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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be screening Out of the Shadows on two occasions in June. Your first chance to catch the film is on June 1 from 3pm-4pm. The screening is free with your museum admission. On June 3rd, there will be a panel discussion with Joris Dik, who is [...]

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Today marks the opening of a spectacular new exhibit called “Discoveries – New Light on Old Masters” at The Rembrandt House Museum in The Netherlands. The exhibit features several works by Rembrandt and his contemporaries that have been examined using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF). XRF has allowed scientists to look below layers of paint to reveal [...]

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GOYA’S PRACTICE OF re-using canvases, both his own and those of others, has become increasingly documented in recent decades. Examples range from the Alberto Foraster painted in 1804 over a portrait by the little-known José Cayetano de Pinho, through the series of large genre scenes of 1808–12 executed on top of what appear to be [...]

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As Easter draws to a close, the tiny Medieval Prayer Nut examined in Kevin Sullivan’s “Out of the Shadows” takes on new meaning. Today the prayer nut is an artifact held in a museum for the purpose of study but in the 15th century it was held in the hands of a devout follower of Christ for the purpose of worship.

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Here are some video clips of local news coverage from the press conference held in Holland to officially announce that “Old Man with a Beard” was painted by Rembrandt:  

Joris Dik, whose X-Ray techniques are described in Kevin Sullivan’s “Out of the Shadows“, has helped authenticate a painting by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh. The painting, “Still Life with Meadow Flowers and Roses” has been at the  Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Holland, since 1974. However, various examinations over the years led to the conclusion [...]

This mini documentary explores how a lost Rembrandt painting was uncovered and authenticated by the Rembrandt Research Project in 2011 using innovative scientific data generated by an atomic particle accelerator at Brookhaven, Long Island. For hundreds of years the public has only seen the surface of famous masterpieces by artists such as Van Gogh and [...]

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Independent journalist Judith H. Dobrzynski attended the Premiere screening of “Out of the Shadows” at the Park Avenue Armory in New York last week. To read her review click here

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Sullivan Entertainment is proud to announce that Dorit Straus, Vice President of Chubb International Fine Art, will host the Premiere Screening of “Out of the Shadows” during the New York Winter Art Fair on Jan. 24th, 2012 at 4:00 PM at the Park Avenue Armory. The gala event features a distinguished panel of guests including [...]

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Congratulations to Brookhaven National Laboratories for winning two R&D 100 Awards for their imaging devices. Only 100 of these prestigious awards are presented each year by R&D Magazine to honour the top technological achievements of the year. Dr. D. Peter Siddons, Detector Development Group Leader at Brookhaven contributed his time and expertise to “Out of [...]