Picasso works stolen from granddaughter - Yahoo! News

Picasso works stolen from granddaughter - Yahoo! News:

"The paintings, 'Maya and the Doll' and 'Portrait of Jacqueline' by Picasso -- worth a total of nearly $66 million -- were stolen from the artist's granddaughter's house in Paris overnight Monday to Tuesday.

The Art Loss Register, which maintains the world's largest database on stolen, missing and looted art, currently lists 444 missing Picasso pieces, including paintings, lithographs, drawings and ceramics. Among recent missing Picassos reported to the register was the theft of an abstract watercolor stolen in Mexico."

The Russians are Coming

Russian musicians to visit SIUC School of Music, March 6 & 7, to perform Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 with the Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra at two venues: Shryock and The First United Methodist Church.

Lucky 13 in Mt. Vernon

Reported in FLIPSIDE Online: Thirteen Carbondale artists will display their work in the Mitchell Museum's main gallery at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts in Mt. Vernon, beginning this Saturday, Feb. 24 through May 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free.

The exhibit features the art of Andrea Buckvold, Luca Cruzat, Harris Deller, Ann Dodge, Cheonae Kim, L. Brent Kington, Jiyong Lee, Alex Lopez, Michael Onken, De Sande R, Rick Smith, Jason Urban and Chris Wildrick. Their works include photography, acrylic, ceramics and oil paint.

Juried student art exhibition on display this week

Juried student art exhibition on display this week:

"The Graduate Sculpture Student Organization at Southern Illinois University Carbondale presents the first SIUC Juried Student Art Exhibition. The exhibit will be in the Surplus Gallery in the Glove Factory, on the corner of East College and South Washington streets in Carbondale. First, second and third place winners will receive $100, $50 and $25, respectively.

The exhibit will be open Thursday, Feb. 22, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, Feb. 23, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. The reception and awards presentation are set for Friday, Feb. 23, from 6 to 9 p.m. The events are free and open to the public.

Mel Watkin, the director of the photography gallery at the Public Policy Research Center of University of Missouri, St. Louis, will jury this inaugural exhibition."

Strange statues around the world

One of Art Lovers favorite artists and dear friend, Christa Barnell, has moved to colder, but greener, pastures in Michigan, from where she sends this link to strange statues around the world posted on haha.nu - a lifestyle blogzine.

Which gives Art Lovers an idea..... How about an imaginative statue in Town Square?

One man's urinal, is another man's art

Yahoo! News reports in France: Court upholds urinal attack conviction:

"The self-proclaimed performance artist who attacked a urinal symbolic of the anarchic Dada movement with a hammer had his three-month suspended sentence upheld by a French court Friday.

Known as 'Fountain' and first exhibited by surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp in 1917, the ceramic urinal was slightly cracked by Pierre Pinoncelli's attack in January 2006.

'It was a nod to Dadaism, I wanted to pay homage to the spirit of Dada,' said Pinoncelli, 78, who complained about the 'non-recognition of his artistic act.'"