New York art dealer charged with stealing $88 million Mar 27, 2009
Mr. Salander's gallery displayed paintings as different as English landscapes by John Constable and modernistic scenes by Robert De Niro Sr., the actor's father. The gallery boasted that The Robb Report, the glossy lifestyle guide for the rich, had cited it as the best gallery in the world in 2003. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Google's pictures of UK go live Mar 20, 2009
Among Google's partners in the venture is Tate, who have worked with Google to integrate precise locations in the UK associated with artworks by JMW Turner and John Constable, which can then be viewed alongside their real-world locations. Other partners have selected a gallery of images to showcase the UK's attractions. (BBC News)
"New" portraits by John Constable discovered Mar 5, 2009
"New" portraits by John Constable discovered ... "New" portraits by John Constable discovered ... The curators of a new exhibition on John Constable say they have unearthed two works that were previously wrongly attributed but are in fact portraits of his parents by the British landscapist. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Landscape painting shaped the direction of art for a century, then all but vanished. What happened? Mar 1, 2009
Turner's pale and radiant scenes changed the way artists painted light; his main rival, John Constable, was similarly influential with his moody evocations of shifting weather. The French painters who followed - Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Degas - successively pushed the boundaries of artistic innovation, and created landscapes that still count today among the great works of art, bridging both serious and popular tastes. (Boston Globe)
