Liesl Bradner / TruthdigMay 26, 2018
Fulton Leroy Washington turned to art to cope with an unjust federal sentence. The story of his path to freedom is worth remembering as Congress considers prison reform. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Paul Von Blum / TruthdigOct 6, 2017
An excerpt from a new book that demonstrates that Los Angeles, surpassing New York and Chicago, is arguably the epicenter for African-American visual art. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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By Stephen Engelberg / ProPublicaNov 25, 2015
A frightened young woman left her apartment in Munich in November 1938 and returned with the visa that saved her family. A team of German journalists launched an improbable search to find the missing artwork and tell its story. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 29, 2014
In his mid-30s, British artist and teacher Sargy Mann went blind from cataracts in both eyes. Twenty-five years later his paintings sell to top collectors for upward of $80,000. He tells the BBC how he lives and paints. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 20, 2012
Is it or isn't it? Turns out it is -- that is, a still-life painting of a dynamic flower arrangement that experts at the Kroeller-Mueller Museum in the Netherlands once believed to be the work of Vincent van Gogh but then questioned has been reattributed to the Dutch postimpressionist, thanks in part to some X-ray sleuthing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 14, 2012
So much for Rubenesque: An artist by the memorable name of Anna Utopia Giordano has reshaped the famous figures of several nudes from classical paintings -- think Velazquez, Bouguereau and Botticelli -- to give them a 21st-century sensibility. (Read: They're a lot skinnier.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 5, 2011
A visitor to the National Gallery in Washington apparently saw something she really didn't like in Gauguin’s “Two Tahitian Women.” Last Friday, she allegedly rushed the lush image and set to it with her fists, to the alarm of onlookers and gallery staff. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 14, 2010
Just when you thought the "Da Vinci Code" craze had mercifully passed, here comes another potential puzzle hidden in the "Mona Lisa": Members of Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage say they have found symbols embedded in the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci's iconic portrait. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 4, 2010
A collection of scenic paintings by 7-year-old British boy Kieron Williamson sold out in a very short time for a very hefty amount of money -- we're talking half an hour and $236,000 -- at a gallery in Norfolk last weekend That's enough scratch to make the tedious nicknames that those clever media people can't help but bestow (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 20, 2010
Somehow, a lone art bandit -- or a band of bandits -- managed to pull off an impressive five-finger-discount maneuver at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris on Wednesday night, making off with five masterpieces worth a grand total of close to 100 million euros. Sacré bleu! Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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