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• Case of Venetian masterpiece looted by Nazis closed 80 years on

  27-05-2017 23:52
  
  Stolen Michele Marieschi painting bought in good faith by British man 60 years ago expected to fetch more than £500,000An 18th-century Italian masterpiece is to be auctioned by Sotheby’s in London almost 80 years after it was looted by the Nazis. The magnificent Venetian view, painted by Michele Marieschi in 1739, belonged to a Viennese Jewish family who fled Austria in 1938 following Nazi Germany’s annexation of the country.Heinrich and Anna Maria Graf escaped to America with
  
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• A homage to neon signs – in pictures

  27-05-2017 18:00
  
  For Terry Thompson, neon signs are an obsession. Over the past 16 years, the San Francisco-based artist has driven all over the States looking for interesting signs, immortalising them in a series of oil paintings inspired by Edward Hopper and Ed Ruscha. “To me, old signs are handmade sculptures,” he says. “The neon is hand-bent by artisans, and they’re often hand-painted. Some have been around since the 1930s.” Not everyone shares his enthusiasm. “I’ve
  
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• 'I wasn’t cock-a-hoop that I’d fooled the experts': Britain's master forger tells all

  27-05-2017 10:00
  
  Shaun Greenhalgh has turned his hand to everyone from Leonardo da Vinci to Lowry. He’s been to prison, but has never revealed the whole picture. Until nowIn 2010, shortly after his release from prison, Shaun Greenhalgh walked into his parents’ house in Bromley Cross to find yet another fat package waiting for him on the dresser. Unsolicited parcels arrived often. They always bore a London postmark, but never a sender’s name; they always contained an art book.On this occasion, G
  
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• The Physical Brain Versus Consciousness

  27-05-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At its most general, the hard problem of consciousness is the expression of a familiar kind of puzzlement or mental cramp. We know that the brain is causally responsible, in some way or another, for consciousness – but we remain utterly baffled as to how its fatty, yoghurty matter could be up to the task. The puzzlement is not restricted to philosophers, neuroscientists or those who know a lot about the brain."
  
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