365 Days of Art: October 25 – Picasso is Born, Krasner and Pollock Marry,...
October 25, 1881 Picasso is born. Two fun facts about Picasso: his father was a drawing professor, and while most people think he couldn’t draw because of his focus on abstraction and Cubism, Picasso...
View Article365 Days of Art: October 8 – Serial Art Vandal Arrested After Attacking...
October 8, 1977 Serial art vandal Hans Bohlmann is arrested, after vandalizing four paintings, including two Rembrandts, the day before. Bohlmann is known for targeting faces in his attacks, which I’m...
View Article365 Days of Art: October 7 – Lover’s Death Inspires Hartley Portrait, Rothko...
October 7, 1914 Marsden Hartley’s lover, Karl von Freyburg, dies in World War I; his death inspires Hartley to paint Portrait of a German Officer. October 7, 2012 Art vandal Wlodzimierz Umaniec uses...
View Article365 Days of Art: October 6 – Archers Destroy Leonardo’s Clay Model, Velázquez...
October 6, 1499 Louis XII of France invades Milan, and allows his archers to shoot target practice at Leonardo’s 25-foot clay model for an equestrian statue. For shame! The Duke of Milan commissions...
View Article365 Days of Art: October 5 – Jury Acquits Arts Center of Obscenity Charges
October 5, 1990 A Cincinnati jury acquits the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and its director of misdemeanor obscenity charges, for displaying Robert Mapplethorpe’s exhibition, The Perfect Moment.
View Article365 Days of Art: October 1 – Nazi Radio Vilifies Monuments Men
October 1, 1943 Nazi radio announces: The US President of the European Monuments and Art Treasures Committee, an organization consisting of thieves and Jews, said in a statement to the Press that a...
View Article365 Days of Art: September 30 – Nazis Set Fire to Villa, Destroying...
September 30, 1943 Nazi soldiers set fire to a villa outside of Naples, which temporarily houses the contents of the Filangieri Museum and State Archives of Naples. In addition to 85,978 historical...
View Article365 Days of Art: September 27 – Munch Museum Celebrates Return of Damaged...
September 27, 2006 Munch’s The Scream and Madonna go on view in a special five-day exhibition to celebrate their return to the Munch Museum–damages and all–after being stolen by masked gunmen two years...
View Article365 Days of Art: September 24 – Barnes Foundation Announces Plans to Move
September 24, 2002 The Barnes Foundation, possibly the best collection of Post-Impressionist works in the world, announces a petition to move from Merion, Pennsylvania to Philadelphia. The need for a...
View Article365 Days of Art: September 22 – Leonardo Studies Birds, Michelangelo Seeks...
September 22, 1507 Leonardo makes studies of birds in flight. September 22, 1510 Exactly halfway through painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo departs Florence, where he’d taken a break to...
View Article365 Days of Art: September 15 – Gorky Marries; David Struck by Hammer
September 15, 1941 Driving back home to New York from an exhibition in San Francisco, Arshile Gorky and Mougouch (Agnes Magruder) are married in Nevada. September 15, 1991 A 47-year old art vandal...
View Article365 Days of Art: September 14 – Hitler Issues Orders to Commandeer the...
September 14, 1943 SS General Karl Wolff, Supreme Leader of All SS Troops and Police in Italy, receives the following instructions from Hitler: As soon as possible I want you and your troops to occupy...
View Article365 Days of Art: September 13 – Michelangelo Begins Carving, Childe Hassam...
September 13, 1501 About a month after signing the contract for his first commission, Michelangelo picks up his tools early in the morning and begins carving the statue of David. He will work on it for...
View Article365 Days of Art: September 8 – Ana Mendieta Falls to Her Death; Husband Carl...
September 8, 1985 Ana Mendieta dies at age 32, after falling from her 34th floor apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village; her husband, sculptor Carl Andre is charged with her murder. Though there are...
View Article365 Days of Art: September 7 – Apollinaire is Arrested for Theft of Mona Lisa
September 7, 1911 Seventeen days after the Mona Lisa is stolen without anyone noticing, police arrest the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. As a critic and surrealist, he’s suggested in the past that the...
View Article365 Days of Art: September 5 – Monet Paints Wife on Deathbed, Oldenburg...
September 5, 1879 Monet’s wife Camille dies of cancer at age 32, and he paints a portrait of her on her deathbed. While Monet’s portrait and correspondence seem to show real feeling over her death, he...
View Article365 Days of Art: September 4 – Thieves Steal 13 Paintings in Montreal
September 4, 1972 Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. It is the largest art theft in North America until the Boston Museum of Fine Arts robbery almost 20 years later. They...
View Article365 Days of Art: August 31 – Stolen Munch Paintings Recovered
August 31, 2006 Norwegian police announce the recovery of Munch’s The Scream and Madonna, which were stolen almost exactly two years prior, in a daylight raid. Neither the Chief of Police nor the...
View Article365 Days of Art: August 24 – Serial Art Attacker Strikes Rubens Portrait with...
August 24, 1977 Hans-Joachim Bohlmann, serial art attacker, damages the painting Archduke Albrecht by Rubens by assaulting it with acid. Still in the beginning of this career, he nevertheless starts...
View Article365 Days of Art: August 22 – The Scream is Stolen by Masked Men
August 22, 2004 Gun-wielding men in masks raid the Munch Museum in broad daylight and steal The Scream (one of several versions),as well as Munch’s Madonna. About seven months later, a suspect is...
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