Rene Burri Iconic 20th Century Photographer Dies Age 81

Rene Burri Iconic 20th Century Photographer Dies Age 81

The International news photographer Rene Burri has died age 81. Burri studied at the School of Applied Arts in his native city of Zurich, Switzerland. From 1953 to 1955 and worked as a documentary film-maker. He began to use a Leica while doing his military service...

Nazi Loot To Be Returned By Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum

An intricate silver-gilt and enamel salt cellar is one of the 500 silverware items, believed to be worth in excess of £10 million, that was bequeathed by collector Michael Wellby – a former friend of Professor Timothy Wilson, the museum’s ‘Keeper of...

Banksy Not Arrested – Internet Duped By American Site

The American satire website National Report had claimed in a news piece that the man behind the pseudonym was 35-year-old Paul Horner, from Liverpool. The story was accompanied by a mug shot and went on to claim that Banksy was arrested on charges of “vandalism,...

Gurlitt Art Trove For Kunstmuseum Bern

Kunstmuseum Bern (Museum of Fine Arts Bern), Switzerland has accepted the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt’s 1,300 works that has been bequeathed to the museum by German collector, according to a report in the Swiss newspaper Sonntagszeitung. The report comes...