When Overlooked Art Turns Celebrity

“The Wine of St. Martin’s Day,” once unappreciated in a dark corridor, is now attributedto Pieter Bruegel the Elder and is being restored by the Prado.

From the New York Times

MADRID — The painting was beautiful, just not admired. Then suddenly, after more than four centuries, it was. It acquired a pedigree. The art hadn’t changed, but its stature had.

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The Restoration of a Velázquez

After technical studies and a yearlong restoration, curators and conservators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art now believe that a full-length portrait of Philip IV that has been in the Met's collection since 1914 is by Velázquez and not his workshop. The attribution reverses a finding made in 1973 when museum officials downgraded this portrait, along with 299 other old master paintings, saying they were either by the artist's workshop or a follower.

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New Rule on Cargo Is Shaking Art World

Employees of Stebich Ridder International, an

art-shipping company, preparing a crate

From The New York Times, Art & Design
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: February 12, 2010

An excerpt: 

Airline employees could open carefully crated works of art to search them the way checked baggage is sometimes searched now...

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