"Cold, dust and darkness — the daily rituals that unleashed Picasso"

https://archive.is/pE5Hb 

"Thieves steal more than 1,000 items from Oakland museum in ‘brazen’ heist "| US crime | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/heist-oakland-museum-native-american-artifacts 

"The Oakland police department said in a statement on Wednesday that on 15 October, just before 3.30am, individuals broke into the facility and stole hundreds of items from the collection. The missing pieces included artifacts such as Native American baskets, ivory carvings and daguerreotypes, as well as laptops..."

"Rare Picasso portrait of muse Dora Maar sells for 32 million euros at auction" | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/picasso-auction-dora-maar-ded858e6f38a8c807553e3a4d522619f 

"

Painted in July 1943, "Bust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat (Dora Maar)" depicts Maar in a brightly colored floral hat. Maar, an artist and photographer herself, had been Picasso's partner and muse for about seven years, and the relationship was coming to a painful close. The work was purchased in 1944 and had not been on the market since, remaining in the family collection..."

"France’s Diderot museum ROBBED just days after brazen Louvre heist –" NaturalNews.com

https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-10-24-diderot-museum-robbed-days-after-louvre-heist.html 

"

Thieves stole nearly 2,000 gold and silver coins from the Denis Diderot House of Enlightenment in Langres (Oct. 20), following a €88 million Louvre jewelry heist (Oct. 19) and other recent robberies, raising concerns about France's ability to protect its cultural heritage.

The Langres theft was premeditated, with thieves selectively taking valuables while leaving other artifacts untouched. The Louvre robbery involved masked thieves scaling the museum's façade with a truck-mounted ladder before smashing cases and escaping on scooters..."

"Harper Lee's newly found stories show her 'genius', say her family

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevzr3n02x2o 

executed in 7 minutes "Thieves steal jewels with 'inestimable' value from Louvre museum" Napoleon's jewels

"PARIS and LONDON -- Several people disguised as construction workers broke into the world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday, cracking open display cases and stealing jewelry that once belonged to Emperor Napoleon and his wife, officials said.

At least nine pieces of jewelry of "inestimable heritage and historical value" were taken in the brazen heist before the thieves made their getaway on motorcycles, two ministers said..."

https://share.newsbreak.com/fiy3dlbz 

oops, kid scratches $56 million painting

https://people.com/child-damages-rothko-painting-worth-56-million-dollars-museum-11723082

"3 Are Arrested in Theft of Gold Helmet From Dutch Museum - "

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/europe/art-heist-cotofenesti-arrests.html 

"LA's Getty Center's art safeguarded as Palisades fire rages"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/las-getty-centers-art-safeguarded-204018478.html 

The Getty may face the ultimate test 🔥

https://www.google.com/search?q=getty+%2C+fire&client=ms-opera-mini-android&channel=new 

"Braced with fire defenses, Getty art center faces LA flames "

https://www.yahoo.com/news/braced-fire-defenses-getty-art-184226452.html 

"We are really built like a beautiful fortress, and everything inside is quite safe," she told AFP at the time ..."

Holy cow 🐮 "A junk dealer found a painting in a basement. Experts say it’s an original Picasso | " CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/02/style/picasso-painting-junk-dealer-italy-scli-intl/index.html 

Portrait of a Girl "From attic to auction: A Rembrandt painting sells for $1.4M in Maine''

https://www.aol.com/attic-auction-rembrandt-painting-sells-144646816.html 

re Toledo Art Museum

https://maps.app.goo.gl/jN4P7t9x7aDVmq2Z9 

Nice art museum, except upon entry the African-American security guard growled at me twice " CAN I HELP YOU. CAN I HELP YOU". It was NOT in a nice tone. I finally said, "I'm going into the art museum like everybody else." I was also looking to refill my water bottle. Whatever the case may be if he wanted to help me he should say it in a nice tone, not a menacing mean tone. 

🙏Art G2G, 4.23.24, & mental health 4.25.24

Clicker: 1026

Alexander Nemerov - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nemerov 

"Spain's Prado Museum to update painting descriptions that people might find 'offensive' | "

https://humanevents.com/2024/01/11/spains-prado-museum-to-update-painting-descriptions-that-people-might-find-offensive 

Merry Christmas 2023 🙏✝️😇🎄🎁"Bruegel’s White Christmas: The Census at Bethlehem - "

https://www.artinsociety.com/bruegelrsquos-white-christmas-the-census-at-bethlehem.html 

A REAL Lord of Flies story: without the fighting, & with a happy ending 👍

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

"The Mystery of the Disappearing van Gogh"

https://dnyuz.com/2023/05/29/the-mystery-of-the-disappearing-van-gogh/

Rubbish . Stupid students 😡👎 "Christ on the Water’ Covered up by Merchant Marine Academy "

"Christ on the Water' Painting Honoring 9,521 Lost Mariners Covered up by Merchant Marine Academy Because of 18 Students and a Baseless Complaint"

https://canadafreepress.com/article/christ-on-the-water-painting-honoring-9521-lost-mariners-covered-up-by-merchant-marine-academy-because-of-18-students-and-a-baseless-complaint

re Benton Museum of Art Claremont Colleges- 👎

1st time there: they watch you too much, like you're a potential shoplifter 👎. I visit museums around the country & world & have a website dedicated to art & museums. The best museums have a casual atmosphere even though they have good security. 

