EuropeanA Long Smouldering Rumour out of the Bahamas...
AAD REPORTS 26/07/2017During a visit to Nassau in 2004 by one of AAD's reporters, it was heard that Sir Winston Churchill stuck the abdicated Edward VII under American house arrest for the duration of the war because of his pro Nazi leanings.
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EuropeanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - Venice Pt.2
AAD REPORTS 20/07/2017Natalie Pack in Venice - Follow Natalie on Instagram @nataliepack
William Merritt Chase, Venice - after the rain
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EuropeanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - Venice
AAD REPORTS 18/07/2017Natalie Pack in San Marco Square, Venice - Follow Natalie on Instagram @nataliepack
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Piazzo San Marco, Venice
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Saint Marks, Venice
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EuropeanBirds of a feather
AAD REPORTS 12/07/2017Perhaps an even bigger fraud than Mould, Stunt recently called Ecclestone an "evil dwarf", well hopefully the man that put Formula One into the major sporting series on the planet will get his just revenge when this spoiled little thug gets exposed as a...[Read More]border
EuropeanMaster Swag: The heist is the highlight of doldrums...
AAD REPORTS 11/07/2017In a stealthy heist reminiscent of a Hollywood movie, jewels valued at up to £3 million ($3.9 million) were stolen from the booth of Geneva-based jeweler Boghossian at London’s Masterpiece Art Fair.
Officials believe the theft took place overnight...[Read More]border
European"Brexit": Democracy in Action
Elliot Lee 26/06/2017First published 26.6.2016
“Brexit” was a triumph of democracy. Prime Minister Cameron kept his word, and delivered the United Kingdom something which the EU commissars never have, and never will. What we saw on Thursday of last week, was a democratic...[Read More]border
EuropeanAbandoned Italian Village
AAD REPORTS 15/06/2017In the province of Benevento in southern Italy, there once stood a village that went by the name of Tocco Caudio.
The village, as is the case with many ancient Italian towns, was built on top of a long, narrow hill. The reason why this village is...[Read More]border
EuropeanWake Up Call Re-visited On The Eve of Elections
Elliot Lee 04/06/2017As the UK parliamentary election looms this week, and arguably the country’s worst ever terrorist attack having just happened a short time ago in Manchester, and now, yet another attack in London, it would be fair to say that there is complete...[Read More]border
EuropeanVan Gogh Museum Recoveries
AAD REPORTS 27/05/2017Watch how the two missing paintings returned to their home on the Van Gogh museum's instagram page.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUZj5KxgJkn/
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EuropeanA Retired British Doctor Is Hoping To Trace The...
AAD REPORTS 22/05/2017A retired British doctor is hoping to trace the descendants of allied soldiers and nurses portrayed in a celebrated collection of World War One pastels.
Doug Jenkinson, 70, became aware of the work of Swiss artist Eugene Burnand while exploring his own...[Read More]border
EuropeanPrince Philip in Quotes
AAD REPORTS 04/05/2017Editor's Note: A throw back to when men were men, and the best remarks flowed once women and children were excused from the dinner table.
Britain's Prince Philip, who is to retire from public engagements at the age of 95, earned a reputation for...[Read More]border
EuropeanThe Master of Fear
AAD REPORTS 04/05/2017Editor's note: first published in the July 2012 SD Galway match programme, then published again on Ireland's Waterford United FC website in 2013. Published here with the kind permission of the club.
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EuropeanRoman Marble Bust of Drusus Heads Home
AAD REPORTS 24/04/2017Roman marble bust of Drusus
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Cleveland Museum of Art and the government of Italy announced Tuesday that the museum would return to Italy an ancient Roman marble portrait head of Drusus Minor after...[Read More]border
EuropeanBritish Castles for Rent
AAD REPORTS 16/04/201713 British Castles You Can Rent For Under $100 Per Night. Explore all these British Famous castles and be the first of your friends to live like royalty.
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EuropeanAuctionata—The Fast Food of the Art World
Alessandra Massameno 06/04/2017Have you ever had a hankering for a burger? A craving so strong, so compelling, that you’d favor efficiency over quality? Maybe cost factors into it—you don’t need a $45 foie-gras-stuffed truffle burger from The Boom Boom Room to sate...[Read More]border
EuropeanEU boss threatens to break up US in retaliation for...
