Japanese museums will withdraw from exhibition three paintings purported to be by Marc Chagall because of claims that they are forgeries. The Marc Chagall Committee, a Paris-based group authorized to authenticate work by the Franco-Russian artist, has told the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo that the paintings attributed to Chagall in a recent exhibition [...]

La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, inaugurates the 11th International Architecture Exhibition titled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, and directed by Aaron Betsky. The Exhibition will take place from Sunday September 14th through Sunday November 23rd 2008. According to Aaron Betsky – for six years director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in [...]

Including a whole new body of work that covers the complete range of Hirst’s output and more, the auction will run over two days, commencing with an Evening Sale on Monday, 15 September, and continuing throughout the following day (Tuesday, 16 September) with a morning and afternoon session. The two day sale, which will include [...]

Dewdrops on dainty petals, light glancing off precious silverware, candied confectionery in blue and white Chinese porcelain bowls, the soft plumage of a dead songbird, the pale hue of a skull – still lifes have not ceased to exercise their spell upon us to this day with their close-up views of inanimate, yet by no [...]

Five men have appeared in court accused of demanding £4.25m for the safe return of a Leonardo da Vinci painting. The Madonna with the Yarnwinder was taken from Drumlanrig Castle, near Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, in August 2003. Its disappearance from the stately home became Britain’s biggest art theft; an international hunt for the painting [...]

Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava defended his bridge today from the critics. The bridge in Venice is a work that breaks with the architecture of the city being the first bridge constructed in 125 years. The bridge has been baptized as the Constitution Bridge. This is the fourth bridge that goes over the Grand Canal and [...]

Artistic talent often runs in the blood. That was certainly the case with the De Bray family, a clan of devout Catholic painters active in Haarlem in north Holland during the heyday of the Dutch Golden Age. In all likelihood, you won’t have come across the De Brays, who have been eclipsed by their more [...]