How do we value 'the arts'? - Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor How do we value 'the arts'? March 12 2014 A long time ago, when I was working as a political adviser on cultural and heritage policy, I had to deal endlessly with the 'how do we value the arts?' question. In other words, if we are to pay for them, in part, with public money, what do...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor How to get the Scots to stay March 11 2014 A reader and I have been in discussion about what might happen to the Union flag if the Scots vote to leave the UK.* The above suggestion was made at the time of Act of Union in about 1707, but didn't catch on. Should we now resuscitate it, and say to the Scots: stay...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Mona Lisa theory no. 953 March 11 2014 Picture: Booksamillion AFP reports on yet another theory about the Mona Lisa . This time the headline is 'She's a feminist', but there's also a more religious angle: It's taken him 12 years, but an amateur art historian from Texas reckons he's solved the mystery of the...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor How to write an art historical dictionary March 11 2014 Picture: Unicorn Press/Neill Jeffares On his blog , the compiler of the invaluable Dictionary of Pastellists , Neil Jeffares, relays tales from his lexicographical past. Well worth reading. Share This Categories Research Connoisseurship strikes back (ctd.)...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Meanwhile in China... March 10 2014 Video: AFP They're putting on the country's largest ever Monet exhibition - in a shopping mall. As you can see above, it all looks a bit sparse. But the good news is that the show is a sell out, with over 60,000 tickets sold so far. More here . Share This Categories Research...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Oxford College sells Ruisdael March 10 2014 Picture: Kimbell Art Museum The Sunday Times reported yesterday that the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas has bought the above landscape of c.1656 by Jacob van Ruisdael from Oxford University's Worcester College. The price reported was up to £10m. The Kimbell has confirmed...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Coello to be exported March 10 2014 Picture: DCMS The above portrait by Coello of Philip II's son, Don Diego is to be exported from Britain. As I reported here in February, the picture was made the subject of a temporary export block by the government, with a price set at £4.25m. But no gallery came forward...
Sewell on the NPG's new 'War Portraits' show - Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Sewell on the NPG's new 'War Portraits' show March 10 2014 Picture: NPG The Great Brian is on excellent form in his review of the National Portrait Gallery's new exhibition of Great War portraits . The whole piece is exhibition reviewing at its best. Here are the strangely...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Beltracchi - the Movie March 6 2014 Video: FILME Here's a new film about Wolfgang Beltracchi, the German forger whose works ended up in Sotheby's and Christie's, selling for mega money (more here , here and here ). It's in German, and at the beginning we hear Beltracchi boasting that Leonardo 'isn't difficult'....
Who gets what if the Scots leave? (ctd.) - Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Who gets what if the Scots leave? (ctd.) March 6 2014 Picture: Daily Record A few months ago, I wondered how an independent Scotland would approach the question of its, and the rest of the UK's, art collections. I also raised the issue of what happens with the current...
Connoisseurship strikes back (ctd.) - Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Connoisseurship strikes back (ctd.) March 6 2014 Picture: AIA Early last year I mentioned here the forthcoming Authentication in Art conference to held this May in The Hague. I noted then the apparent lack of any mention of the 'C-word' in the programme, but I'm pleased to...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Guffwatch - junior edition March 6 2014 Picture: imgur.com I don't know who came up with this series , but it's great. Share This Categories Research Connoisseurship strikes back (ctd.) Michelangelo the forger Two new Gainsboroughs! Nuclear testing for fakes A new blog, and a new artist More ... Exhibitions...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Thanks... February 24 2014 Picture: BG ...for all your kind emails and Tweets following my BBC Culture Show programme on the weekend. It seems to have gone down quite well. In Scotland at least. I will soon post a much more detailed note on the picture, as there was lots of information we sadly had to leave...
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Newly discovered portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie February 21 2014 Picture: BG Here's the picture I've been dying to tell you about for months, and the subject of my Culture Show programme tomorrow; the only portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie to have been painted from life in Britain, by the great Allan Ramsay....
- Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor Museum swapshop in Washington February 20 2014 Picture: Wikipedia Here's a surprise, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, one of America's finest, will be taken over by the US National Gallery of Art. The collection will be broken up, with perhaps as much as half of it (which is primarily 19th Century art) being...
'Nazi stamp found on rare painting in art gallery' - Art History News - by Bendor Grosvenor about articles contact edited by Bendor Grosvenor 'Nazi stamp found on rare painting in art gallery' February 20 2014 Video: NBC I post this without comment, though you can guess what I think. More here , with photos. Share This Categories Research Michelangelo the forger Two new Gainsboroughs! Nuclear testing...
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