There's nothing WORSE than having a person literally follow you from room to room. Use a Freakin Surveillance Camera and sit in a room with big screens to surveil the patrons. 

Otherwise leave them/us alone to enjoy. If 99.9 % of patrons DON'T do anything wrong, seems wrong to watch them as if their potential shoplifters 99%of the time.

 We ALL know the golden rule of museums: Don't Touch Anything Anywhere at Anytime 

re Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Don't Tell me to Have a Nice Day

Its ok. Kind of Small. And I wish they had an area where you didn't feel you were being watched all the time. I know they need to make sure nobody touches anything but is that REALLY a problem. We've been trained like monkeys since kindergarten to KNOW that the #1 rule at museums is "DON'T TOUCH". 

I like museums where its more relaxed so i DON'T feel like an animal in the zoo. DON'T worry. We will NOT TOUCH anything. 

Here's what u do: u also have cameras 📹 watching our every move. So u have 1 person monitoring the screens. If he/she sees a character who is acting like a rebel, you send an employee into that area . Otherwise u give people free reign. 

Art is supposed to liberate us, right ? And the experience at the art museum should be liberating, NOT a task to complete & then feel glad that you're getting out of there.  

AND by the way there's nothing WORSE than somebody saying "Thanks for coming. Have a nice day" in an apathetic tone as you leave . I  DON'T believe u truly care if i have a 'nice day' . u DON'T even know me & probably WOULDN'T even be willing to help me if u saw me on the street. 

So flush your  meaningless cliches down the toilet 🚽 💩. DON'T dump them on us 🚫 👎.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZTvKE2cdAnWW2WHy5

"Egypt: U.S. Authorities Seize 27 Antiquities From Metropolitan Arts Museum - "

https://allafrica.com/stories/202209090367.html 

original classic video: Norton Simon Museum Pasadena CA

https://youtu.be/wpLnEZ6Rz0w

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#Repent&BeBaptized !                        #acceptChrist2bSaved2day !

5/2/22 Announcement : I've added a NEW VIEWING FORMAT for your convenience (same photos, different format)

5/2/22 

Announcement :

 I've added a

 NEW VIEWING

 FORMAT

 for your convenience 

(same photos, 

different format) 

see

 https://artcam4u.blogspot.com/

Masterworks - Learn to Invest in Fine Art

https://www.masterworks.io/m/homepage?utm_medium=platform&utm_source=taboola&utm_campaign=tab__directlp_banksyexpandedwhitelist_mobile&utm_content=moss_pencil&tblci=GiBumypETDZbhAaqNZBI98MExjP0RbL0IUpg4NcppGI8DCCz304o2_nKjK_Gk4GOAQ#tblciGiBumypETDZbhAaqNZBI98MExjP0RbL0IUpg4NcppGI8DCCz304o2_nKjK_Gk4GOAQ 

Hello Art Lovers. If you follow our Art Blog, we have exciting news for you !

We have added an additional website with only images (in a different format)

from the various art museums etc. These can be viewed at 

https://AmericanMuseumsAndArt.blogspot.com/

"'Bored' museum guard doodles on $1.4M painting on his first day on the job -" TheBlaze

"A "bored" museum security guard in Russia damaged a high-priced painting by doodling eyes on its blank faces during his first day on the job, the Guardian reported.."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/bored-security-guard-doodles-on-painting?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated 

"Anne Rice, who breathed new life into vampires, dies at 80"

https://www.boston.com/culture/books/2021/12/12/anne-rice-who-breathed-new-life-into-vampires-dies-at-80/ 

Fwd: KINGDOM OF BLOG

KINGDOM OF BLOG

 for the

 KINGDOM of GOD 

Bizarre Synchronicities "The Baron Trump Novels: The Last President…Marked TRUE By Snopes! -"

https://proudamerican.site/the-baron-trump-novels-the-last-presidentmarked-true-by-snopes/ 

photos: RALEIGH ART MUSEUM, NC

RALEIGH

 ART MUSEUM,

 NC 

photos: RINGLING ART MUSEUM

RINGLING ART

MUSEUM 

photos, DALLAS ART MUSEUM

DALLAS

 ART 

MUSEUM 

photos, ART MUSEUM, JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA

ART MUSEUM, 

JACKSONVILLE, 

FLORIDA

"Picasso artworks auctioned for combined $109M in Las Vegas "- ABC News

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/picasso-artworks-auctioned-combined-109m-las-vegas-80757814 

