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Stolen Van Goghs Returning to Holland, America’s First Inauguration Day, and More Fresh News

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
‘Seascape at Scheveningen’ (1882) is one of two Van Gogh paintings stolen from the Amsterdam museum in 2002. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • Two paintings by Vincent van Gogh that were stolen from an Amsterdam museum in 2002 and recovered by Italian police last year are returning to the Netherlands. A court in Naples has cleared Van Gogh’s Seascape at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen to go back to the museum. [Read more from the Associated Press/Washington Post]
  • What was Inauguration Day like for America’s first president? It was a grand historical event in New York City, attended by … hundreds. [Read more from George Washington’s Mount Vernon]
  • Just in time for Inauguration Day celebrations, a bottle of Trump Scotch whisky in a box autographed by America’s new president has sold at auction for $7,334. The 26-year-old single malt whisky was bottled in 2012 to mark the opening of Trump International Golf Links in Scotland. [Read more from The Scotsman]
  •  Emily Dickinson is the subject of a new exhibition at New York’s Morgan Library & Museum. Although Dickinson wrote almost 1,800 poems, her work was largely unknown during her lifetime, since few of her works were published until after her death in 1886. [Read more from The Morgan]

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