- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Cleaning Veronese March 24 2014 Video: National Gallery This is worth a click: National Gallery director Nicholas Penny discusses the changes brought about by cleaning Veronese's ' The Adoration of the Kings '. Share This Categories Research Connoisseurship conference Connoisseurship strikes back (ctd.) Two...
Obama's trip to the Rijksmuseum - Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Obama's trip to the Rijksmuseum March 24 2014 Video: zie.nl President Obama admired Rembrandt's Nightwatch today on a visit to the Rijksmuseum. Should make up for his annoying American art historians the other day. Share This Categories Research Connoisseurship conference Connoisseurship...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Brian on Veronese March 21 2014 Picture: Standard The Great Brian is on excellent form in his review of the Veronese exhibition, which is well worth a read. Like me, he seems most impressed with Veronese's early works, such as the 1548 Conversion of Mary Magdalene , above. Of course, Brian can't help but question...
"Stolen Rembrandt discovered" - Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor "Stolen Rembrandt discovered" March 20 2014 Picture: Liberation At least, that's the headling, but the photo of the 'Rembrandt' discovered by police in Nice (via Liberation , above) doesn't look entirely convincing for a Rembrandt. In fact, at all convincing. The painting was stolen...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Guffwatch March 19 2014 Picture: Northumbria University Here's one to make your brain ache. It's a PhD application at Northumbria University combining science and contemporary art, and comes via Alan Davies on Twitter . Brace yourself: PhD Research Project: Abstract Geology - Critically Engaged Fine Art Practices...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Hurrah for the Telegraph* March 19 2014 Picture: Telegraph Here's a lovely story - a scrap metal dealer who bought the above jewelled egg for just £8,000 discovered it was a highly important lost Faberge egg after finding a Telegraph article online. It is in fact worth $20m! More here . * And Google, presumably....
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Blockbusters - are they worth it? March 18 2014 Picture: Telegraph There's a very interesting piece in The Telegraph by Alistair Sooke on blockbuster exhibitions. He talked to both the current and previous directors of the National Gallery to get their views. First, Nicholas Penny: “At the moment, there are...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Veronese March 18 2014 Picture: BG I went briefly to a preview of the Veronese show at the National Gallery this afternoon. It's an epic exhibition, so do go. The more august art writers must have gone yesterday or last week, for the main reviews are already published. Richard Dorment has a well considered take...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Gurlitt - is he in the clear? March 17 2014 Picture: Paris Match Yes, says one of the court-appointed art historians tasked with looking into his collection (writes David Charter): One of the few independent experts to have seen the entire collection has now decided to speak out in Gurlitt’s defence. “Cornelius...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Stolen Klimt case re-opened March 17 2014 Picture: Guardian DNA testing of the frame around a Klimt stolen in 1997 may yield clues over its disappearance, reports The Guardian : More than 17 years since it was stolen from a gallery in northern Italy, Gustav Klimt's Portrait of a Woman [detail, above] is reportedly...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Cezanne at the Ashmolean March 17 2014 Video: Ashmolean Museum This looks like it's worth a visit - an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford of works from the Pearlman Collection, including 24 works by Cezanne. Says the Ashmolean: The exhibition includes twenty-four works by Cézanne: six oils; two drawings;...
Meyer leaves Sotheby's (ctd.) - Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Meyer leaves Sotheby's (ctd.) March 16 2014 Picture: New York Magazine/Sotheby's There's some interesting info in New York Magazine on Tobias Meyer's recent departure from Sotheby's . The speculation about why he left comes in the context of a long piece by Andrew Price on why the...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Overpaint and boats March 16 2014 Picture: BBC The Daily Mail has picked up on a story first run by Classic Boat magazine, saying that a painting by Constable featured on 'Fake or Fortune?' was a fake because 'the boats were wrong'. Alas, these maritime experts don't know how to interpret either a Constable...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Connoisseurship conference March 14 2014 Picture: Paul Mellon Centre Here are some more details about the forthcoming conference on connoisseurship I mentioned recently . The conference, to be held at the Paul Mellon Centre in London on Friday 2nd May, is to be called 'The Educated Eye? Connoisseurship Now'....
Art history ads (ctd.) - Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Art history ads (ctd.) March 13 2014 Picture: via Time This one from US gun maker Armalite is causing a hoo ha in Italy. Says Time : Italy’s culture minister Dario Franceschini said the image was offensive and violated the law, and an official at the Department of Culture in Florence said...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor TEFAF opens March 13 2014 Picture: David Koetser/TEFAF The great art dealing event of the year, The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), opens today in Maastricht. The Telegraph's Colin Gleadell is there, and reports that this: [...] Aladdin’s cave of treasures, trophies and discoveries awaits all who travel to Maastricht...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Mona Lisa theory no. 954 March 13 2014 Picture: harvard.edu They're coming in thick and fast folks... A reader alerts me to this research at Harvard, by Dr. Margaret Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology. She looks into how the eye processes information: We are interested in how cells in the visual system process...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Pollocks March 12 2014 Video: Getty The LA Times reports that the recent conservation of Jackson Pollock's 'Mural'has disproved the theory, posed in 2009 by Henry Adams, that Pollock hid his name inside the picture: Contributing editor Henry Adams, a Case Western Reserve University specialist in 19th century...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor In the US, gender bias in museum pay March 12 2014 Jerome Weeks at artandseek highlights an awkward new survey from the the US National Center for Arts Research on gender disparities in museum salaries: Fewer than 43 percent of art museum directors are women. And the female directors, on average, are paid less...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor French government returns Nazi loot March 12 2014 Picture: AFP/Getty/LA Times With great fanfare, and just a day before The Monuments Men* opens in France, the French Government has declared that it is returning three paintings stolen by the Nazis to their various owners. More here in the LA Times . *N'allez...