Interesting NPR article about the rise of online art fraud. What does this mean for the future of art sales in this new medium? Listen and find out. Join discussion...

This exhibition, Death in Four Colors, is being shown at the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno. It brings together theatre, film and visual arts focusing on a program dealing with the perspective of death. The First exhibition is Viva la Muerta, Long Live Death. This reveals a different approach to death for the tradition of death in Spain goes back a long time. This exhibit includes many artists. Arne Haugen Sorenson Petite Morte/ Grand Morte is another participant in this project and his plastic works reflect on life and death. Jose Dámaso's Sonrisa de la Muerte, the smile of death is an exhibition that features his works stemming from his experiences of death at a young age, such as the death of his father. The other artist with an exhibition is Cristino de Vera, Varitas. His 24 paintings on canvas all convey the essence of death Join discussion...

This news article highlights a few famous painting robberies. One of them is about a man who stole the Scream by Munch. The M&M company offered 2 million M&Ms to whoever returned the missing painting. The man who stole the painting arranged for the Scream to be returned after he had been to court. The goverment was stupid and didn't give him the 2 million M&Ms because he was found guilty. How retarded?? The rest of the article was about 2 Picasso paintings that had been recently stolen and also about other criminals jacking famous paintings. There were some infamous bands of painting stealers covered including The Balkan Bandits and Bayonne Bandits. Each of these groups of people are responsible for taking a lot of famous artwork from all around Europe. The reporter who wrote the news article interviewed 4 investigators who followed well known art gangs like the Balkan Bandits. Most of the detectives said that the recent robberies were acted by the Balkans because the robberies were reported to have been spoken in Slavik German (the Balkan Bandits are known for being Slavik German). Two of the four most recently stolen paintings have already been recovered. Many of the detectives stated that the shocking thing is that in the past few years, art theives have turned to using guns and other weapons. Before, the Mafia didnt even use weapons in art robberys. I thought this was suprising. Join discussion...

This exhibition in the Museo del Prado (in Madrid) was started to comemorate the 200th anniversary of the start of the Spanish War of Independence. It will show two of Goyas paintings, the 2nd and 3rd of May 1808, and 200 more works by this artist. This exhibition is considered one of the greatest for Goya since another organized by Prado in 1996. Join discussion...

There is a sacred art exhibition from wednesday to friday with various different small sculptures. These were made by the group called the "Young Brotherhood" The Sculptures are c.a. 1.7 meters tall and are very detailed. Join discussion...

Carlo Michele Scirinzi is an artist who was born in Lezze, Italy in 1974. He continues to reside and work in Lezze. He graduated with a diploma in the fine arts from the Arts Academy of Bari. His work is currently being displayed at the Paolo Erbetta Arte Contemporanea. His current work consists of digital prints from manipulated negatives. Rad! Join discussion...

More than 400 works of art by Picasso are located at this National Museum in Paris, just in this single exhibit. These works of art came from his person collection, including: paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, engravings, and sketches. Pictures of Picasso will be hung up outside of the museum to draw attraction and tourists. Another museum close by, the Museum Queen Sofía has dedicated three great rooms to temporary exhibitions and the complete wing of the Permanent Collection in which it is located the Guernica. In these spaces, the works coming from the national Musée Picasso will exhibit in dialogue with those of the Museum Queen Sofía, making this exhibition 4 scopes. Join discussion...

Time Magazine recently published a story about France's declining status in the art world. As French art continues to be sold at high rates to foreign buyers, concerns have been raised by the French government about the amount of contemporary art leaving the country. In France, over 50,000 people working for 10,000 companies are employed by the arts sector, so the economic stability of the sector plays a critical role in the lives of the people of France. Even with all this art exportation the country has found that it has become only the fourth highest exporter of art in the world, to the US, the UK, and now China. These new developments have caused uneasiness among those whose lives depend on the artistic heritage and pride of the French. They wonder how long this downward trend will continue. Join discussion...

The show consists of 77 peices: 74 newspapers and diaries and 3 direct interventions of Salvador Dali over impressed paper. The theme is the collaboration of Salvador Dali in the world of newspapers and the reason for being written, which varys alot and is quite extensive. Dali is not limited to written articles, but also other stuff in a spanish dialect that i cannot translate effectively or accurately. He uses this premise as a support in the form of collage, and like a fount of inspiration: a corvet, an image, and a text of asparagus. Everything costs activity the door, in different moments of the seive carrera, to draw pages and finish a sincere publication, the Dali news. I'm going to stop "translating" now for the sake of the reader's sanity. I dont think this website is in spanish at all. probably castallano but nonetheless, some language i dont understand. Join discussion...

Artist Jaime Pitarch has created an exhibition of art designed to adress the image culture of news today. He believes that images are now the focus of communication, but that they have been de-valued. The idea is to take away images from the media and see what is left. The exhibit includes newspaper pages without photos and puzzles of famous paintings whose images had been removed. Join discussion...