Modern art

It is not every artist who could see a woman's hat in a red farmyard faucet, but works on display in Istanbul show the 20th century Catalan painter and sculptor Joan Miro in a playful mood in later life.

"Women, Birds, Stars" at the Sak?p Sabanc? Museum features 125 paintings, prints, sculptures, tapestries and ceramics, including loans from the Miro family's personal collection.

A Picasso painting stolen from the Georges Pompidou center in Paris in 2001 was discovered in the United States, where it was sent as… a Christmas gift, according to New York’s judicial authorities.

The painting is valued at many a million dollars, according to the Brooklyn D.A. It is estimated at 30 million euros.

According to verifiable information, a private transaction took place in London, amounting to around 300 million USD. A Paul Gauguin painting was sold. The piece of art is dated 1892 and is titled “Nafea Faa Ipoipo” (“When will you Marry?”)

Launched in 2012 by Istanbul Modern, the "Museums Talk" program continues with the United Kingdom. Aiming to establish a new conversation platform between leading international museum professionals and audiences in Turkey, the program will host Tate Modern Director Chris Dercon on Feb. 13. He will make a speech titled "The Future of Museums." 

Five paintings by French impressionist Claude Monet, including his famous 1908 "Le Grand Canal" view of Venice, sold for a total of $84 million (73 million euros) in a London auction on Feb. 3.
      
"Le Grand Canal", a hazy blue-and-green view of the banks of the Italian city painted at the peak of Monet's career, sold for $35.6 million (31.4 million euros).
      

PARIS - Serbian painters and twin brothers Slobodan and Vladimir Peskirevic have officially been named Ambassadors of the Land of Impressionism, becoming the first in art history and history in general to receive such recognition.

As the originators of what the French refer to as new post-impressionism, the brothers won two top prizes in 2011.

For the last couple of years, I have had a bitter taste in my mouth while returning from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, worrying about Turkey.

Those times when Turkey was treated as the ?rising star? in the Davos sessions have been very much left behind.  

A “shimmering” Paul Cezanne painting of the Mediterranean with a castle in the background is expected to attract the big-money buyers at a February auction that includes works by Modigliani, Giacometti and Picasso, Christie’s has said.

BELGRADE - The reconstruction of the National Museum in Belgrade, which has been closed to the public since as far back as 2003, began on Saturday.

Serbian Minister of Culture Ivan Tasovac visited the museum, announcing that the country's oldest museum institution will reopen in the spring of 2016.

An exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso will be one of the central events in the 2015 cultural calendar organized by the Cervantes Institute and the Spanish Embassy in Sofia.

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