Painting News

“Given huge volumes of advertising that we carry, we won't get it right every time”

Venus Standing in a Landscape, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, was initially considered too sexy for London Underground. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“We're not your average motorcycle people”

STAFFORD, Va. - Homer Wright and his fiancee, Deborah Raymond, are out to dispel sterotypes, and help the Virginia Tech Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund in the process. via Hampton Roads Daily Press

“His reputation has grown steadily from the early 1990s when he began to be recognized and marked out”

Peter Doig's Grand Riviere 2002. An exhibition at the Tate in London looks at the artist who was often seen as out of touch at a time when conceptual art eclipsed figurative painting in the media's eyes. via National Post

It's not often the Vatican goes on a road show. When you're one of the planet's foremost cultural and religious institutions, the world tends to come to you. via Ocala.com

“We're shocked. We wouldn't have put a poster design forward if we thought it was offensive . . . We actually thought it was quite an innocent painting.”

London's transport authority is blushing over an art museum advertising poster featuring the 16th century "Venus" by German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, and won't post it on trains, saying it is overtly ... via Boston Herald

“That was only the second one I had ever done and I thought it was the hardest at the time”

McKinney High senior Matt Lawless works on a drawing. His airbrushed self-portrait will hang in the State Capitol. via Star Community Newspapers

An $8 million painting by renowned 1980s artist Jean-Michel Basquiat turned up in a Manhattan warehouse after disappearing from an imprisoned Brazilian banker's now-confiscated art collection, federal prosecutors said.

Prosecutors filed papers Wednesday seeking to seize the 1982 work, called 'Hannibal,' in an effort to help Brazilian authorities claim it.

Its last known owner was Edemar Cid Ferreira, the former owner of Banco Santos and one of Brazil's largest art collectors. The bank went bankrupt in September 2005, leaving behind debts of over $1 billion. Read more

“Millions of people travel on the London Underground each day and they have no choice but to view whatever adverts are posted there”

Wearing nothing but necklaces and a small smile, a centuries-old painting of naked Venus is deemed too risque for the eyes of Londoners traveling on public transport. via The New Zealand Herald

“Our restoration department examined some 70 paintings with X-rays, with infrared technology and paint tests to deconstruct and explain the painters' techniques for an exhibition starting in two weeks”

A GERMAN said overnight it had discovered that its prized Monet painting The Seine at Port Villez is a fake. via News.com.au

“It is a very bad experience because as museum director you live with these pictures day in day out, you become attached to them like family”

ZURICH : Armed robbers stole four important paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and Cezanne from a museum in Zurich, the Swiss authorities announced Monday, in what they said might have been the largest art ... via International Herald Tribune

“It is impossible to estimate the value of the painting. "But it is Norway's most valuable, Munch's most renowned, and it would be impossible to sell.”

Video and audio from the BBC News archive WWII and 1950-2005. This site is archived and no longer updated. via BBC

“Fine art is an area of the creative realm that has been tapped into to spread the gospel”

Police warn of voter registration scam Virginia State Police investigators are looking into more than a dozen reports from residents across the state who said they have received unsolicited phone calls about ... via Galax Gazette

Missing: one very famous painting ... Poppies near Vetheuil, by Claude Monet. Photograph: AFP Six masterpieces, worth around 80m, stolen in two raids, five days apart, in one country - it's been quite a week in ... via MediaGuardian.co.uk

“These people knew exactly where to go”

Wearing ski masks and dark clothes, three men walked into a private museum in Zurich, Switzerland, shortly before it closed Sunday afternoon and in three minutes made off with four of its most valuable ... via Baltimore Sun

“Several lots sold for spectacular prices.”

While the real canines were cavorting across town at the annual Westminster Kennel Club show, a group of dog paintings, statues, fancy collars and other items snapped up a total of $700,000 at an auction house. via AMNY

Categories: Local Art Recently there was a photo article on pennlive.com about the Gettysburg Cyclorama restoration. via Iridescent Art News By John Firestone