Huge Stash of “Degenerate Art” Seized by Nazis Found in Munich – is this a Cover-up?
Some days the intrigues of the international art market are more exciting than others. This is one of them. About 1,500 modernist masterpieces – thought to have been looted by the Nazis – have been confiscated from the flat of…
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Dale Chihuly – Utterly Breathtaking
I went to the Musée des Beaux-Arts (aka the Montreal Museum of Fine Art) today to see the Dale Chihuly show, Utterly Breathtaking. It was pretty impressive (breathtaking even). To be honest, the idea of going to see an exhibition…
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Gerhard Richter on Grey
Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has…
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Post Roundup – the Book of Faces Edition II
This week’s topics: Women in Street Art, Colour Use in Marketing, Vintage Cookbook Illustrations, the Psychology of Over-Exposure to Art, a New Show by Jenny Holzer, and Scientific Illustration of Ugly Extinct Creatures as Body Art. Whew! It’s not every…
Why Google Image Search Suddenly Stopped Working
I don’t know about the rest of you, but when Google came out with an image search function that would actually let you search by matching images, my life was changed. No more unattributed images I would forever wonder who…
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