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Exterior of the Detroit Institute of Arts, photographed in July 2018. The museum, which is currently displaying Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The Novel Reader’ as part of an exhibition that closes Jan. 22, has asked a court not to pull it into a dispute over the ownership of the work. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Michael Barera. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Museum seeks dismissal of lawsuit over van Gogh painting

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Exterior of the Detroit Institute of Arts, photographed in July 2018. The museum, which is currently displaying Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The Novel Reader’ as part of an exhibition that closes Jan. 22, has asked a court not to pull it into a dispute over the ownership of the work. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Michael Barera. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Exterior of the Detroit Institute of Arts, photographed in July 2018. The museum, which is currently displaying Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The Novel Reader’ as part of an exhibition that closes Jan. 22, has asked a court not to pull it into a dispute regarding who owns the work. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Michael Barera. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

DETROIT (AP) – A Detroit museum displaying a 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh as part of a showing of 80 of his works said it shouldn’t be pulled into a dispute over ownership of the multimillion-dollar artwork.

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Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Novel Reader,’ aka ‘The Reading Lady,’ which he painted in Arles, France November 1888. On Jan. 11, a judge ruled that the Detroit Institute of Arts, which is displaying the painting in a current Van Gogh exhibit, must retain it after the show closes on Jan. 22. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, which considers it to be in the public domain in the United States.

Judge tells Detroit museum: Don’t move van Gogh painting

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Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Novel Reader,’ aka ‘The Reading Lady,’ which he painted in Arles, France November 1888. On Jan. 11, a judge ruled that the Detroit Institute of Arts, which is displaying the painting in a current Van Gogh exhibit, must retain it after the show closes on Jan. 22. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, which considers it to be in the public domain in the United States.

Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The Novel Reader,’ aka ‘The Reading Lady,’ which he painted in Arles, France in November 1888. On Jan. 11, a judge ruled that the Detroit Institute of Arts, which is displaying the painting in a current exhibit, must retain it after the show closes on Jan. 22. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, which considers it to be in the public domain in the United States.

DETROIT (AP) – On Jan. 11, a judge ordered a Detroit museum to hold onto an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh in response to a lawsuit by its owner, who claims it has been missing for nearly six years. The painting, titled The Novel Reader or The Reading Lady, is part of a rare van Gogh exhibit, which ends Jan. 22 at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers,’ an August 1888 oil on canvas displayed in room 43 of the National Gallery, London. On October 14, climate change activists who have been targeting iconic works of art to draw attention to their cause dumped two cans of tomato soup onto the painting. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of the National Gallery, London. The work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927.

Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’

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Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers,’ an August 1888 oil on canvas displayed in room 43 of the National Gallery, London. On October 14, climate change activists who have been targeting iconic works of art to draw attention to their cause dumped two cans of tomato soup onto the painting. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of the National Gallery, London. The work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927.

Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers,’ an August 1888 oil on canvas displayed in room 43 of the National Gallery, London. On October 14, climate change activists who have been targeting iconic works of art to draw attention to their cause dumped two cans of tomato soup onto the painting. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons, photo credit the National Gallery, London. According to Wikimedia Commons, the work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927.

LONDON (AP) – Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in London’s National Gallery on October 14 to protest fossil fuel extraction.

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X-ray image of the newly rediscovered Van Gogh self-portrait. Courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland

Van Gogh self-portrait found hidden behind another painting

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Left, Van Gogh’s ‘Head of a Peasant Woman,’ Right, the X-ray image of the newly rediscovered Van Gogh self-portrait that lies beneath it. Courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland

Left: Van Gogh’s ‘Head of a Peasant Woman,’ Right: the X-ray image of the newly rediscovered Van Gogh self-portrait that lies beneath it. Courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland

LONDON (AP) – A previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered behind another of the artist’s paintings, the National Galleries of Scotland said July 14. The self-portrait was found on the back of Van Gogh’s Head of a Peasant Woman when experts at the Edinburgh gallery took an X-ray of the canvas ahead of an upcoming exhibition.

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‘View of the Sea at Scheveningen,’ an 1882 Van Gogh painting that was one of two stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002. An alleged drug trafficker from Italy who is suspected of purchasing the work on the black market was recently arrested in Dubai. Public domain image of the painting courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Alleged mobster linked to Van Goghs is held in Dubai

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‘View of the Sea at Scheveningen,’ an 1882 Van Gogh painting that was one of two stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002. An alleged drug trafficker from Italy who is suspected of purchasing the work on the black market was recently arrested in Dubai. Public domain image of the painting courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

‘View of the Sea at Scheveningen,’ an 1882 Van Gogh painting that was one of two stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002. An alleged drug trafficker from Italy who is suspected of purchasing the work on the black market was recently arrested in Dubai. Public domain image of the painting courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

ROME (AP) – One of Italy’s most wanted men, an alleged top drug trafficker suspected of having bought two stolen Van Gogh paintings on the black market, has been arrested in Dubai, Naples-based police said August 19.

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Dutch police make arrest in thefts of Van Gogh, Hals works

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Van Gogh's ‘The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884’, which was stolen from a museum in the Netherlands in March 2020.

Van Gogh’s ‘The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884,’ which was stolen from a museum in the Netherlands in March 2020. Public domain image

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch police arrested a suspect Tuesday in the theft last year of two valuable paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from different museums, a spokeswoman said. The paintings, however, remain missing.

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