AAD REPORTS 31/03/2017EUROPEAN Union boss Jean-Claude Juncker issued a jaw-dropping threat to the United States, saying he could campaign to break up the country in revenge for Donald Trump’s supportive comments about Brexit.
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EuropeanLondon found in Motion Pictures
Elliot Lee 28/03/2017Early footage of London, and paintings of London as it was during visits by some of the most famous impressionist painters of the day. Atmospheric and enchanting, these paintings and footage serve as glorious visions of the London of yesteryear. Today's...[Read More]border
EuropeanMassive Gold Coin Worth Millions Stolen from German...
AAD REPORTS 27/03/2017
BERLIN (AP) — Thieves broke into the German capital's Bode Museum before dawn Monday and made off with a massive 100-kilogram (221-pound) gold coin worth millions of dollars, police said.
Police spokesman Stefen Petersen said thieves apparently...[Read More]border
EuropeanLobster Painting Symbolises Britain Taking back its...
AAD REPORTS 27/03/2017Britain is to pull out of a deal that allows European fishing vessels access to its waters, Theresa May is expected to announce.
The move would see the UK taken out of the 1964 London convention, which predates the establishment of the EU, and...[Read More]border
EuropeanWatch Ukraine's Largest Munitions Depot Turn Into A...
AAD REPORTS 25/03/2017Well we wonder who could have caused this to happen?
Watch Ukraine's Largest Munitions Depot Transformed Into Massive Fireball
Ukraine's largest munitions depot literally blew up yesterday, sending mushroom clouds rising and rockets...[Read More]border
EuropeanGerman Design Legacy That Visually Punctuates The...
AAD REPORTS 24/03/2017Art Deco hard points dot the verdant landscape of Normandy. Stylistic as seen from above, new drone photos of indestructible German pillboxes that linger on punctuation marks to a past which today's snowflakes could never comprehend, nor have the courage...[Read More]border
EuropeanIvory trade and Why Did Greenland's Vikings...
AAD REPORTS 20/03/2017On the grassy slope of a fjord near the southernmost tip of Greenland stand the ruins of a church built by Viking settlers more than a century before Columbus sailed to the Americas. The thick granite-block walls remain intact, as do the 20-foot-high...[Read More]border
EuropeanKnights Templar Hiding Place in UK
AAD REPORTS 18/03/2017A stunning network of caves has been found down a rabbit hole on a farmer’s land near Shifnal in Shropshire, England. Reportedly the Caynton Caves were used by followers of the Knights Templar in the 17th century. Located less than a meter (3.3ft)...[Read More]border
EuropeanParis, Motion Pictures and the Age of...
AAD REPORTS 18/03/2017Prior to recents, this series of reuniting long lost motion pictures from the 19th century with the great paintings of the leadings had been planned. New York and London have already been completed here at AAD, so here is Paris as it was in the era of...[Read More]border
EuropeanAbandoned London Mansion
AAD REPORTS 01/03/2017Abandoned London Mansion - Empty since 1895:
To see the images:
http://headcramp.com/empty-old-mansion/7/?bdk=b6c23842541946160608&as=6c23842541946160608
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EuropeanTrove of Dazzling Bronze Age Weapons Unearthed in...
AAD REPORTS 25/02/2017Alex Salmond's strategic stockpile found?
Excavations during the construction of two soccer fields in Scotland have turned up a rare discovery — a Bronze-Age weapon hoard, including a notched bronze sword and a gold-decorated spearhead. The...[Read More]border
EuropeanHolt's Quarterly Gun Sale, London
AAD REPORTS 21/02/2017Renowned internationally for their quarterly sporting and gun auctions, Holts' next fine modern and antique guns sale is set to take place on Thursday 16th March in London. In the first of their main sales this year, there will be aproximatelly 900...[Read More]border
EuropeanEurope must not bow to U.S. spending demands on NATO:...
AAD REPORTS 18/02/2017As Americans are starting to be indignant over the swinish attitude displayed by Euro buffoon Jean-Claude Junker. How a slippery policy from a non military country keeps on fantasizing about a Euro military, while skipping NATO minimums is a venture into...[Read More]border
EuropeanSeven held over $72 million Amsterdam diamond heist...
