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Baroque greats paired. To mark the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, the Van Gogh Museum is hosting Rembrandt-Caravaggio February 22nd, 2006 To mark the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, the Van Gogh Museum is hosting Rembrandt-Caravaggio (24 February-18 June) in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The exhibition is billed as the first time Caravaggio’s work has, surprisingly, been shown in Holland since 1952. Though the two baroque artists worked in different regions and periods – Caravaggio (1571-1610) died four years after Rembrandt (1606-69) was born – the exhibition sets out to draw parallels between the Dutch Old Master and his troubled Italian counterpart through some 30 works juxtaposed in pairs. The main stylistic link is the dramatic use of light and shade championed by Caravaggio and fine-tuned by Rembrandt in his subtle, psychological portraits. Other common elements include both painters’ naturalistic approach to depicting “ordinary” people as models. Rembrandt became acquainted with Caravaggio’s work through his teacher Pieter Lastman and “Caravaggist” artists working in Utrecht, such as Gerrit van Honthorst whose painting Christ crowned with thorns (around 1622) is on display. Works on loan include Caravaggio’s The supper at Emmaus (1601) and Rembrandt’s Belshazzar’s Feast (1635), both from the National Gallery in London. The exhibition sponsor is Rabobank. Èñòî÷íèê: The Art Newspaper íàâåðõ | |
US museum has reached an agreement with the Italian Culture Ministry to return antiquities February 22nd, 2006 A US museum has reached an agreement with the Italian Culture Ministry to return antiquities Italy says were illegally removed from the country.
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will return six artefacts, including a 2,500-year-old Greek vase.
In return, Italy will provide long-term loans of equivalent works of art.
Italian Culture Minister Rocco Buttiglione and museum head Philippe de Montebello will sign the deal on Tuesday, Italian officials said.
The Italian authorities have been cracking down in recent months on antiquities it says have been taken out of the country illegally.
The museum had announced on 2 February that it would transfer the legal title of the six artefacts to Italy after it received evidence from the Italian authorities about the items' origins.
The artefacts to be returned include the Euphronios Krater, a painted vase which is one of the museum's prized pieces, and the "Morgantina treasure", a silver collection from Sicily dating from the 3rd Century.
Other objects to be handed back include Greek earthenware items dating from the 5th to 3rd Centuries BC.
In October 2005, the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles agreed to return three ancient artefacts which were allegedly stolen from Italy.
Italian prosecutors have charged Getty curator Marion True with conspiracy to receive stolen goods and illegal receipt of archaeological artefacts.
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The trial of six people charged in connection with the theft of Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" has opened in Oslo February 14th, 2006 Five of the accused are charged with aggravated robbery, while the sixth is accused of dealing in stolen goods. All six defendants have pleaded innocent.
The Scream, along with another work, Madonna, was taken in a daylight raid on Oslo's Munch Museum in August 2004.
According to a police spokesman, the trial is expected to last five weeks.
The five suspects charged with aggravated robbery could face up to 17 years in prison if found guilty.
The five include one of the suspected robbers, the alleged getaway driver, the suspected "mastermind" and two presumed accomplices. A second thief remains at large, police said.
A sixth man, accused of handling stolen goods, could face up to six years in prison. He owned a bus where the two paintings were allegedly hidden for a month after the robbery.
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China has become the second largest exporter of “visual arts”, accounting for 19% of world exports in this category February 10th, 2006 LONDON. A Unesco report on global trade in cultural goods and services includes two surprises. The first is that China has now become the second largest exporter of “visual arts”, accounting for 19% of world exports in this category (particularly statuary).
The second surprise is that the global trade in both the visual arts and heritage goods is concentrated in the top five importing and exporting countries.
It is difficult to compare national data on international trade, but Unesco has made a brave attempt in its report: International flows of selected cultural goods and services, 1994-2003.
World trade in all categories of cultural goods (including visual arts, heritage goods, books, newspapers, recorded media, audiovisual, etc.) almost doubled from $39 billion in 1994 to $59 billion in 2002, representing around 1% of total world trade.
The UK ($8.5 billion) was the largest exporter of cultural goods in 2002, followed by the US ($7.6 billion) and China ($5.2 billion).
In terms of imports, the US was biggest ($15.3 billion), and then the UK ($7.8 billion) and Germany ($4.1 billion). The Unesco report also estimates that cultural and creative industries account for over 7% of the world’s gross domestic product (GNP).
According to the report, Latin America and the Caribbean accounted for only 3% of total world trade in cultural goods, with Africa and Oceania representing less than 1%. Èñòî÷íèê: The Art Newspaper íàâåðõ | |
Suit against Russian Art is dismissed February 6th, 2006 A court in Moscow this week dismissed a civil lawsuit brought against an exhibition that a group of artists said had violated their religious freedoms by mocking Russian Orthodoxy and inciting interfaith animosity. The nine artists who filed the suit sought the equivalent of $170,000 for "moral injury" caused by the exhibition, "Russia 2." The show ran at the same time as Moscow's first biennial of contemporary art last year and included works by some of Russia's most prominent artists, among them Gor Chahal, Marina Koldobskaya and the comic pair the Blue Nose (Vyacheslav Mizin and Aleksandr Shaburov). The judge cited the constitution's provisions separating church and state, the newspaper Kommersant reported on Thursday.
"It is the first victory for art," Marat Guelman, one of the show's organizers, said in a phone interview, noting the criminal conviction last year of the director and a curator at the Andrei Sakharov Museum in Moscow on a similar charge arising from a 2003 exhibition that many saw as ridiculing the Orthodox Church.
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The Luton Museum is competing with New York’s Metropolitan Museum to acquire the £750,000 Wenlok Tankard February 6th, 2006 LONDON. In a David-and-Goliath struggle, Luton Museum is competing with New York’s Metropolitan Museum to acquire the £750,000 Wenlok Tankard. Luton’s annual budget for acquisitions is £2,500, whereas last year the Metropolitan spent $100 million on art.
The Wenlok jug, dating from the 14th or 15th century, was sold at the Easton Neston auction in May last year and purchased by London dealer Daniel Katz. The Art Newspaper can reveal that Bedfordshire’s Luton Museum, in Wardown Park, is now trying to match the price offered by the Metropolitan to Katz, after a UK export licence sale was deferred (November 2005, p.11). The deferral was initially until 19 December and has now been extended to 19 March.
Luton Museum head Maggie Appleton points out that “the two Wenloks associated with the jug, William and his nephew John, both lived in Luton and the family name figures in the medieval guild register in our collection”.
Although Luton Museum’s acquisition budget is meagre, the National Art Collections Fund has pledged £134,700, a further £15,000 has been pledged by the museum's Friends organisation. However, the key request is to the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and their decision is expected at the end of this month. Èñòî÷íèê: The Art Newspaper íàâåðõ | 
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British artist Damien Hirst will curate an exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery in November February 6th, 2006 British artist Damien Hirst will curate an exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery in November comprising works of art taken from his private collection.
It will be the first public viewing of works from his Murderme collection, which includes pieces by contemporaries like Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin.
The artist also owns work by Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol.
Hirst plans to establish a permanent exhibition at his 124-acre manor near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.
It is not yet known if Hirst's own work will be on display, although a Serpentine spokeswoman said she thought it was unlikely.
She also said the selection for the exhibition - to be called In the Darkest Hour, There Will Be Light - has yet to be made.
"We're in the selection process at the moment so we're not letting the cat out of the bag yet," she told the BBC News website.
The exhibition is also likely to feature some of the rare objects - including skulls, medical instruments and furniture - that Hirst has amassed over the years.
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