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Top German collector disappoints museums by selling loans

Top German collector disappoints museums by selling loans Hans Grothe, the German construction magnate, has sold his collection of over 700 works of post-1960s German art to the Wella haircare billionaires Sylvia and Ulrich Str�her for an estimated E50 million. The bulk of Mr Grothe's collection is currently on loan to two municipal German...

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National Treasures of Germany at Art and Exhibition Hall

BONN, GERMANY. Can an exhibition contribute to cultural reunification? Fifteen years after the reunification of Germany, twenty-five famous museums, libraries and archives of the country's new federal states are showing treasures from their collections. Major chapters of German and European history were written in what are now Eastern and Central...

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New Buyers: Russia, China, the Middle East

New Buyers: Russia, China, the Middle East NEW YORK�Veteran art-world observers are betting that future growth for many galleries and the major auction houses will be fueled by soaring demand in Russia, China and the Middle East. The new wealth generated by entrepreneurs in the economies of Russia and China has already created a growing class...

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Franco Zeffirelli production

Opera Los Angeles, United States Nicola Luisotti, conductor; Franco Zeffirelli, director; Roberto Alagna, Canio; Angela Gheorghiu, Nedda 7.30pm, Thursday 29 September 2005 Ruggiero Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci Description: An epic Franco Zeffirelli production fills the stage with a breathtakingly realistic spectacle of a contemporary...

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The most wanted works of art

The most wanted works of art Constantin Brancusi, 'Bird in space' (1926) Collection of Mary and John Shirley, Seatle Paul Cezanne(1902-93) 'The cardplayers' Collection of George Embiricos Willem de Kooning, 'The time of the fire' (1956) Collection of Agnes Gund, New York Marcel Duchamp (1919) Mona lisa with moustache and...

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Mona Lisa, the highest insurance valuance for a painting

Most of the world's most famous paintings are owned by museums, who very rarely sell them once acquired. As such, they are quite literally priceless; if for some reason paintings like the Mona Lisa were to become available, it is highly likely that they would sell for far higher values than the paintings listed below. The Guinness Book of...

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Yokohama 2005: Triennale of Contemporary Art

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.-YOKOHAMA 2005 - Yokohama's second International Triennale of Contemporary Art - builds on the success of YOKOHAMA 2001 and will feature the work of around 80 participating international and Japanese artists exhibiting in the main venue - two enormous warehouses located on Yamashita Pier. The Triennale offers an alternative to the...

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Most Expensive Art Ever !

Image: 'Boy with a pipe', Picasso Pricey Painting -'Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe' Vincent Van Gogh shaved his beard off and painted this self-portrait, Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe, for his mother before he killed himself. Not the coolest way of saying "Happy Mothers Day." In 1998, a buyer paid $71.5 million at an...

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5th Festival of Visual Culture

www.viscult.net SEPTEMBER 28TH - OCTOBER 3rd, 2005 JOENSUU, FINLAND The Finnish ethnographic film festival, Festival of Visual Culture, will celebrate its fifth anniversary this year: five years of streaming live on the Web most of the films, discussions and lectures! Further cause for excitement is the fact that this year's festival...

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The Poetic Mandarin, Chinese Calligraphy

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.-The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents The Poetic Mandarin, Chinese Calligraphy from the James Hayes Collection on view through November 27, 2005. In late imperial China the art of calligraphy became the most esteemed of all the arts. This exhibition and accompanying publication reveal a very personal journey of...

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Woman Linked to Munch Theft Arrested

OSLO, NORWAY.-A woman that is believed to have been an accomplice in the theft of Munch�s The Scream in Oslo has been detained by Norwegian police. The woman is charged with handling stolen goods after allegedly being found to have banknotes from a bank robbery in which a policeman was shot dead. According to a police lawyer the woman was suspected...

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Frida Kahlo exhibition - Tate Modern

Frida Kahlo exhibition - Tate Modern - until October 9 Eighty works are on display by this celebrated Mexican artist including her poignantly beautiful self portraits and lush still lifes. The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is now regarded as one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century and this is the first major...

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Artelibro Art Book Festival in Bologna

BOLOGNA, ITALY.-Artelibro Art Book Festival takes place September 22 � 26 in Bologna at the Palazzo di Re Enzo e del Podest�. Poring over books, lingering over the pictures, weighing what the editors have chosen to do, getting au fait with the Italian and foreign art publishing scene. Not to mention meeting authors, critics and artists, hearing...

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Weaving the Legend of Don Quijote at Meadows Museum

DALLAS, TEXAS.- The Meadows Museum presents Weaving the Legend of Don Quijote - 18th Century Tapestries from the Royal Court of Spain, on view through November 13, 2005. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of part one of "Don Quijote" by Miguel de Cervantes. It became one of the most successful and influential novels...

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Russian Art in the Second Half of 19th Century

PARIS, FRANCE.-Mus�e d'Orsay presents Russian Art in the Second Half of the 19th Cetury: I Search of a Identity, on view through January 8, 2006. This multidisciplinary exhibition is the first in France dedicated to Russian art, from the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century up to the end of the Czars regime in 1917....