AAD REPORTS 17/02/2017No statute of limitations in the Netherlands.
Police "carried out, on Friday January 20 and Saturday January 21, 2017, a total of seven arrests in connection with the diamond theft at Schiphol airport in February 2005 and money laundering," the...[Read More]border
EuropeanEngland's National Past Time
AAD REPORTS 13/02/2017
This is the kind of thing that used to happen at football (not soccer) matches every Saturday afternoon back in the late 1980s, especially when the West Ham girly-boys used to visit Loftus Road (QPR).
West London la la la….
Massive...[Read More]border
EuropeanBrexit Bill Gets Go Ahead From Parliament
AAD REPORTS 02/02/2017Editors Note: 498 to 114, a majority of 384. That is function, something lacking from the EU parliament across the channel in Brussels.
Perhaps their representatives should take note of what a real legislative body can do when not subservient to...[Read More]border
EuropeanBad boys of Brexit welcomed with open arms in USA
AAD REPORTS 20/01/2017Nigel Farage, Westmonster’s Arron Banks and his right-hand man, Andy Wigmore, are in the US capital attending the Presidential inauguration.
On the trip the trio will also be spending time with the Governor of Mississippi, Phil Bryant, who...[Read More]border
EuropeanRuling Paves Way for Transfer of Art Trove Including...
AAD REPORTS 17/12/2016BERLIN — A German man who had stashed a trove of art that included works stolen by the Nazis was of sound mind when he bequeathed his father’s collection to the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern, Switzerland, a Munich court ruled on Thursday. The...[Read More]border
EuropeanAncient Greece: Huge long lost city discovered near...
AAD REPORTS 15/12/2016A previously unknown ancient city has been revealed on mainland Greece near the village of Vlochós to the north of Athens. The city walls encompass a fortified area of about 40 hectares, with a residential area taking up about 15 hectares of that...[Read More]border
EuropeanDa Vinci Discovery: Rare Drawing, Valued at $16m,...
AAD REPORTS 13/12/2016Leonardo - Saint Sebastian
A rare drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, valued at almost $16 million, has been discovered by a French auction house.
Paris-based auction house Tajan announced the discovery of “The Martyred Saint...[Read More]border
EuropeanItalian PM Matteo Renzi to Resign in Wake of...
AAD REPORTS 05/12/2016Editors Note: Renzi was a nice guy in a bad place. The global mood that gave us Brexit and Trump, took yet another casualty from the forces of the status quo. Political referendums may not seem like an obvious art subject, but the turmoil this signifies...[Read More]border
EuropeanCode Hidden in Stone Age Art May be the Root of Human...
AAD REPORTS 10/11/2016A painstaking investigation of Europe’s cave art has revealed 32 shapes and lines that crop up again and again and could be the world’s oldest code
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EuropeanLouvre and Leonardo
AAD REPORTS 09/11/2016On Wednesday, the Louvre Museum in Paris will unveil the hotly-anticipated restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s St. John the Baptist (1513). The painting is considered one of the masterpieces the legendary artist crafted in his...[Read More]border
EuropeanImpacted Impasto, Evidence of the "Role Up"...
Robert Alexander Boyle 07/11/2016
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), The Night Cafe, 1889, Yale University Art Gallery
Headlines were made when an old friends book was mentioned in the New York Post this past Sunday. Veteran journalist picked up where we left off several years ago in the...[Read More]border
EuropeanHigh Tech Corner of the UK
AAD REPORTS 28/10/2016The Shambles: One of Britain’s best preserved Medieval streets
Located in the heart of the city of York, England, the Shambles is an old medieval street, often called Europe’s best preserved, with overhanging timber-framed buildings, some...[Read More]border
EuropeanAfter 950 years, Battle of Hastings Plays out...
AAD REPORTS 18/10/2016Arrows flew and swords clanged as thousands re-enacted the Battle of Hastings on its 950th anniversary on Saturday at a sold-out event marking a bloody day that changed the course of English history.
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EuropeanInstagram Echoes of Artists Past
AAD REPORTS 18/10/2016S.fantine on Instagram - Follow @s_fantine
French Nude Painting circa 1910 By Richard E. Miller
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EuropeanUnder Sea Wreck Founds Extraordinarily Well...
