European Art

Macabre Adventures In Denmark

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: European Art, Macabre, Video, Herbert Von Garvens, European Culture, Contemporary Art, Dutch-Artists, James Ensor, Asger Jorn, Slidepollajax, Denmark, Museum Jorn, Arts News

Keeping company in the art world doesn't only lead to a nice leisurely lunch, it leads to whole movements; think of Braque and Picasso, or Rembrandt a...

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Art Collective Brings Spain's Drinking Water Problem To Light

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Luzinterruptus, European Art, Madrid, Installation Art, Madrid-Spain, Public Art, Light Art, Luzinterruptus Collective, Access to Drinking Water, Spain, Drinking Water, Public Drinking Water, Slidepollajax, Political Art, Video, Arts News

If you're ever touring the warm Spanish city of Madrid, you may get a little parched. That is because about 50% of the city's public drinking fountain...

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VIDEO: Artist Explores Psychedelic Femininity

www.guardian.co.uk | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: European Art, London Art, Pipilotti Rist, Video Art, Adrian Searle, Hayward Gallery, Guardian, Eyeball Massage, UK Arts, London, Sweden, Arts News

The Swiss artist talks to Adrian Searle about her new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, which features psychedelic video works and a pair of underpan...

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PHOTOS: Guess The Artist: Answer Revealed!

Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: European Art, Games, Painter of Light, Turner Prize, Turner, Art History, Light, Joseph William Mallord Turner, Artists, Watercolor, Thomas Kinkade, Painting, Guess the Artist, Nineteenth Century, Arts News

Earlier this week, we showed you the work of art below and asked you to guess the artist who created it. Thousands of you guessed in our poll, but onl...

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Guess The Artist (The Answer May Surprise You)

Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: European Art, Games, Painter of Light, Art History, Light, Artists, Watercolor, Thomas Kinkade, Painting, Guess the Artist, Nineteenth Century, Arts News

Known as "the painter of light" (no, not Thomas Kinkade), this 19th century European artist was best known for his landscape paintings. Guess the arti...

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Archive Of Nazi-Looted Art Goes Online

The Guardian | Sam Jones | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: European Art, National Archives, Hitler, Nazis, Sam Jones, The Guardian, Nazi Loot, Art Theft, Art Catalogue, Looted Art, Stolen Art, Arts News

Despite a reputation for reaching for their revolvers at the merest mention of culture, the Nazis were among the most ruthless, avaricious and methodi...

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Getty Museum To Return Painting Looted By Nazis

AP | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: European Art, Repatriation, Hitler, Nazis, Museums, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Pieter Molijn, Looted Art, Jacques Goudstikker, Painting, Adolf Hitler, Getty, Stolen Art, Arts News

LOS ANGELES -- The J. Paul Getty Museum says it will return a 370-year-old painting that once belonged to an art dealer who fled Holland when the Nazi...

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'I Read, I Think, I Paint'

Lia Petridis Maiello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: European Art, Ruffo Caselli, Modern Italian Art, Human Communication, Abstract Art, Cyber Existentialism, Microchips, Arts News

One could call him a technophobe, if he didn't happen to be the very antithesis. Caselli has been painting microchips, their impact on society and interpersonal, human relations since the 1950s.

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WATCH: 'Mondrian's House:' An Exact Replica Of His House, Paintings In Paris Retrospective

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: European Art, Centre Pompidou, Retrospective, Piet Mondrian, Mondrian, Pompidou, Parisian Museums, Paris-Exhibits, Painting, De Stijl, Art Retrospectives, Piet-Mondrian, Arts News

Aside from being a seminal European post-war artist and founder of the De Stijl movement, Piet Mondrian is one of those artists that had an all encomp...

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AUCTION HOUSE EXHIBIT: Art Inspired By 'Divine Comedy' On View At Sotheby's

nytimes.com | CAROL VOGEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: European Art, Lisa Dennison, Auction-Houses, Frans Francken, Dante the Divine Comedy, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Art Exhibits, Sotheby's, Sothebys, Art Exhibitions, Poetry, Arts News

The line between auction houses and art galleries keeps blurring. It is no longer unusual for Sotheby's and Christie's to take over entire galleries. ...

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DESIGN EXHIBITION: European Design Exhibition Coming To Milwaukee Art Museum

artdaily.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Design, European-Art, Europe, European Design, Milwaukee-Art-Museum, Art Exhibits, Arts News

MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Milwaukee Art Museum's newest feature exhibition, European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century, opens October 9, 2010. It i...

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Dr. Leslie King Hammond's Artistic Vitality (VIDEO)

Timothy Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

With all of Dr. King-Hammond's success, nothing may bring her more satisfaction then the gift of spreading the love that art can bring to one's life. This is something the doctor can attest to first hand.

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