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Stockholm: Wolfgang Tillmans at Moderna Museet, through January 20, 2013

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

Wolfgang Tillmans, Exhibition View, via Moderna Museet Stockholm

20 years of photographic works by Wolfgang Tillmans, the first photographer ever to win the Turner Prize, are currently on view at Moderna Museet, comprising his first major show in Sweden.

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Stolen Matisse Painting Recovered in Essex, England

Monday, January 7th, 2013

Henri Matisse’s Le Jardin, which has been missing for over 20 years and is currently valued at $1 million, has been recovered from a dealer in Essex. The oil painting was stolen from Stockholm’s Museum of Modern Art in 1987, and its journey from Stockholm to Essex remains somewhat of a mystery.  “Stolen artworks that are recognisable change hands often so there is no knowing where it has been in the intervening two decades.”  Says Christopher A. Marinello, executive director and general counsel at the Art Loss Register (more…)