AAD REPORTS 10/10/2016Over 40 mysterious shipwrecks have been discovered in the depths of the Black Sea
An international expedition has identified the remains of ancient ships – some of which had never been seen before.
The first maritime archaeology...[Read More]border
EuropeanKim Kardashian West's bodyguard 'declared bankruptcy...
AAD REPORTS 06/10/2016Kim Kardashian West's bodyguard filed for bankruptcy for his German security company ten weeks ago with debts of more than €1 million, according to documents obtained by MailOnline.
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EuropeanKim Kardashian Held at Gunpoint During Paris Fashion...
AAD REPORTS 04/10/2016Kim Kardashian is reunited with Kanye in NY - flanked by security - after fleeing Paris on private jet following £8.5m jewellery robbery by gang who bound and gagged her and put a gun to her head.
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EuropeanBrexit Divorce Lawyers Eye Up EU’s Art Collection...
AAD REPORTS 02/10/2016Britain is planning to claim a share of the EU’s 42,000-bottle cellar of wine, cognac and other spirits, its art collection and its €8.7bn property portfolio as the government gears up to haggle over Brexit with Brussels.
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EuropeanJean Claude Junker Coming Attraction: Future Now,...
AAD REPORTS 29/09/2016Editors Note: Idiotic Euro president baffled by Brexit, now confronted with the end result of stagnation, as weak demographics and bad economic policies push Europe over the edge. How does it end, not with a bang, but a whimper....
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EuropeanBailout Inspectors Back in Greece as Reforms...
AAD REPORTS 13/09/2016 Frederic Edwin Church (American, Hartford, Connecticut 1826–1900 New York), 1871 - Oil on canvas @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Editor's Note: With Greece going bankrupt, they won't be able to afford to take the Elgin Marbles back. Rumor...[Read More]border
EuropeanThe EU's most powerful official says 'borders are the...
AAD REPORTS 23/08/2016Editor's Note: The biggest nitwit in Europe speaks. Singlehandedly the greatest mouthpiece for the dissolution of NATO only to be replaced by paper.
The European Union's most powerful official says increasing border control is not how Europe...[Read More]border
EuropeanIrish Partition Affects Railroads?
AAD REPORTS 05/08/2016 Editor's Note: If one were to look at present WW2 railways and what we have today, the difference would be far greater. Post World War Two, the United States built these things called highways. The largest of all are called federal interstates....[Read More]border
EuropeanEU's Juncker Keeps Black Book on Political Foes
AAD REPORTS 02/08/2016Editor's Note: Besides Merkel's incompetence on the migrant issue, this bitter little fellow Juncker may be the best symbol of what failed Europe. A politician not elected by the populace and keeping an enemies list, personifies democracy...[Read More]border
EuropeanFossil Discovery On Britain's Coast
AAD REPORTS 01/08/2016Can you say “She sells seashells by the seashore” five times fast? It’s tricky!
And if you’re like most people, you’ve been twisting your tongue over that one for years. In fact, people have been trying to say it without...[Read More]border
EuropeanThe real Van Gogh: A Genius Not Driven By Madness But...
AAD REPORTS 28/07/2016Was Van Gogh really mad? Did his madness drive his art? And did he really cut off his ear and give it to a prostitute? These are the key questions in On The Verge of Insanity at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. And the answers are: yes (sometimes);...[Read More]border
EuropeanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - Bonsoir Paris
AAD REPORTS 26/07/2016Pic of the Day - Real life Photos Made Famous By Artists:
At The Window,1875 by the French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894)
BONSOIR PARIS - Follow Juli Proven on instagram @juliproven
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AAD REPORTS 19/07/2016Yesterday, 11pm Anakara Time, WikiLeaks released part one of the AKP Emails. AKP, or the Justice & Development Party, is the ruling party of Turkey and is the political force behind the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Part one of the...[Read More]border
EuropeanMasterpiece 2016 Lands Safely
Elliot Lee 11/07/2016It must have been a tough decision for some dealers as to whether to take part in the London Summer season 2016. With Brexit and all that that encompassed, the 2016 season was always going to assert some form of uncertainty in the market, so the dealers...[Read More]border
EuropeanDigs Uncover Buildings in Cyprus' 11,000-Year-Old...
