The Latest Breaking News from Johannes Vermeer

Climate activists who targeted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' sentenced to prison

Two Belgian climate change activists who last week targeted the famous Johannes Vermeer painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" have been sentenced to two months in prison by the Dutch court, of which one month was suspended.

Reuters · Nov 2, 2022

Art world appalled by attacks on paintings

PARIS: Art world professionals have slammed recent attacks on famous paintings by climate protesters as "counterproductive" and dangerous acts of vandalism.

Bangkok Post · Oct 29, 2022

Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Back on Display

Johannes Vermeer's “Girl with a Pearl Earring” went back on display at the Netherlands' Mauritshuis museum Friday, a day after climate activists targeted the 17th-century masterpiece. “We are incredibly grateful that ‘The Girl’ remained undamaged and is back in her familiar place so quickly,” the museum's director, Martine Gosselink, said…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 28, 2022

Activist glues his head to 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' painting in The Hague

A climate activist glued his head to glass covering the world-famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring" painting at a museum in The Hague on Thursday, though the artwork was not damaged, gallery staff said.

Reuters · Oct 27, 2022

A ‘wrong’ family moment that’s full of truth … Jessica Todd Harper’s best photograph

‘I like the fact that this isn’t perfectly arranged. There’s the masking tape behind the eggs, the streamer hanging off the flowers, my son’s bright socks – all these elements preserve the veracity of the scene’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 12, 2022

Art researchers discover one of Dutch artist Vermeer's paintings is not actually his

A team of curators, conservators and scientists from the National Gallery of Art say Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Flute was actually painted by someone else.

WEKU · Oct 8, 2022

AI art is everywhere right now. Even experts don't know what it will mean

An art prize at the Colorado State Fair was awarded last month to a work that – unbeknown to the judges – was generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) system.

The Conversation · Sep 13, 2022

Vermeer exhibit to unite Milkmaid, Girl with a Pearl Earring

The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum will unite two iconic paintings from Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer early next year — The Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Milkmaid

The Independent UK · Sep 8, 2022