“A large Guercino painting that was stolen from a church in Modena in August 2014 has been traced by Italy’s Carabinieri art crime squad to Casablanca, Morocco. The Italian government is negotiating to return Madonna with the Saints John the Evangelist and Gregory the Wonderworker (1639) to the Church of San Vincenzo ‘as soon as possible’.”
Jannis Kounellis, Pioneer Of Italy’s Arte Povera Movement, Dead At 80
He was known for using as materials everything from old furniture to coal to jute sacks to live birds; the 1960 show that made him famous involved 12 live horses.