"Gary Paulsen, Author of Young-Adult Adventures, Dies at 82 "

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/books/gary-paulsen-dead.html 

"Danish artist makes off with pile of cash intended to be art | "

https://www.foxbusiness.com/luxury/danish-artist-makes-off-with-pile-of-cash-intended-to-be-art 

'The amazing painting that saved Bill Murray from committing suicide - "

http://opr.news/63c90bf2210804en_us?link=1&client=mini 

"How Hauser & Wirth Is Elevating Menorca’s Arts and Culture Scene – "

https://robbreport.com/travel/destinations/hauser-wirth-brings-art-menorca-1234625216/ 

This is also #HunterBiden's next project "An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing | "

This is also #HunterBiden's next project "An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an 'Invisible Sculpture' for $18,300. It's Made Literally of Nothing | "

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/italian-artist-auctioned-off-invisible-sculpture-18300-literally-made-nothing-1976181 

"Picasso painting stolen from Greece's National Gallery is found hidden in a ravine nine years later | "

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9736805/Picasso-painting-stolen-Greeces-National-Gallery-hidden-ravine-nine-years-later.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline 

"experts confirm edvard munch wrote a secret message on the scream...penned in pencil on the top left-hand ... "

"experts confirm edvard munch wrote a secret message on the scream...penned in pencil on the top left-hand corner of the painting, the inscription reads 'can only have been painted by a madman.' the inscription was added following the completion of the painting, adding to the mystery of it and leading curators to wonder if it was an act of vandalism or written by munch himself. "

https://www.designboom.com/art/edvard-munch-the-scream-secret-message-confirmed-02-22-2021/?utm_source=designboom+daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=experts+confirm+edvard+munch+wrote+a+secret+message+on+the+scream 

the louvre just made its entire art collection available online for free

https://www.designboom.com/art/the-louvre-art-collection-available-online-free-03-29-2021/?utm_source=designboom+daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the+louvre+just+made+its+entire+art+collection+available+online+for+free 

"Serious Collectors Only: Artist Sells 'Invisible' Sculpture for Nearly $20,000 " – RedState

https://redstate.com/alexparker/2021/06/06/serious-collectors-only-artist-sells-invisible-sculpture-for-nearly-20000-n392026 

"Van Gogh Art Exhibit Gives Guests Immersive Experience in NYC | "

https://www.oann.com/van-gogh-art-exhibit-gives-guests-immersive-experience-in-nyc/ 

"Beloved children's book author and artist Eric Carle dies at 91"

https://www.theblaze.com/news/beloved-childrens-book-author-and-artist-eric-carle-dies-at-91

"The Exceptional Frick Collection Has A Captivating, Temporary New Home"

https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/06/the-exceptional-frick-collection-has-a-captivating-temporary-new-home/ 

"The Louvre’s collections are online so I curated some good paintings for you. Finally my art degree is worth something - "

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/29/22357261/louvre-museum-art-collections-online-animal-paintings

"Beverly Cleary obituary: “Ramona” series author dies at 104 – "

https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/beverly-cleary-1916-2021-award-winning-ramona-series-author/ 

"Getty Center and Villa Preparing to Reopen " maybe mid-April 2021

http://news.getty.edu/getty-center-and-villa-preparing-to-reopen.htm 

"NYC Met Museum cuts 353 staff as it projects a loss of more than $150 million "

 trib.al/M26reTR

Wow "A Clue to Van Gogh’s Final Days Is Found in His Last Painting – "

"Tree Roots" was painted on the Rue Daubigny, a main road through Auvers-sur-Oise, which is about 20 miles north of Paris, Mr. van der Veen found. The tangled, gnarled tree roots and stumps can still be seen in the slope of a hill there today, just 500 feet from the Auberge Ravoux, where van Gogh spent the last 70 days of his life..."

https://dnyuz.com/2020/07/28/a-clue-to-van-goghs-final-days-is-found-in-his-last-painting/ 

"How Thieves Hacked $3 Million From a London Art Gallery Sale"

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-perfect-art-heist/?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-businessweek&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=businessweek&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social 

"Ken Griffin buys Jean-Michel Basquiat painting for more than $100 million "

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/finance-banking/ken-griffin-buys-painting-more-100-million 

2) To the GREATER Tahoe/Reno area. I am a prayer warrior & passed thru & PRAYED 1000 PRAYERS for y'all & #coronavirus.

