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...Botero says. "They would come over after dinner. I was broke." Talk about a reversal of fortune. Botero is now one of the world's richest and most successful artists. This week, a major retrospective, covering merely the last 15 of his 56 years' work, opens in Rome's Palazzo Venezia, showcasing 170 paintings, drawings and sculptures. The exhibition moves to the Würth Museum in Künzelsau, north of Stuttgart, Germany, in October and to Athens next summer, before heading to the U.S. in late 2006. The exhibition is sure to delight the many devotees of Botero...
...hometown of Città di Castello in the foothills of central Italy's Apennine mountain range. But today, the town of Città di Castello - and part of Italy's art establishment - is in turmoil, because a large cache of Burri's work is missing. The 15th century palazzo that houses much of his output had been expecting a shipment of 30 more Burri works, kept at the artist's country cottage in the south of France. But the works have disappeared, Time has learned. Italian police believe the art was stolen and smuggled out of Europe...
...warfare to photojournalists. Picasso's Guernica became the most lasting image of the Spanish Civil War, yet there is no great art depicting the Vietnam War, he says--or, thus far, the war in Iraq. Botero's paintings and charcoal drawings will be unveiled in June at Rome's Palazzo Venezia, as part of a retrospective of his work, which will then travel to Germany, Greece and the U.S. But as of now, the Abu Ghraib series will not be part of the U.S. exhibition because it was organized before the works were created. And they will never...
...masterpiece Guernica became the most lasting image of the Spanish Civil War, for example, yet there is no great art depicting the Vietnam War, he says - or, until now, the war in Iraq. Botero's paintings and charcoal drawings will be unveiled in June at Rome's Palazzo Venezia, as part of a retrospective of his work, which will then travel to Germany, Greece and the U.S. But so far, the Abu Ghraib series is not planned to be part of the U.S. exhibition. And the paintings will never go on sale, Botero says. "I want them as a testimonial...
...beauty of the Fogg, in all of its Italian palazzo-styled glory, has impressed patrons almost as much as the artwork itself, but the temperature issue proves difficult to resolve as renovations commence. For now, Benefield says that the museum curators will continue to carefully monitor the building and keep temperatures as constant as possible...