Modern art

News broke over the weekend in Germany that 1500 masterpieces by Matisse and Picasso and others were found in an apartment in Munich.

Here’s a case where helping Lebanon may be your ticket to a world-class art collection.

It’s a good day for the UN, with its chemical weapons inspectors getting honored with a Nobel Peace Prize. The UN has been recognized in other ways over the years. A LEGO model of UN Headquarters was recently unveiled. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon even snapped in the final piece on a large scale version. We got the small kit here in the office — all 597 pieces. And we set out to build it.

The major news out of the art world this week was of a new Van Gogh painting being discovered. Only, it wasn’t exactly lost, it’s just that it had previously been treated as a fake. But a two-year research project has changed that opinion and ruled it legitimate.

Sarah Sze makes ambitious sculptures, but practically always out of run-of-the-mill objects. Her sculpting will be on full display this year when she represents the United States at the art world’s Venice Biennale.