Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur
An elderly parishioner has stunned Spanish cultural officials with an alarming and unauthorised attempt to restore a prized Jesus Christ fresco. Ecce Homo (Behold the...
Tag : Arts
Christie’s posts record $3.5 billion first-half art sales
(Reuters) – Christie’s announced record first-half art sales of 2.2 billion pounds ($3.5 billion) on Tuesday, a rise of 13 percent over the same period...
Faces of Egyptian mummies on show in Manchester
The faces of ancient Egyptians have gone on show in Manchester. The portraits painted on to panels that covered the heads of mummies form part...
In Cuba, an opera singer builds an empire
(Reuters) – Cuban performers ranging from Broadway-style dancers to classical opera singers are packing them in at El Cabildo, a recently opened entertainment center that...
Hundred new Caravaggio works found in Italy
(Reuters) – Italian art experts say they have discovered about 100 previously unknown sketches and paintings by Caravaggio, the Italian baroque painter whose realistic and...
No “Scream” but plenty of darkness at UK Munch show
(Reuters) – How do you stage an Edvard Munch exhibition without featuring the work for which he is renowned the world over – “The Scream”?...
Teen violin star is Venezuela’s youngest conductor
(Reuters) – At 2 years old, he was given his first musical instrument: a “cuatro,” or small four-string guitar. At 8, he cried with emotion...
Famed sports painter LeRoy Neiman dead at 91
(Reuters) – LeRoy Neiman, whose distinctive, vibrantly colored paintings of sports figures and athletic events made him as famous as many of the athletes he...
Sotheby’s sale sets Miro record, others disappoint
(Reuters) – Sotheby’s set a new auction record for Spanish artist Joan Miro on Tuesday when his 1927 painting “Peinture (Etoile Bleue)” fetched 23.6 million...
“Booming” Dubai art market forced to shift gears
(Reuters) – Dubai has discovered there really are some things money can’t buy. After a decade of petrodollar-driven success that has established it rapidly as...