Jodie Foster to Direct Film Based on Infamous 1911 ‘Mona Lisa’ Theft
The movie will be based on a 1981 book recounting the crime.
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‘Very Lively, Very Punchy’: A Leonardo da Vinci Expert on Salvador DalÃ’s ARTnews Essay About the Artist
Can the essay be taken seriously as a historical contribution? Martin Kemp responds.
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Salvador Dalà on Why People Attack Leonardo’s ‘Mona Lisa,’ in 1963: From the Archives
The artist addressed why people felt inclined to attack or deface the painting throughout history.
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Theft! Forgery! Murder!: Art History’s Greatest Crimes
From the earliest moments of recorded civilization there have been instances of art being the subject of violence, theft, and destruction. Art and crime will forever be linked, and this should come…
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Morning Links: Living Mona Lisa Edition
A group of French technicians and artists created a really creepy “Living Mona Lisa” that can respond to her surroundings and emote, because this is exactly what you asked for. [artnet News] Despite…
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Retrospective: When Mona Lisa Went Back to Italy
And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago
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Anonymous No More: Bringing Contemporary Tibetan Art to the U.S.
A groundbreaking museum exhibition features surprisingly candid artworks from a society in conflict and change
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She Has a Hot Smile: Dalà on the Mona Lisa Attacks
And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago
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Captured This Week
In Captured This Week, Art in America takes a look at art by culling the collections of Flickr photographers from around the world. This week we look as far-off as Long Island City, Queens…
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Carried Away with the Mona Lisa
In the 1970s, writer and filmmaker Joe Medeiros was reading up on Leonardo da Vinci when a sentence in Liana Bortolon's book The Life and Times of Leonardo caught his eye. It mentioned the infamous…
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She’s baaack! ‘American Idol’ sensation Margie Mays returns to audition for the judges … with a twist [WATCH]
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Better Call Saul Season 5 Premiere Recap: Do You Believe in Magic?
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Apple tried to ban an insider’s book about the company – now it’s a bestseller
Rolling Stone
How JPMorgan Chase Became the Doomsday Bank
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