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Apocalypse then

Apocalypse Then: Images of Destruction, Prophecy and Judgment from D�rer to the Twentieth Century spans five centuries and offers a glimpse of how artists have interpreted the perceived end of time. Using Albrecht D�rer's series of woodcuts Apocalypse with Pictures (Apocalypsis cum Figuris) as a point of departure, Apocalypse Then traces...

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Rembrandt Self-Portrait Recovered

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.-The most valuable of the three paintings that were stolen at an armed robbery at Nationalmuseum 22 December 2000 has been recovered in Copenhagen, one week before the opening of Nationalmuseum�s exhibition The Dutch Golden Age. Rembrandt, Frans Hals and their contemporaries. On Rembrandt and the stolen Rembrandt painting...

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Russia Art at GUggenheim Museum

NEW YORK, NY.�The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents RUSSIA!, the most comprehensive exhibition of Russian art ever shown in the United States, from September 16, 2005 through January 11, 2006. With more than 275 objects, this innovative exhibition features the greatest masterworks of Russian art from the thirteenth century to the present,...

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Exhibition Presents 75 Years of Revolutionary Poster Art

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA.-The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces a major exhibition that examines the key role played by crowds in modern politics and society from World War I to the fall of the Berlin Wall. On view September 14 � December 31, 2005, "Revolutionary Tides: The Art of the Political Poster, 1914�1989" focuses on the...

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62nd Mostra Awards

The 62nd mostra internazionale d�arte cinematografica came to an end on September 10, after 11 eleven days of screenings and encounters that gave an overview of cinema from all over the world. Official Awards of the 62nd Mostra The international juries have assigned the official awards of the 62nd Mostra. The Golden Lion for Best Film...

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London Design Festival 2005

The London Design Festival was established in 2003 as an annual international event to celebrate and promote London and the UK's creativity. By dedicating the last two weeks in September to design a diverse range of individuals and organisations are able to come together, celebrate the creative diversity of London, discover new ideas, make new...

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Hunt is on for world's best painting

Following the popularity of the BBC's vote on the greatest painting hanging in Britain, artworks from around the world are to be set against one another in a global Pop Idol-style contest. Voters will be asked to discriminate between Picasso and Pollock, Botticelli and Bosch, in the latest manifestation of the trend to popularise high culture by...

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Artists on the Run, Their Art Left Behind

The last grim image Jeffrey Cook remembers is the sight of a dog gnawing at a dead man's finger. "There was death all around me," said Mr. Cook, a New Orleans-born mixed-media artist. "Even as a 44-year-old man you cry." Fortunately, since his house is on one of the highest points in New Orleans, it suffered little damage. So...

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Women Encapsulated in Works at Sotheby's

LONDON, ENGLAND.-Two of the most captivating images of women, by two of the greatest artists of the late 19th and 20th centuries will feature in Sotheby's Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints sale on Tuesday, September 27, 2005. A colour lithograph entitled Madonna is one of the most iconic images by celebrated Norwegian artist Edvard Munch...

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Paul Sattler: Above, Below, and In Between

NEW YORK.-Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to present the first New York solo show of contemporary artist Paul Sattler with an exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and drawings. The show will provide the public with the first in-depth look at Sattler�s work since he was introduced to the New York art world at the National Academy of Design...

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Franz von Stuck - The Artist's Family

MUNICH, GERMANY.-Museum Villa Stuck presents Franz von Stuck - The Artist's Family, an exhibition in collaboration with the family of Franz von Stuck, on view through February 26, 2006. Beginning 8 September 2005, a series of exhibitions will be presented in cooperation with the family of Franz von Stuck in the newly restored Old Atelier in the...

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Forgotten Empire: the world of Ancient Persia

LONDON, ENGLAND.-The British Museum presents today Forgotten Empire: the world of Ancient Persia, on view through Jauary 10, 2006. Ancient Persia was the largest and wealthiest state in the Ancient Near East, eclipsing Assyria and Babylonia and overshadowing Greece in the west. This exhibition reveals the splendour of this vast empire (550BC to...

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Ernest Hemingway and Walker Evans: Three Weeks in Cuba

BOCA RATON, FLORIDA.-The Boca Raton Museum of Art presents Ernest Hemingway and Walker Evans: Three Weeks in Cuba, 1933, on view through November 30, 2005. Through a combination of 50 never-before-exhibited photographs by American master Walker Evans, and 20 newly found Hemingway letters, photographs and artifacts, this exhibition will expand...

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First show for Iran's Western art

The complete collection is on display for the first time A collection of modern art that has spent much of the past 25 years in a vault has gone on public display in Iran for the first time. The exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts includes works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Gauguin, and Warhol. Most of the 188 works were...

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Controversial Law In UK

September. After fighting it for years, British art dealers and auctioneers are preparing to implement a European Union rule that will give artists a royalty when their works are resold in London. Yet they're still resisting an expansion of royalties to artists' heirs. In January, the U.K. will follow France and Germany in making sellers of...

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