Gallery removes naked nymphs painting to ‘prompt conversation’
Manchester Art Gallery takes down work by Waterhouse and asks public to post reactions Mark Brown arts correspondent Guardian, Wed 31 Jan 2018 It is a painting that shows pubescent, naked … Continue reading
‘He took sex to the point of oblivion’: Tracey Emin on her hero Egon Schiele
His work was once dismissed as porn. But the pain, anger and sexual frustration in Egon Shiele’s writhing nudes electrified Tracey Emin’s adolescence – and gave her a purpose that … Continue reading
Ignore the art market – there is only one Bruegel that matters
Jonathan Jones Pieter Bruegel the Elder is the only genius in his family – so why is the UK being flooded with the inferior work of his offspring? A second-rate … Continue reading
The mystery of the stolen Klimt
By Max Paradiso BBC Piacenza 8 December 2016 Nearly 20 years ago a valuable portrait was stolen, in bizarre circumstances, from a gallery in the northern Italian city of Piacenza. … Continue reading
Every night I go by the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery in Pall Mall and I am haunted by this face on the wall
Every night I go by the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery in Pall Mall and I am haunted by this face on the wall, so finally this week I went in … Continue reading
Here in abundance is evidence of man’s too willing subservience to dominant women
BRIAN SEWELL The Evening Standard 21 Feb 2006 Here in abundance is evidence of man’s too willing subservience to dominant women, of the fantasies of pain, bondage and torment at … Continue reading
No sex in this city: the bare-faced cheek of Paris’s most sensual museum
Jonathan Jones The Musée d’Orsay – which displays some of the most outrageous nudes ever painted – called in police on a nude performance artist in an act of prudery … Continue reading
‘Public nudity is a uniform’: the artist who stripped off at the Musée D’Orsay
Performance artist Deborah de Robertis discusses ‘political nudity’, police interrogation and filming her recent dressing down at a Paris museum The 10 most shocking performance artworks ever Self portrait: Deborah … Continue reading
Brussels Collection of Modern Art to RETURN to Museum of Fine Arts
by LQ © FM Brussel / brusselnieuws.be Brussels 13:03 – 12/12/2015 The decision is made. The collection mderne art KMSKB goes back to the Museum of Fine Arts on the … Continue reading
Cash-strapped Venice considers selling off masterpieces by Klimt and Chagall
The new mayor of the lagoon city hopes to raise millions with the sale of celebrated art works owned by civic museums The Klimt painting, titled Judith II (Salome) Photo: Alamy … Continue reading
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