15 juni 2016 0 Alyssa Buffenstein – How a Decaying Painting Spurred America’s Most Comprehensive Pigment Collection Art conservation departments are more or less ubiquitous in museums today, but it wasn’t always this [...]
18 april 2016 2 Cor Hendriks – The Book of Thoth: An Ancient Egyptian tale of magic The soul, hidden in a box inside a box like a Russian doll (a well-known fairytale motif), brings to mind the [...]
25 mei 2015 2 Michael Krieger – Before You Buy That Rothko…How the CIA Covertly Nurtured Modern Art as a Cold War “Weapon” “For decades in art circles it was either a rumor or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The [...]
24 mei 2015 2 Frances Stonor Saunders – Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’ Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War For [...]