Read more art museum stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/221/art-museum.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:20:19 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71490/new-museum-piece-shows-viewers-total-blackness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Tate Modern's latest installation is an enormous steel container—100 feet long, 43 feet high, and 30 feet wide—that envelops visitors in total darkness upon entering. How It Is , by Polish artist Miroslaw Balka, is lined with a suede-like material that is 10 times darker than black paint....http://www.newser.com/story/71490/new-museum-piece-shows-viewers-total-blackness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 12 Oct 2009 15:05:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67953/missing-picasso-found-in-iraq-probably-not.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIraqi security forces have secured a purported Pablo Picasso painting believed stolen from a Kuwaiti museum during the 1990 invasion, the Times of London reports. Only it’s probably not a Picasso. “It bears absolutely no relation to any Picasso that I can think of,” says one expert. Iraqi forces obtained...http://www.newser.com/story/67953/missing-picasso-found-in-iraq-probably-not.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 15:45:02 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 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66659/angry-russian-hurls-cup-at-mona-lisa.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Russian woman distressed that France had refused to grant her nationality took out her frustration on a defenseless national treasure, Reuters reports. “The woman threw an empty cup at the Mona Lisa, but there was no damage as the cup smashed when it hit the screen protecting the painting,...http://www.newser.com/story/66659/angry-russian-hurls-cup-at-mona-lisa.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 11 Aug 2009 13:39:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65130/deface-the-bible-dont-worry-its-art.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn exhibit at Scotland’s Gallery of Modern Art intended to “reclaim the Bible as a sacred text” did not go entirely as planned, the Telegraph reports. Visitors were invited to “write your way back into” the Bible on display, and the resulting additions ranged from the angry—“This is all...http://www.newser.com/story/65130/deface-the-bible-dont-worry-its-art.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Jul 2009 13:03:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64937/uk-art-honcho-we-need-more-fakes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe head of London’s National Gallery wishes “we had more fakes,” he tells Reuters. “It’s worth having some in a collection. Not having them on display for what they pretend to be, but for what they are,” Nicholas Penny explains ahead of a 2010 show exploring imitations. In the Gallery’s...http://www.newser.com/story/64937/uk-art-honcho-we-need-more-fakes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Jul 2009 14:53:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62102/parthenon-gets-the-museum-it-deserves.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Parthenon has been called the one “absolutely right” building on the planet, and it now has a fitting memorial, Christopher Hitchens writes in Vanity Fair . Hitchens is among the first to visit the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, and it does not disappoint. Artifacts, expert reproductions, and a stunning...http://www.newser.com/story/62102/parthenon-gets-the-museum-it-deserves.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 17 Jun 2009 13:52:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61401/picassos-magical-chateau-to-open.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThis summer, art fiends can visit Pablo Picasso’s final resting place for the first time—a château where “he devoted himself completely to his art,” the Telegraph reports. Picasso discovered Château de Vauvenargues in the foothills of France’s Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain made famous by Paul Cézanne. Visitors will see...http://www.newser.com/story/61401/picassos-magical-chateau-to-open.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 09 Jun 2009 13:22:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59353/mets-new-look-lets-the-light-in.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its American Wing tomorrow after a refurbishment that was “all about transparency,” its chairman says. Where benches and shrubs once constricted movement, now visitors can sit on a fountain’s edge, look out on Central Park, and ride a glass elevator “through rooms you probably...http://www.newser.com/story/59353/mets-new-look-lets-the-light-in.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 18 May 2009 12:20:08 CDT