AAD REPORTS 11/07/2016Recent archaeological digs have uncovered more than 20 round buildings in what is believed to be Cyprus' earliest known village, dating as far back as the 9th century B.C., the east Mediterranean island's Department of Antiquities said Tuesday.
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EuropeanErdogan Loses Appeal Against German Media Boss
AAD REPORTS 22/06/2016Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lost a German court battle against a top media boss Tuesday when his appeal in a bitter row over free speech was thrown out.
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EuropeanRussian Athletes Banned From Olympic Games for Doping...
AAD REPORTS 17/06/2016Russia has become the first country in sporting history to have its athletics team banned from an Olympic games because of doping offences, in an unprecedented ruling that will increase tensions between the Kremlin and the west.
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EuropeanHe-115 Luftwaffe Float Plane recovered from a Fjord In...
AAD REPORTS 14/06/2016Lost in December 1942, what is thought to be the only salvaged He-115 in existence, has been towed to the shore where a crane lifted it from the water.
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EuropeanGiant Rock Sphere Discovered in Bosnia Linked to...
AAD REPORTS 11/06/2016Bosnia’s “Indiana Jones” of archaeology have found a massive, mysterious sphere embedded in the ground in a forest in Bosnia.
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European"Brexit": Unelected Neil Kinnock Shows Us...
Elliot Lee 05/06/2016
They do say that great minds think alike, so the question has to be asked, how does Prime Minister Cameron and his 'remain' camp feel about Lord Neil Kinnock being the latest signatory and call center helper in his campaign? Perhaps that big government...[Read More]border
EuropeanFrisky in Flooded Paris
Maura Haverly 05/06/2016The waters are rising again in Paris. After days of torrential rains, the Seine rose to 6.3 (21 feet) meters, the highest level in more than 30 years and more rain is expected. The Musee d’Orsay is closed, as is the Louvre, which is moving artwork...[Read More]border
EuropeanSepp Blatter and Deputies Arranged Huge Payouts After...
AAD REPORTS 03/06/2016Days after several of his colleagues were awakened in their hotel rooms by the police and arrested on corruption charges last year, Sepp Blatter, the longtime president of FIFA, made an important decision. He decided he deserved a raise.
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EuropeanScientists Finally Know What Stopped Mongol Hordes...
AAD REPORTS 03/06/2016In 1206, Genghis Khan, a fierce tribal chieftain from northern Mongolia, began to take over the world. The khan’s ruthless tactics and loyal horde swept across Asia.
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EuropeanDomenico Scala, FIFA's Independent Audit Committee...
AAD REPORTS 14/05/2016Statement of Domenico Scala
"On the occasion of its meeting of yesterday, the FIFA Congress has delegated the election, or the dismissal respectively, of the members of the independent supervisory bodies – such as the Ethics Committee, the Appeal...[Read More]border
EuropeanNothing like these Hidden Temples exist outside of the...
AAD REPORTS 05/05/2016"Show us these temples or we will dynamite the entire hillside”, threatened Italy’s state prosecutor when police had failed to locate a rumoured network of mysterious chambers buried 30 metres in the foothills of the Alps.
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EuropeanHappy Birthday Queen Elizabeth II
AAD REPORTS 21/04/2016Today marks the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, so we're going to go out and get drunk and celebrate.
Below are a few public domain Images which we think are really special.
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EuropeanWhat's Driving Wall Street to the Hamptons? Fear
AAD REPORTS 03/04/2016As the United Kingdom ponders the Brexit vote, Art Tourism to Europe may drop because of perceived incompetence, that's the conclusion of CNBC on the Hamptons Real Estate Market.
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EuropeanInconvenient Anti-Doping Head Dies of a Heart...
AAD REPORTS 15/02/2016The former head of Russia's anti-doping agency Rusada has died, the organisation says.
Nikita Kamaev's death comes two months after he resigned his post following a doping scandal in Russian athletics.
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European3D Laser Scanners Reveal 'lost' Roman roads
AAD REPORTS 13/02/2016Archaeologists are using Environment Agency laser mapping data to rediscover hundreds of kilometres of 'lost' Roman roads.