2) To the GREATER Tahoe/Reno area. I am a prayer warrior & passed thru & PRAYED 1000 PRAYERS for y'all & #coronavirus. I am prayerfully traveling the USA 🇺🇸 until we #KillTheVirus 🔪 ! #repentAndBeBaptized ❤ ✝ 🙏#AmeriPrayer2020  

Druid Heights - : I've been there. You can walk around it (near Muir Woods)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid_Heights 

near MUIR WOODS (they don't advertise it). But you can get info with a google search

https://goo.gl/maps/uNagHDEoePLCDY6N9

"Obituary: Michael McClure, legendary beat poet, dies at 87 - "

https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/michael-mcclure-1932-2020-legendary-beat-poet/ 

re READING MOBY DICK DURING PANDEMIC "The Rare Virtue of Interior Spaciousness .. The book is about democracy, God, revenge, friendship, boats, human nature, .

READING MOBY DICK    "The Rare Virtue of Interior Spaciousness .. The book is about democracy, God, revenge, friendship, boats, human nature, oils, and whaling; and those thousands of words of detail about whaling read like a great work of New Journalism. Melville's four-year stint on such vessels, beginning in 1841, gave him the knowledge that allowed for such realism..."

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/05/18/the-rare-virtue-of-interior-spaciousness/ 

"Beloved author Beverly Cleary celebrates her 104th birthday 📚"

 https://twitter.com/i/events/1249347243317923842 

The LOUVRE IS CLOSED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS "France closes the Louvre as virus spreads to new fronts...The Louvre, home ...

The LOUVRE IS CLOSED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS  "France closes the Louvre as virus spreads to new fronts...The Louvre, home of the "Mona Lisa" and other priceless artworks, closed after workers expressed fear of being contaminated by the stream of visitors from around the world. "

https://apnews.com/fd006734bacfb34a9dba966694359e5f 

"Clive Cussler, million-selling adventure writer, dies at 88 - "

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/clive-cussler-adventure-novelist-dies-88-arizona-69237023 

"Leonardo show smashes Louvre's all-time record "

https://news.yahoo.com/leonardo-show-smashes-louvres-time-record-140224211.html 

Calder on exhibit at Westmont College Art Museum

"First of its kind Vincent van Gogh exhibition coming only to Michigan - "

https://www.mlive.com/life/2020/01/first-of-its-kind-vincent-van-gogh-exhibition-coming-only-to-michigan.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=grandrapidspress_sf 

"'Painted Lady' on San Francisco's Famed 'Postcard Row' Hits Market for $2.75M - "

https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Painted-Lady-on-San-Francisco-s-Famed-Postcard-14989330.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter 

Huntington library " gains hundreds of presidential documents ..- Among the papers are numerous letters between the nation’s second and sixth presidents, John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams. Other papers include letters from first ladies Dolley Madison and Abigail Adams."

"California library gains hundreds of presidential documents ..- Among the papers are numerous letters between the nation's second and sixth presidents, John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams. Other papers include letters from first ladies Dolley Madison and Abigail Adams."

https://www.breitbart.com/news/california-library-gains-hundreds-of-presidential-documents/ 

Sounds cool 👍 "Finding God Inside MoMA’s New Exhibition Of Home Movies "

https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/04/finding-god-inside-momas-new-exhibition-of-home-movies/

LOTS OF BUZZ ABOUT THIS BOOK "Awful Beautiful Life " | Katherine Reay

https://katherinereay.com/books/awful-beautiful-life/

A TREASURE TROVE "Picassos in the Garage? Artist’s Handyman Is Convicted of Hiding Stolen Works. "

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/picassos-in-the-garage-artists-handyman-is-convicted-of-hiding-stolen-works/ar-BBXdso4

"Art is doxology - "

https://www.christianpost.com/voice/art-is-doxology.html

"Is the $450m Salvator Mundi really on a Saudi yacht? "

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/is-the-usd450m-salvator-mundi-really-on-a-yacht

I was there ! "The Fruits of Manet's Labor " | Getty360 Calendar

"Art historian Marni Kessler, who just completed a book examining culinary themes in 19th-century French visual culture, focuses on Manet's poignant representations of fruit, which allowed him to reach back through memory to motifs that had occupied him across the span of his career..."

http://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_2908.html

John Walsh (art historian) - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walsh_(art_historian)

"Prince Charles is hit by a major counterfeit art scandal "

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7643225/Prince-Charles-hit-major-counterfeit-art-scandal.html

"13th century painting depicting Christ being mocked on way to cross, found in France, sold for $27M "

https://www.christianpost.com/news/13th-century-painting-depicting-christ-being-mocked-on-way-to-cross-found-in-france-sold-for-27m.html

photos 7/14/19 speed art museum , louisville KY

 

May the God who gives 

endurance and 

encouragement give 

you a spirit of unity 

among yourselves as you 

follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart 

and mouth you may glorify the God 

and Father of our 

Lord Jesus Christ. 

Romans 15:5-6