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6. don't you love it?

Fri May 24, 2013, 04:36 PM

May 2013

did you know this already or did you research it? I had seen it but not til I decided to do this challenge did I actually research it further...interesting, isn't it?

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The Friday Afternoon Challenge’s latest headbanger! Today: Art in the News! [View all] CTyankee May 2013 OP

Well, I have no idea as usual, but they are wonderful! CaliforniaPeggy May 2013 #1

Yep, some fun stuff here. The news out of art world is always wild and wacky. CTyankee May 2013 #2

#3 = Inflatable Stonehenge mcranor May 2013 #3

name, place? CTyankee May 2013 #4

In Hong Kong, by Jeremy Deller, to promote a new museum pinboy3niner May 2013 #11

Yep it is the opening of Art Basel Hong Kong. CTyankee May 2013 #13

#5: Pinturicchio - The Resurrection pinboy3niner May 2013 #5

don't you love it? CTyankee May 2013 #6

I'd seen the original story when it ran and made a note of it... pinboy3niner May 2013 #7

Oh, you ARE a devil...or a genius... CTyankee May 2013 #8

#2 looks like John Paul II Kingofalldems May 2013 #9

Aahh...a few centuries off there... CTyankee May 2013 #10

#2: Celestine V, 13th-Century Pope pinboy3niner May 2013 #12

I knew once anyone googled pope+silver mask that it would pop right up but CTyankee May 2013 #16

Is that death mask/face cover thing made from mother-of-pearl? blogslut May 2013 #14

It was actually fashioned from silver by a local artist in Italy! CTyankee May 2013 #18

Ahhh, silver. Now, I see it. blogslut May 2013 #21

It DOES look opalescent! When I first saw it I was a bit bemused...my eyes are old, too! CTyankee May 2013 #24

#1: Giovanni Boldini - Portrait de Marthe de Florian pinboy3niner May 2013 #15

What is the story? CTyankee May 2013 #17

Found in a Paris apartment untouched for 70 years: pinboy3niner May 2013 #19

Marthe sounds like a helluva woman! I just love stories like this! CTyankee May 2013 #25

Boy -- you ARE an Art Detective! You're running the board! gateley May 2013 #20

On #6, I take it the crew of 4 was reduced to 3... pinboy3niner May 2013 #22

Bwahahahaha! Pinboy, I bow to your amazing art-detective abilities... countryjake May 2013 #42

#6 is Gerhard Richter's Domplatz, Mailand rusty fender May 2013 #23

wow, you are GOOD, rusty! It was distingushed as being the highest selling auction item CTyankee May 2013 #26

#1 is a portrait by Boldini Warpy May 2013 #27

Isn't it great? And it is of a woman who was Boldini's lover...I'd love to know the backstory CTyankee May 2013 #28

I know. Either she was so massively rich she could afford to forget Warpy May 2013 #29

I have to wonder if she was Jewish and simply had to just get out of Paris. CTyankee May 2013 #31

Anyone who had the means to leave, left. Warpy May 2013 #32

I wonder. Picasso stayed. Of course, we don't know what accommodations he made to the CTyankee May 2013 #34

We have only #4 to identify. I'll leave it open til tomorrow. But I am leaving for London CTyankee May 2013 #30

Have a great trip, CTyankee! pinboy3niner May 2013 #33

Oh, it's weird. I've already done a London challenge so what else...who knows...I have two CTyankee May 2013 #35

The one burning question that remains... pinboy3niner May 2013 #36

I'm talking a needed break from MJ and the restof the U.S. media! CTyankee May 2013 #38

#4: Antiquities smuggled from Syria to Lebanon (2 arrested) pinboy3niner May 2013 #37

That's odd. The big story on "Kneeling Attendant" in the New York Times said it was from CTyankee May 2013 #39

I'll trust your source before mine :) pinboy3niner May 2013 #40

wasn't that a great story in the NYT? You would think the Met would have enough money to have CTyankee May 2013 #41