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EuropeanShed No Tears For Christie's
AAD REPORTS 26/01/2016Sotheby's are due to report earnings towards the end of February. The below is taken from the Christie's press release, sent out to media this morning. These are simply raw sale numbers which give us good insight into the macroeconomic swings of each...[Read More]border
EuropeanFrisky with the Medicis
Maura Haverly 14/12/2015You want to come to Paris, you know you do, for the holiday season. So much to do, so much to drink, um, see…but what exhibition to visit, that won’t leave you feeling tired and grumpy, jammed in queues snapping away at the Mona Lisa?
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EuropeanBiennale des Antiquaires Merges With Paris Tableau
Maura Haverly 23/11/2015Paris Tableau has announced that they will be joining with Biennale des Antiquaires as of 2016, in a widely praised decision.
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Middle EastBejewelled Treasures: The Al Thani Collection
Elliot Lee 20/11/2015 BejewelLed Treasures: The Al Thani Collection
Tiger Finial from the Throne of Tippoo Sultan (1750-1799), Mysore India, Circa 1790 Gold inlaid with Diamonds, Rubies and Emeralds - Image Courtsey | Alex Boyle, AAD
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EuropeanFrisky @ Paris Tableau 2015
Maura Haverly 11/11/2015German School, early 18th Century 'The World Turn’d Upside Down' - Oil on canvas: 75 x 45 in. (190.5 x 114.3 cm.) Painted early 1700s - The Weiss Gallery, London - Price 120,000 Euros
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EuropeanFrisky At FIAC
Maura Haverly 23/10/2015FIAC, the, Foire Internationale Art Contemporain, celebrated its 42nd birthday this year; but it still almost looks like a teenager! So many press outlets clamoured to cover the fair that my credentials arrived at literally the last minute, and my press...[Read More]border
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EuropeanParis Museums Now Open 7 Days a Week
Maura Haverly 14/09/2015The most visited museums in Paris, the most visited city in the world, will now be open 7 days a week, announced last week by President Hollande.
Among them are the Louvre, with 9.7 million visitors the single most visited museum in the world, and...[Read More]border
DesignThe Samaritaine, Common Sense Prevails
Maura Haverly 07/09/2015One city’s world-class architect is another’s world-class eyesore. Such is the case with the long, unhappy arguments over Samaritaine, the exceptionally beautiful long-closed department store which sits on some of the most valuable real...[Read More]border
EuropeanPAD, 9
AAD REPORTS 10/08/2015The Pavilion of Art and Design (PAD) enhances the spirit of it's offering for the 9th edition of the Fair, with an additional constituent of 12 distinguished international galleries.
Delivering an orbital panoply of artistic and creative qualification,...[Read More]border
EuropeanVlad The Shoplifter
Elliot Lee 10/08/2015
Recent news headlines included a brazen Hollywood style caper to hit London’s jewellry district, however, a much bigger heist recently happened in Moldova, this one likely in cahoots with Moscow.
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ArtDUSSELDORF PHOTOGRAPHY
AAD REPORTS 07/08/2015Ben Brown Fine Arts presents a cardinal survey of photography originating from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf after 1976. The exhibition proffers the opportunity to experience varying interpretations of the German ‘New Objectivity’ style...[Read More]border
EuropeanParis Biennale des Antiquaires: Biennale no more
Maura Haverly 23/07/2015The Syndicat National des Antiquaires, whose members read like a Who’s Who in the French antiques world, held an extraordinary meeting 26 June – and voted to make the Biennale an annual event, effective 2017. Although almost 2/3 of the...[Read More]border
ArtMajor Headscratching
Maura Haverly 18/07/2015The French Ministry of Culture has fired Nicholas Bourriaud as head of Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris (otherwise known as ENSBA) , and the rumour has it that the incoming Director, Eric de Chassey, is close friends with President Hollande’s close...[Read More]border
EuropeanCreative Industries, Resistant In Spite of Crises
Laure Kaltenbach 10/07/2015Representing 6,8% of the GDP (€860 billion of added value) and 6,5% of the employment in the European Union (€14 million), the positive impact of the creative activities and industries on the GDP of the European Union on the period 2008-2011 is...[Read More]border
ArtBasel: Home of Art & Architecture in...
