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Seven paintings have been stolen from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, including works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Claude Monet potentially worth hundreds of millions. The theft at the Kunsthal museum is one of the largest in years in the Netherlands.

"Abstraktes Bild (809-4)", a painting by Gerhard Richter owned by British guitarist Eric Clapton has sold for £21.3 million ($34.19 million), a new record for the work of a living artist.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his death, BOZAR Brussels presents a major retrospective of 130 works by the Flemish expressionist Constant Permeke. An impressive selection of 130 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, including many key works, reveals every facet of Permeke’s oeuvre.

Through a series of masterworks by the Flemish Baroque painter Jacob Jordaens, selected from the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel in Germany, the exhibition ‘Jordaens and the Antique’ provides a never-before-seen vision of Jordaens's work from the vantage point of the classical tradition.

The first retrospective in France of the emblematic American Modernist painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is opening on Wednesday in the Grand Palais in Paris.

Vladimir Umanets, founder of the Yellowism movement, has claimed responsibility for defacing a valuable Seagram mural by Mark Rothko at the Tate Modern. He said his aim was not to destroy or deface it.

Since Saturday, De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam is exhibiting the religious and spiritual masterpiece ‘The Last Supper (pink)’ by Andy Warhol. It is the first time since 1987 that the over seven metre wide pink canvas, from the collection of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, is coming to Europe.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen announced one of the greatest discoveries in early drawing. A six centuries old drawing from the studio of Van Eyck has surfaced in the Netherlands and will be on show from 13 October in the exhibition ‘The Road to Van Eyck’.

From 29 September 2012 until 25 April 2013 the Van Gogh Museum will be temporarily hosted by the Hermitage Amsterdam with the presentation Vincent. The Van Gogh Museum in the Hermitage Amsterdam. During this period, the Van Gogh Museum will be undergoing a renovation.

The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage KIK commenced today the restoration work on the famous Ghent Alterpiece by Jan and Hubert Van Eyck 'the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb' in the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts MSK. The entire operation will take five years and is open to public.

Jeffrey Gundlach who had about $10 million in art stolen from his Santa Monica home two weeks ago, said all the works were recovered.

The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is starting its global campaign for the Grand Opening on 13 April 2013 with an international tour of one of its masterpieces 'Woman Reading a Letter' by Johannes Vermeer.

Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) is going back to the 60s. Back to the heyday of Pop Art. European Pop Art, to be more precise. More than 100 works of art are coming to Nijmegen from all over Europe, which together will give a complete picture of the Pop Art movement in Europe. For a period of only 4 months the 'Pop Art in Europe' exhibition, unique in the Netherlands and Europe, can be admired in Museum Het Valkhof.

The American art collector Jeffrey Gundlach has offered a $1.7m (£1m) reward for the safe return of paintings raided from his house earlier this month, which include a prized work by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian.

The 81-year-old woman Cecilia Gimenez who found herself in the headlines when it was revealed that she had attempted to repair a 19th-century fresco is now demanding royalties after her botched restoration became a hit with tourists.

The Louvre museum in Paris on Saturday opened to the public a new wing of Islamic art in a bid to improve knowledge of a religion often viewed with suspicion in the West.

The Cobra Museum presents the finest large-scale selection of paintings by Bram Bogart (1921-2012) seen in the Netherlands for many years.

On Saturday, September 22, Her Majesty the Queen opened the new Stedelijk. Beginning Sunday, September 23, the museum will be open to the public again. With a brand new wing, the Stedelijk now has more space than ever to show its famous collection and its renowned and influential exhibitions.

As of this week the new website ‘The Rembrandt Database’ is live. The Rembrandt Database is an inter-institutional research resource for information and documentation on paintings by Rembrandt – or attributed to him, either now or in the past – in museums around the world. The Rembrandt Database is open to anyone.

The XXVI° Biennale des Antiquaires will take place from 14 to 23 september 2012 at the Grand Palais, Paris. Organised by the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA - French National Union of Antique Dealers) since the original event in 1956, the 26th Biennale will take place from 14 to 23 September 2012, at the Grand Palais in Paris.