They say the holidays can be emotionally hard for many people. If you're the least bit depressed, do not see this film. Surviving Christmas is one thing, surviving this movie is quite another.

11.11.2005

Russian detectives go on treasure hunt for 55,000 artworks

RUSSIAN police are looking for 55,000 stolen works of art worth more than £500m that have been smuggled abroad and sold on the black market during the 15 years since the collapse of communism.

11.11.2005

Getty museum sends three artifacts back to Italy

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles returned three ancient artifacts to Italy this week, in their ongoing legal battle over looted art. The return could act as a test case for future claims against the Getty and other U.S. museums involving art acquired through Paris-based American art dealer Robert Hecht.

24.10.2004

Benedikt Taschen reveals his contemporary art

Benedikt Taschen is famous, and rich, because he publishes books that diffuse images in their millions, books with seemingly impossibly high production values considering their rock-bottom pricing

24.10.2004

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Gary Tinterow, chief curator of the new department of 19th-century, Modern and contemporary art, outlines his plans

This summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the establishment of a vast new department of 19th-century, Modern, and contemporary art, embracing European paintings from 1800 to the present, international 20th-century sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative arts, and design

14.10.2004

Complex negotiations for Raphael show at the National Gallery, London

The Raphael exhibition which opens at the National Gallery on 20 October has involved unusually complex loan negotiations. The artist’s paintings are nearly all on panel, which poses conservation difficulties, and they are so important that owners are reluctant to part with them