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This fall the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts will disperse its entire collection of Warhols, donating some and selling others through Christie’s auction house as it shifts almost exclusively into a grant-making organization.

SH Contemporary is now approaching its 6th edition. SH Contemporary 2012 will take place in the spectacular Shanghai Exhibition Center, one of the city's landmarks, from September 7th to September 9th 2012, with preview on the 6th.

The Grand Opening of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will take place on Saturday 13 April. On the following day, Sunday 14 April, the Rijksmuseum will open its doors to the public.

Amsterdam Drawing 2012, the first Dutch art fair for original works on paper, wants to bring contemporary art on paper to the attention of a wider audience.

It’s been called the “world’s worst restoration” but the 19th-century fresco of Christ that now resembles a pale monkey has developed a legion of supporters online and become a tourist draw at the Santuario de Misericodia church in Borja, in northeastern Spain.

The Soli Brug Gallery, a Norwegian art gallery, has lost a Rembrandt etching worth up to £5,400 (6,800 euro) in the post, after trying to save money on a courier and insurance.

The Spiral is a five-episode participative TV series about the disappearance of six famous artworks and will be broadcast in September 2012 across Europe. The Spiral tells the story of an artists’ collective in Copenhagen and its charismatic leader Arturo.

An elderly women in the town of Borja, Spain, has destroyed a 19th-century fresco in an attempt to restore it. The ‘Ecce Homo‘ fresco by the Spanish artist Elias Garcia Martinez (1858-1934) began to show signs of aging. The women, in her 80s, noticed the poor condition of the painting and decided to restore it herself.

The new logo of the Rijksmuseum was today unveiled at the museum. The logo forms part of the new house style for the Rijksmuseum, which has been designed by the internationally known Dutch designer Irma Boom.

The Cobra Museum begins the new season with a major retrospective exhibition of paintings by Bram Bogart (1921-2012), the first large-scale presentation of his work in many years.

Paleis Soestdijk (Soestdijk Palace) hosts since 17 August 2012 a unique Escher exhibition: M.C. Escher, Walks through Time. The exhibition houses 80 works made by the Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher at the peak of his life.

Britain has placed a temporary export ban on ‘Child With A Dove’, a privately owned Picasso “Blue Period” painting, saying that the work has become too important to Britain’s national heritage to allow it to be sold and to leave the country.

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will celebrate its opening ceremony on Saturday, September 22, 2012, and will begin welcoming the public on September 23, following the completion of the most ambitious renovation and expansion project in its history.

Fine Art Asia 2012 will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from Thursday 4th to Sunday 7th October 2012. As the only major international fine art fair in Asia, over 20,000 visitors are expected to attend from across the Asia region and around the world.

‘Still Life with Peonies’, a painting of a vase of multicoloured peonies resting on a wooden floor, was discovered in a Belgian attic in 1977. Since then debate has raged in the art world whether it is a work made by the Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh.

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford raised the £7.83m needed to acquire Edouard Manet's portrait of Mademoiselle Claus, an exquisite 19th century painting. The fundraising campaign to keep the acclaimed 19th century impressionist painting in the UK has been successful.

From 6 October to 11 November 2012, De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam will be exhibiting a 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, will be coming to Europe.

The 37th international art and antiques fair 'Art Nocturne Knocke' at the Belgian Coast will start next weekend. Art Nocturne Knocke has become one of the most prestigious arts & antiques fairs of the Belgium summer season.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam recently acquired a unique sculpture of a screaming child created by Hendrick de Keyser (1565-1621), considered one of the foremost 17th-century Dutch sculptors. The sculpture was gifted to the Rijksmuseum by an anonymous donor.

On Sunday Mr. Brainwash (aka Thierry Guetta) will open his first UK solo art show in London. He will be taking over The Old Sorting Office, a colossal space centrally located next to the British Museum at the corner of New Oxford Street and Museum Street in London, during the Olympics.