It is not rare for people to dream of calling a real Rembrandt their own, because the Dutch painter has attained mythical status the world over. But his fellow countryman George Kremer is one of the very few who has actually realised this “boy`s dream”. Rembrandt’s “Bust of an Old Man with Turban” is one [...]
Telegraph.co.uk When I turn up at his London studio, Gary Hume is fast asleep. His assistant lets me in, and soon afterwards he shambles into view, rubbing bloodshot eyes. Wearing paint-splattered jeans, and with thick silver bristles flecking his face, he looks like he has spent a week getting well and truly wasted. In fact, [...]
N.Y. Times. Twenty-four hours before Art Basel’s invitation-only opening on Tuesday, scores of the art elite gathered, sheeplike, on a wooden ramp at a related event in a cavernous installation space. Word had spread that there was something exciting to see: a dusty old train car whose windows flashed black-and-white images of troubled moments from [...]
Telegraph.co.uk In 1842, Richard Dadd, a popular and gifted artist of 24, set off from London on a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East with Sir Thomas Phillips, a former mayor of Newport, who had employed him to document their journey in drawings and paintings. Within a year, however, Dadd had returned to [...]
Art objects inspire many reactions, perhaps most crucially acts of preservation or destruction. From 1979 to late 2001, destruction had the upper hand in Afghanistan. The Soviet-Afghan war, the ensuing civil war and finally the pernicious rule of the Taliban inflicted incalculable losses on active archaeological sites and ancient monuments and artworks.
In March 2001 the [...]
A portrait stashed in a bank vault in Athens could be the last painting Vincent van Gogh produced, according to some art experts and collectors who are attempting to determine the authenticity of the picture found among the possessions of a Greek world war two resistance fighter.
The discovery of the work, along with a notebook [...]
At first glance it seems a straightforward if animated photograph of Israeli soldiers in a mess hall: uniformed young men chatting, pouring, laughing, smoking at a set of utilitarian tables bearing metal bowls and nondescript food. But it doesn’t take long to sense that the scene is spiritually and sexually charged. The men are a [...]
