Fine Art Touch

12/07/2022

NYC, Radio Center Music Hall through the trees

03/12/2019

Just finished these two wallets. PM me if you're interested in buying one.

Two wallets done. PM me if you're interested in buying one.

12/25/2013

Merry Christmas!

Apollo 8 was the first human spaceflight mission to leave Earth & voyage to another celestial body, The Moon. Aboard were Astronauts: Commander -...

12/03/2013

If you need an instant education on fine art, any of these museums or galleries can get you up to speed in no time.

11/14/2013

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303309504579185861314057386

Behind the art trove found in a Munich apartment is a tale of an art-dealing German family, N**i officials and the Allied 'Monuments Men' combing postwar Europe for stolen art.

11/06/2013

Twenty-three years after it happened, the Gardner heist still haunts the international art world. Former FBI sleuth Bob Wittman believes he knows where the missing paintings are.

11/04/2013

Artworks by Picasso and Matisse are part of a cache of 1,500 pieces believed confiscated by the N***s and recovered in Munich, German media say.

02/08/2013

Rough going in France when this famous work is defaced...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_PAINTING_DEFACED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-02-08-05-07-53

PARIS (AP) -- A visitor to the Louvre's newest extension, in northern France, has been detained after scrawling an inscription in marker on the famed canvas of Eugene Delacroix "Liberty Leading the People."

09/27/2012

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/27/younger-happier-mona-lisa-painted-10-years-earlier-experts-believe/?intcmp=features

Leonardo da Vinci painted a younger and happier Mona Lisa some 10 years before painting the famous painting, art experts are claiming.

08/23/2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921

An elderly parishioner stuns Spanish cultural officials with an alarming do-it-yourself attempt to restore a prized fresco of Jesus Christ.

05/03/2012

http://nowiknow.com/volcanic-scream/

In 1883, the Indonesian volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded. The explosion was so loud that, reportedly, it could distinctly be heard in Perth, Australia — nearly 2,000 miles away.

04/16/2012

Wasn't aware they were missing, but now they're found!

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/123568

X-Rays Help Find Two Van Gogh Paintings