Art and Artifice
Archive 43 - Autumn 2022
John Biggers painting: Coming Home from Work - 1944, Photo ERIK WEEMS - VMFA Museum, Richmond VA
Trial for "Art Heist of the century" draws to conclusion
A suspended prison sentence of six years for Giorgos Sarmantzopoulos who stole three paintings in January 2012:
Picasso: Head of a Woman (1934)
Mondrian’s: Stammer Windmill with Summer House (1905)
Guglielmo Caccia: Sketch St. Diego de Alcala in Ecstasy with the Holy Trinity and the Symbols of Passion
Story at Art News MSN and at Ethnos [Greek language]
Warhol exhibit in Milan attacked by climate change demonstrator
Story at Euro News [Greek]
"They doused 8kg of flour on a car that had been decorated by the late American artist."
Klimt painting Tod und Leben attacked with black liquid in Vienna
"Protesters from Last Generation Austria threw a black oily liquid on Gustav Klimt's painting "Tod und Leben" at the Leopold museum in Vienna, Austria, before glueing theirs hands to the frame. The group tweeted that members targeted the 1915 painting, which translates to "Death and Light," to protest the Austrian government's use of fossil fuels."
i will avenge u mr van gogh pic.twitter.com/FnB6Q2RHyY
— im not reading all that (@LilNasX) October 25, 2022
The World's largest Norman Rockwell memorabilia collection coming up to auction
Story at MSN Talker
Auction being held by Hanson Auctioneers
Van Gogh "Sunflowers" painting attacked
Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall. pic.twitter.com/M8YP1LPTOU
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 14, 2022
Dirty South Cadillac car at the VMFA Museum
At the National Gallery of Art
Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice - AMAZON Published by Watson-Guptill, 256 pages
Original Page March 28, 2023