Lewd van Gogh and Gauguin Letter Sells at Auction, China’s Museums Close Again, and More: Morning Links from June 17, 2020
Here's what we're reading this morning.
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Vincent van Gogh
New Google Tool Transforms Photos Using the Style of Art History’s Masters
Google Arts and Culture has collaborated with the Getty Museum and other art institutions to make masterpieces available as photo filters.
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Near-Death Self-Portraits: Edvard Munch, van Gogh, and More Confront Mortality
See some of the last self-portraits made Frida Kahlo, Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, and more great artists.
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Will Coronavirus Forever Change the Chemical Compositions of Artworks?
The Art Institute of Chicago's head of conservation discusses how to sanitize galleries and keep artworks safe.
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Video Footage Shows How Thieves Used Sledgehammer to Steal Noted van Gogh Painting
Van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was stolen from the Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands last month.
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What’s the Best Painting by van Gogh? Eight Experts Reveal Their Favorite Works
Curators from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and other international institutions weighed in.
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Prized Van Gogh Painting Stolen from Dutch Museum Closed Because of Coronavirus
The work, dated to 1884, was made early in the artist's career while he still lived in the Netherlands.
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Mori Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, and Other Japanese Art Institutions Shutter Temporarily Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Tokyo's National Museum of Western Art was also forced to delay an exhibition featuring loans of major works from the National Gallery in London.
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Van Gogh Museum Acquires Degas Pastel from the Artist’s Seminal Series of Nudes
The pastel work is the first of its kind to enter the Dutch national collection.
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Van Gogh Self-Portrait Painted While the Artist Experienced Psychosis Is Authenticated by Experts
The painting is part of the collection of the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo.
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Newswire
GoldDerby
Which previous Best Actor nominee should finally claim an Oscar in the 2021 race? Timothee Chalamet, Matt Damon … [POLL]
TVLine
MythBusters' Grant Imahara Dead at 49
BGR
The US coronavirus response is so bad for a reason you probably didn’t even realize
Rolling Stone
PUMA Taps YBN Cordae For Colorful New ‘Unity’ Campaign
SPY