AAD REPORTS 16/06/2015Basel counts with its 40 museums as the art capital of Switzerland – no other Swiss city has such a concentration of interesting places to visit. Museum buildings by acclaimed architects have endowed the beautifully preserved old city with...[Read More]border
ArtNew £1m Scottish ‘Multiverse’ artland is out of this...
AAD REPORTS 23/05/2015A stunning new work of land art will be unveiled this summer in Dumfries & Galloway, created by world-renowned landscape artist Charles Jencks.
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EuropeanVan Gogh, Irises and Roses, Metropolitan Museum
Robert Alexander Boyle 13/05/2015A small but potent show just went on display at the Met. Four striking canvases by Van Gogh of flowers are on display in the Lehman Wing, Irises and Roses from 1890, and they were painted 125 years ago to the day. Described in a letter to his brother as...[Read More]border
EuropeanChelsea Pensioners Honoured for Their Service during...
AAD REPORTS 07/05/2015Wearing their iconic scarlet uniforms, 63 Chelsea Pensioners were photographed at their home the Royal Hospital Chelsea on Thursday 23 April.
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AAD REPORTS 01/05/2015Graham McKean :: The Night Shift 92cm x 61cm - Est. £3000 - £5000
An outstanding auction of over 400 paintings including no less than 5 exceptional works by John Lowrie Morrison, 2 Hamish MacDonalds, and the first 2 examples of the...[Read More]border
ArtBeit Paintings: Russborough House Old Masters for...
Michael Parsons 01/05/2015“Old master” paintings worth millions of euro from the Beit Collection at Russborough House, Co Wicklow, are to be sold by auction at Christie’s in London to raise urgently needed funds for the upkeep of the stately home. The paintings...[Read More]border
ArtWest Dean College appoints new Head of School of...
AAD REPORTS 30/04/2015West Dean College has appointed Shayne Rivers MA (RCA), a world renowned expert in the conservation of furniture and Asian lacquer, as Head of Conservation. Rivers joins the College after 16 years at the Victoria & Albert Museum where she was Senior...[Read More]border
EuropeanLetter to Prime Minister David Cameron, & The...
Elliot Lee 05/06/2014UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Some of you might recall recent news of a recent clamp down on ‘dealer-rings’?
After some research into this perplexing and seemingly uncalled for enhancement of an existing law, it became clear to us at...[Read More]border
EuropeanNews: Rotterdam Kunstal, The Sequel
Margie FitzSimons 19/11/2013To review the basics of this case: Radu Dogaru, the one whose mother, Olga, first said she burned all of the above art and then retracted her statement, Alexandru Bitu, and Eugen Darie, who described bringing the paintings in a car to Romania, confessed...[Read More]border
ArtRemembering a Formidable Artist
The Epoch Times 15/11/2013
Christine Lin @ The Epoch Times
Before she passed away this June, Martha Erlebacher was a prolific artist and demanding teacher. The New York Academy of Art is holding her first ever retrospective.
NEW YORK—Here’s a hypothetical...[Read More]border
EuropeanSojourn In The South Of France
Chloe Nelkin 24/07/2013Ridiculous as this may seem, it is nearly a month since I went to France and this is the first chance I have actually had to sit down and properly reflect on my trip – apart from my usual frantic running around I have had a particularly bad bout of...[Read More]border
FairsFrisky At The Summer Olympia
Maura Haverly 08/06/2013Well, I took myself off to the International Art and Antiques Fair at Olympia yesterday, with a Modern British colleague (which is less painful than it sounds). And I was excited! 41st annual!180 exhibitors from around the world! Art! Antiques! Jewelry!...[Read More]border
EuropeanArtist's Resale Right In The UK, Are They...
AAD REPORTS 30/05/2013I think that the main issues and unfairness of this legislation have been well covered in the correspondences. I think most of us have come into the trade from a love of what we choose to deal in. Perhaps in the past a good living was to be made by many...[Read More]border
EuropeanCuckoos In Spring
Tom Higginson 21/05/2013Politics is the art of looking for trouble , finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and then applying the wrong remedy“ Ernest Benn 1875-1954
Have you heard the first cuckoo yet asked my wife over breakfast ( we rarely...[Read More]border
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