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On This Cooking Show, the Ingredients Make You High
AMSTERDAM — Edibles is the word most often used for foods that make marijuana and other hallucinogens go down easy. Think pot brownies and space cakes — not exactly famous for pleasing the palate.Stolen Picasso Painting Is Recovered in Amsterdam, Investigator Says
AMSTERDAM — An art crimes investigator in the Netherlands said Tuesday that he had recovered Pablo Picasso’s 1938 painting “Portrait of Dora Maar,” which was stolen from the yacht of its Saudi Arabian owner in the south of France in 1999.David Lynch's Art Peers Behind the Facade
MAASTRICHT, Netherlands — Exploring the Bonnefanten Museum’s David Lynch retrospective here, “Someone Is in My House,” one starts to conjure an image of Lynch’s hands: They must never stop moving.
TEFAF Maastricht Refocuses Its Lineup
MAASTRICHT, Netherlands — TEFAF, one of the world’s most opulent art fairs, held every year in the southern Netherlands town of Maastricht, offers an encyclopedic array of paintings, sculpture, antiques and antiquities, presented in custom booths designed as mini-museums. This year’s showcase takes place at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Center from Saturday to March 24, decorated, as usual, with wall-to-wall carpeting and thousands of tulips.Into the Woods, With Vincent
AMSTERDAM — It’s easy to miss the Vincent van Gogh paintings at “Hockney/Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature.”The Mood of His Film, Within a Diamond
ANTWERP, Belgium — Enter, the diamond. A 12-carat white double diamond, crafted out of two raw stones, sat on a black plinth in a glass vitrine in the center of a nearly empty white-walled space in an Antwerp museum.The 'Godfather of Animated Cinema' Makes More Than Just Movies
AMSTERDAM — The Czech master of surrealist cinema, Jan Svankmajer, is revered by animators for his stop-motion movies that are by turns absurd, grotesque, erotic and horrific.
An Overlooked artist finds a spotlight at masterpiece
As a young woman trying to educate herself to become an artist in the 1930s and ’40s in fascist Italy, Bice Lazzari once said that the only resource she had was illegally imported art magazines. “For many, the only way to survive artistically was to establish a continuous dialogue with oneself: a challenging monologue to build one’s own art,” she wrote.
How different are van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'?
The two-month visit ended disastrously. The two artists had a blowout fight, and van Gogh sliced off his ear, suffered a mental breakdown and ended up in the hospital. Gauguin fled back to Paris.
#MeToo work at Art Basel offers cautionary tale about political art
Ethics scholars said the incident at the fair, which ran through Sunday, offered a case study in the complexity of creating political art.
Tune in, turn on and eat up
AMSTERDAM — Edibles is the word most often used for foods that make marijuana and other hallucinogens go down easy. Think pot brownies and space cakes — not exactly famous for pleasing the palate.
In a musical 'Death in Venice,' the author is present
AMSTERDAM — At an Amsterdam rehearsal studio one recent afternoon, Thomas Mann, the German author who died in 1955, was speaking with the main character of his novella, “Death in Venice.”
Van Gogh the wild man? Try Van Gogh the suburban professional
LONDON — We like to think of Vincent van Gogh as a creature of the elements: buffeted by the wind and rain, or going mad in the sunflower fields under the wilting Provençal sun.
Luc Tuymans, painting's savior, tries something new
This month at the Palazzo Grassi, looking out over the Grand Canal in Venice, visitors will find a beautiful new floor in the atrium, made of thousands of Italian marble tiles.
A painting looted by and returned to Nazis finally goes to its Jewish owners
AMSTERDAM — A cathedral in Germany has agreed to return a Nazi-looted painting to the heirs of Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus, an Austrian Jewish couple from whom it was stolen in 1941, according to the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, which has spent the last eight years negotiating the restitution.
Into the woods, with Vincent
The brilliant palette of Hockney’s 2008 “More Felled Trees on Woldgate” looks psychedelic next to van Gogh’s subdued cobalts and azures in “The Garden of St. Paul’s Hospital (‘Leaf Fall’)” from 1889.
The relevance of Rembrandt, 350 years later
He was 63 at the time, but scholars say there is no record of any illness. The poets might say he died of grief, about a year after the death of his only surviving son, Titus.
A photographer who makes you ask, 'what has happened here?'
The brunette with a yellow ribbon in her hair seems to have just halted in the doorway of her hotel room.
The mood of his film, within a diamond
Next to it, a museum visitor is invited to wear a virtual reality helmet and step inside an enlarged rendition of the same double diamond, and to stand for a moment inside its silent, glittering core.
