Aad Hoogendoorn/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen A child has damaged a painting worth millions of pounds by the American artist Mark Rothko at a museum in Rotterdam. A spokesperson for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen said it was considering the “next steps” for the treatment of Rothko’s Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8. The damage occurred...
Shivani Chaudhari BBC News, Essex Grove Gallery Alexandra Johnson has sold her works for tens of thousands of pounds Alexandra Johnson was already grieving her mother’s death when Covid-19 hit the UK in 2020. As a former city trader, she had no formal art qualifications, but she nonetheless decided to manage the boredom and channel...
EP review Action Painting! Scatterflats EP Old Bad Habits DL / Limited 10″ vinyl Out 19 April 2025 Action Painting! (1989-95) were ‘the black sheep of Sarah Records’. The Emotional Response compilation Trial Cuts (released 2018) brings together their recorded works and sounds fresh and vital still. Thirty years on the Greek Old Bad Habits...
Tate Britain is set to return a 17th Century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector, after it was taken from his home by Nazis during World War Two. Painter Henry Gibbs’ 1654 work, Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, was taken by the Nazis as “an act of racial persecution”,...