Tag: Art History
National Film Archive helps the world celebrate its heritage
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The National Film and Sound Archives have uncovered some interesting film methods while restoring a collection from the early 1900s.[MORE]
Art looted by Soviets turns up in London
Lithographs that once belonged to a German duke and vanished when the Soviets occupied parts of Germany after World War II, have turned up at Sotheby's in London, a spokesman for the auction house said.[MORE]
Graffiti artists leave their mark on Athens
Greek tragedy or contemporary art form? Taggers make their mark on Athens monuments.[MORE]
Abstract works on display in Hobart
A new exhibition featuring the work of the late Grace Crowley, has opened at the Tasmanian Museum and Art gallery. [MORE]
Italy seeks chief curator to dust off museums
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Italy is seeking a chief curator to run its museums in a plan to halt the decay of some heritage icons.[MORE]
Berlusconi gets flak for covering up famous nude
The Italian Government has been criticised by art lovers, academics and historians for covering the breast of a female nude in a reproduction of famous Renaissance painting Truth by Giambattista Tiepolo. [MORE]
Rare Vanuatu art goes on show
A rare art collection from a remote island in Vanuatu is creating a buzz in the art world.[MORE]
Resources boom 'putting Aboriginal rock art at risk'
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Aboriginal rock art is at risk of being by the country's resources boom, experts say.[MORE]
More concern over sculpture plans
Tasmania's Aboriginal community is angry that the Hobart City Council didn't seek its input into a proposed art work for the Sandy Bay foreshore.[MORE]
Police quiz man over Shakespeare folio theft
Police are quizzing a man over the theft of a rare collection of works by William Shakespeare stolen from Durham University 10 years ago.[MORE]
Unpublished Pablo Neruda poems highlight last romance
A series of unpublished poems by Chile's late Pablo Neruda, winner of the 1971 Nobel prize for literature, are shedding light on his last romance with his wife's niece, who was more than 40 years his junior.[MORE]
Looted Nazi art on show in Paris
Paintings looted from the homes of French Jews who fled Nazi persecution or were deported to death camps will go on display in Paris in a major show on the tens of thousands of artworks seized by the German occupier during World War II.[MORE]
Louvre exhibit opens in Canada
The Louvre museum has opened an exhibit in Quebec City, the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec, of some of its greatest treasures for the city's 400th anniversary, with rare European and Islamic artifacts from its Paris hub.[MORE]
Rediscovered Goya drawings to go on sale
Three drawings by Spanish master Francisco de Goya are to be sold in London after lying undiscovered in a Swiss private collection for the last 131 years, auction house Christie's said.[MORE]
Stolen 'Scream' returns to Oslo museum
Art lovers converged on the Munch Museum in Oslo overnight as Edvard Munch's Expressionist masterpiece The Scream went back on display nearly four years after it was stolen and damaged in a daring heist.[MORE]
Man to be sentenced over NSW art heist
A Gold Coast man is due to be sentenced in the Lismore District Court today over Australia's biggest art heist.[MORE]
Works collected by German eccentric Rau to be sold
Ten works of art from one of the world's major private collections amassed by the late philanthropist Gustav Rau are scheduled to go on sale at Sotheby's in July, the auctioneer says.[MORE]
German police seize $100m Aztec collection
Police in the German city of Munich say they have seized a $100 million collection of artefacts dating back to the pre-European civilisations of Central and South America.[MORE]
Turner masterpiece up for sale after 180 years
Turner's Pope's Villa At Twickenham is on the market for the first time in 180 years.[MORE]
Russians regain heritage through art exhibition
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Russians have been celebrating an exhibition in Moscow of almost 100 religious icons. [MORE]
Tasmanian art collection sold
A set of paintings bought by the late Launceston art collector Diana Cameron has sold for more than three times the expected price.[MORE]
Bendigo gallery celebrates artistic pilgrims to Paris
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Back in the 20s and 30s, Australian painters flocked to Paris to develop their skills and absorb the avant garde.[MORE]
Priceless Byzantine cross stolen
Belgian police are searching for a priceless Byzantine cross and other treasures stolen during an armed robbery from a cathedral in Tournai, western Belgium.[MORE]
Rare stolen map returned to Spain
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A rare 15th century Spanish map has travelled halfway across the globe before being found in a Sydney gallery.[MORE]
Afghan caves hold world's first oil paintings: expert
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According to one researcher, the world's first oil paintings go back nearly 14 centuries to murals in Afghanistan's caves.[MORE]
