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Police imposters pulled off the world’s biggest art heist 33 years ago. Can a haunted man and $10m reward solve it?

Two thieves dressed as Boston cops made off with $500m in stolen art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than three decades ago. No arrests have ever been made, the case remains unsolved, and the museum’s chief investigator is still actively searching for the art — as a $10m…

The Independent UK

Police imposters pulled off the world’s biggest art heist 33 years ago. Can a haunted man and $10m reward solve it?

The Independent UK

Vermeer’s luminous interiors gave us a new way into the inner worlds of others

His celebration of the mundane reflected the beginnings of a modern sensibility

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A world of wonders and catastrophes: discovering Vermeer and his hometown

As the biggest ever show of the artist’s work is unveiled in Amsterdam, we retrace the enigmatic painter’s footsteps in Delft and also The Hague

The Guardian - UK

Vermeer review – one of the most thrilling exhibitions ever conceived

Moments of profound absorption, a glance, a letter… the mystery and stillness of the Dutch master’s work deepens the closer you get in this near-perfect show

The Guardian - UK

Much of a Dutchness: the world’s biggest ever Vermeer show is an unmissable feast

A milkmaid daydreaming, a mistress clutching a letter, a city waking at dawn … Vermeer was a master of the intimate, absorbing moment – and this sublime show frees his glorious vision

The Guardian - UK

Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - a once in a generation show, don’t miss it

A knock-out exhibition like this – pretty much all killer and no filler – won’t happen again for at least 30 years, so get to Amsterdam if you can

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Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum hosts blockbuster Vermeer exhibition

A blockbuster exhibition at the Netherlands’ national museum of art and history is bringing together 28 works by 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer

The Independent UK

Largest Ever Exhibition of Vermeer Paintings to Open in Amsterdam

Twenty-eight paintings by Johannes Vermeer go on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this week, the largest ever exhibition of works of the 17th-century Dutch master, known for his expertise at rendering light and intimate household scenes. The show gathers half the works that Vermeer, who died aged 43 and…

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Vermeer will never look the same after Amsterdam exhibition

Connections, reflections, vibrations between his paintings will shine at the Rijksmuseum as never before

The Guardian - UK

‘Chance of a lifetime’ Vermeer exhibition to open in Amsterdam

Rare exhibition assembles 28 paintings by enigmatic Dutch master in one place

The Guardian - UK

Rail and sail: a month-by-month guide to no-fly travel ideas in 2023

Visit the Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam, spot puffins in Pembrokeshire or bag some Spanish peaks – and not an airport in sight

The Guardian - UK

The best art and design shows to visit in 2023

Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead

The Guardian - UK

Talented artist recreates masterpieces by Van Gogh and Banksy using a typewriter

James Cook recently completed a series of seven typewritten pieces of art, based on famous paintings and portraits of artists including Leonardo da Vinci and Johannes Vermeer

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Eco-activist attacks on museum artwork ask us to figure out what we value

In the last few weeks climate change activists have perpetrated various acts of reversible vandalism against famous works of art in public galleries.

Reuters

Climate activists who targeted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' sentenced to prison

Two Belgian climate change activists who last week targeted the famous Johannes Vermeer painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" have been sentenced to two months in prison by the Dutch court, of which one month was suspended.

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Art world appalled by attacks on paintings

PARIS: Art world professionals have slammed recent attacks on famous paintings by climate protesters as "counterproductive" and dangerous acts of vandalism.

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Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Back on Display

Johannes Vermeer's “Girl with a Pearl Earring” went back on display at the Netherlands' Mauritshuis museum Friday, a day after climate activists targeted the 17th-century masterpiece. “We are incredibly grateful that ‘The Girl’ remained undamaged and is back in her familiar place so quickly,” the museum's director, Martine Gosselink, said…

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Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' back on display

Johannes Vermeer’s iconic “Girl with a Pearl Earring” has gone back on display at the Mauritshuis museum, a day after climate activists targeted the 17th-century masterpiece

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Soup on a Van Gogh, mashed potatoes on a Monet: Why are activists throwing food on priceless art?

Centuries-old paintings have been targeted by environmentalists as a way of drawing attention to their cause, with Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring joining the soupy ranks.

France 24

‘More and more desperate measures’: Climate protesters target another priceless artwork

A climate activist glued his head to the glass protecting Johannes Vermeer's world-famous painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague on Thursday while a second glued his hand to the panel holding the work.

Evening Standard

Just Stop Oil protester tries to glue face to Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

A Just Stop Oil protester has attempted to glue his face to Vermeer’s priceless painting Girl with a Pearl Earring in a Dutch museum.

Reuters

Activist glues his head to 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' painting in The Hague

A climate activist glued his head to glass covering the world-famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring" painting at a museum in The Hague on Thursday, though the artwork was not damaged, gallery staff said.

The Guardian - UK

A ‘wrong’ family moment that’s full of truth … Jessica Todd Harper’s best photograph

‘I like the fact that this isn’t perfectly arranged. There’s the masking tape behind the eggs, the streamer hanging off the flowers, my son’s bright socks – all these elements preserve the veracity of the scene’

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Art researchers discover one of Dutch artist Vermeer's paintings is not actually his

A team of curators, conservators and scientists from the National Gallery of Art say Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Flute was actually painted by someone else.

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