The window, in the Metz cathedral, was designed and made by Marc Chagall in 1963 and depicted Adam and Eve. At the weekend intruders broke into the church, stole a few objects and broke the window – leaving a hole about 24 by 16 inches. Officials at the Metz-based culture ministry said the perpetrators had [...]
Wanted: the owners of 137 artworks discovered in an apartment in Manhattan, suspected stolen. The FBI is appealing for owners to come forward to claim the paintings and sculptures that were found in the Upper East Side – some of them stuffed under a bed – in one of the more unusual mysteries to fall [...]
The Long Beach Museum of Art received several gifts of prints by artist Robert Rauschenberg in the 1970s and 1980s. A selection of prints is on view in the Museum’s Ridder Gallery June 20 through October. Rauschenberg was instrumental in changing the approach to printmaking in fine art studios. Publisher Tatyana Grosman of Universal Limited [...]
Richard Serra. One of the titans of modern art, Richard Serra, best known for his huge, emotionally moving steel sculptures, is to have his first solo exhibition in Britain since 1992. Serra is creating three large sculptures for an exhibition at the Gagosian galleries in London, the Guardian can reveal. It will be his first [...]
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) is widely acknowledged as the greatest Baroque sculptor for his monumental works such as Apollo and Daphne (1622–25) and the Ecstasy of St. Theresa (1647–52). His unparalleled talent as a portrait sculptor transformed the practice and earned him the patronage of the Catholic Church and nobility in 17th- century Rome, as [...]
Richard Wilson has been described as Britain’s most famous installation artist. He is perhaps best known as the man who sold Charles Saatchi a thousand gallons of used sump oil, and, having represented Britain at the Sydney, Sao Paulo and Venice Biennales and made major museum shows and public works in countries such as Mexico, [...]
Caravaggio’s Taking of Christ, or the Kiss of Judas was stolen from the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in the Black Sea port of Odessa. Museum staff found that the work was missing from its frame. The thieves cut it from its frame. The museum was closed on the previous day, so the thieves [...]