Read more art stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1522/art.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:45:23 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72286/china-to-scour-museums-for-looted-art.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChina is about to send teams of artifact hunters to the world's top museums to track down looted art treasures. They'll be on the lookout for art from the splendid Imperial Gardens of Yuan Ming Yuan, more commonly known as the Old Summer Palace, which was used by Chinese emperors...http://www.newser.com/story/72286/china-to-scour-museums-for-looted-art.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Oct 2009 3:40:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72074/fresco-clue-launches-hunt-for-lost-da-vinci.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLike a mystery straight from the Da Vinci Code , an Italian palace fresco harbors a clue pointing to the existence of a hidden masterpiece, claims an art expert. Now Italian professor Maurizio Seracini has been granted permission to seek the painting considered Leonardo da Vinci's greatest work. Seracini believes the...http://www.newser.com/story/72074/fresco-clue-launches-hunt-for-lost-da-vinci.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Oct 2009 4:15:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71682/damien-hirst-paintings-shockingly-bad.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tag“Bad boy of British art" Damien Hirst decided to put his headline-grabbing, conceptual art projects aside and return to painting. Critics, however, are not impressed with the exhibition of 25 new paintings, which opened today: “There are many painters in evening classes much worse than Hirst,” writes Tom Lubbock in...http://www.newser.com/story/71682/damien-hirst-paintings-shockingly-bad.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 14 Oct 2009 13:09:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71619/teacher-fired-for-butt-art-paints-colbert-for-charity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Virginia teacher fired after a YouTube clip surfaced of him using his posterior to paint is turning the other cheek—and auctioning off a portrait of comedian Stephen Colbert to benefit public schools. Stan Murmur uses what WTVR-TV calls “the anthropometric monotype method of painting. That means he sits...http://www.newser.com/story/71619/teacher-fired-for-butt-art-paints-colbert-for-charity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 13 Oct 2009 20:39:47 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71130/obamas-art-collection-modern-aggressive.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack and Michelle Obama, working with curators at the White House and DC museums, have borrowed 47 artworks for their walls, and their selections are far more modern and discerning than their predecessors', writes Blake Gopnik. The Washington Post critic is impressed by the "surprisingly sober, even dour" choices they...http://www.newser.com/story/71130/obamas-art-collection-modern-aggressive.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 8:52:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71023/us-lensman-captures-life-size-whale-pics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA US lensman who has opened an exhibit of life-size whale photographs in Norway calls the great beasts "the most friendly and inquisitive carnivores on the planet." Bryant Austin spent five years, including days diving with "exceptional individual" whales he could touch, to collect enough photos to create his composite...http://www.newser.com/story/71023/us-lensman-captures-life-size-whale-pics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 Oct 2009 2:35:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69228/warhol-collection-stolen-from-la-home.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA multi-million dollar collection of portraits by Andy Warhol has been stolen from a prominent collector's home, the Los Angeles Times reports. Former investment banker Richard Weisman's housekeeper discovered that The Athletes series of 11 portraits—worth as much as a million a pop—had vanished when she entered the...http://www.newser.com/story/69228/warhol-collection-stolen-from-la-home.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 12 Sep 2009 5:58:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67869/nea-is-playing-politics-filmmaker-charges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe National Endowment for the Arts recently encouraged artists to create works that focus on “health care, energy and environment, safety and security, education, community renewal”—a disturbing step away from the its actual mandate, filmmaker Patrick Courrielche writes for Big Hollywood. “Artists shouldn’t be used as tools of the...http://www.newser.com/story/67869/nea-is-playing-politics-filmmaker-charges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 11:38:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67182/collectors-give-50-artworks-each-to-50-states.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHerb and Dorothy Vogel had just modest incomes—he was a postal clerk, she a librarian—but over four decades they acquired more than 3,600 drawings, paintings, and collages from America's leading artists. They collected so much that they had to stuff works under their bed. But now the...http://www.newser.com/story/67182/collectors-give-50-artworks-each-to-50-states.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 18 Aug 2009 9:14:41 CDT