, called "Russian art of the XV — twentieth centuries", will show about 100 works Venetsianov, Repin, Alexander, Chagall, Rodchenko and others

The militants of the Islamic state burned about 8,000 books and manuscripts in the city of Mosul

Is the mass destruction of books and manuscripts that do not conform to the ideology of radical Islamist groups. Rare manuscripts can get on the black market

The heirs of a Jewish art-дилеров want to sue the German "Treasure Welf"

The collection of Church art worth $ 276 million was in 1934 purchased from group art-дилеров Hermann Goering. Their heirs claim that the sale was forced. They filed for Germany in a U.S. court