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Munch Painting Found at Kunsthalle Bremen

BREMEN, GERMANY.-A worker at the Kunsthalle Bremen museum found an unknown work titled The Girl and the Four Male Heads underneath a work by a Norwegian painter. The work was taken to the Munch Museum in Oslo and examined by Munch scholars there. They believe it was painted by Edvard Munch in 1898 or 1899. The work portrays a young woman seated on...

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Turner wins 'great painting' vote

The Fighting Temeraire by Turner has beaten works by Van Gogh, Hogarth and David Hockney to be named the greatest painting in Britain in a public vote. Constable's The Hay Wain came second in the poll, organised by BBC Radio 4's Today programme in association with the National Gallery in London. A Bar at the Folies-Bergere by Edouard Manet...

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Roy Lichtenstein Painting Slashed By Woman in Vienna

VIENNA, AUSTRIA.-A 35-year-old woman from Munich in Germany slashed four times a Roy Lichtenstein painting that is on exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz museum in Vienna. The police reported that the woman pulled a jack-knife from her bag this past Saturday and slashed the �Nudes in Mirror� work by Lichtestein. After this happened, staff and...

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Thai Artist Bakes Edible 'Body Parts'

POTHARAM, Thailand (AP) -- Inside a dark room, realistic-looking "human body parts" are stacked on shelves and hanging on meat hooks. The place looks like a mortuary or the lair of a serial killer, but in fact, it's a bakery. What appears to be putrefying body parts are the bread sculptures of 28-year-old art student Kittiwat Unarrom. "Of...

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Mus�e Marmotan Monet Presents Camille Claudel

PARIS, FRANCE.-Mus�e Marmotan Monet presents today Camille Claudel, on view through January 31, 2006. Camille Claudel (1864-1943) and Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) met in Paris in 1882. Seventeen-year-old Camille dreamed of becoming a sculptor; forty-one-year-old Rodin was already on the threshold of a brilliant career. Their bliss was...

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Children of Jerusalem - Painting...

LONDON, ENGLAND.-Ben Uri Gallery is proud to present a unique and remarkable exhibition of art by Isreali & Palestinian children 4th � 23rd December 2005; working together � painting their pain together whilst dreaming of peace together. Launched to international acclaim in Jerusalem it travelled to Geneva and now to London at the Ben Uri. Over...

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Bags in Nomadic Life

Nomadic life requires up to forty different varieties of bags, predominantly in pairs. Young women produce the bags before their marriage as an important part of their dowry. The girl's value is measured and defined by the number of pile-knotted and flat-woven bags that she will bring to the marriage. They indicate the women's wealth and weaving...

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Michelangelo Code� seen in frescoes

Anatomy lesson hidden in Sistine Chapel, doctors say SAO PAULO, Brazil - Two Brazilian doctors and amateur art lovers believe they have uncovered a secret lesson on human anatomy hidden by Renaissance artist Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel�s ceiling. Completed nearly 500 years ago, the brightly colored frescoes painted on the Vatican�s...

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Helmut Newton - Sex and Landscapes Opens

MUNICH, GERMANY.-Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung presents Helmut Newton - Sex and Landscapes, on view through November 1, 2005. There can be no doubt that the photographer Helmut Newton had an influence on the image of the post-war period, with his photographs from the realm of fashion and the international jet set, and above all with his �Big...

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Living Legacies - The Arts of the Americas

The Brooklyn Museum, New York is hosting a series of events under the title 'Living Legacies: The Arts of the Americas' centred around their collections of indigenous art from North, Central and South America dating from 3000 BC to the present day. 'Threads of Time: Woven Histories of the Andes' is one of three exhibitions happening...

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German Photographer Horst Tappe, 67, Dies

VEVEY, SWITZERLAND.-German photographer Horst Tappe famous for portraits of Salvador Dal�, Pablo Picasso and Alfred Hitchcock, 67, died on August 21. He was also famous for portraits of Vladimir Nabokov, Salman Rushdie, Oskar Kokoschka, playwright Noel Coward, novelists Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Georges Simenon and...

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Levi Strauss imitates art: Warhol's work to pop up on clothes

Levi imitates art: Warhol's work to pop up on clothes The apparel maker hopes that a line of $250 jeans, $300 jackets and other pieces will help it turn around its business. Four decades after Andy Warhol made Campbell's Soup cans chic, San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co. is betting that he can help boost business by getting...

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Mozart loses his (wax) head to thieves

Thieves snatched the head of a life-size Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wax figure from a Salzburg museum, Austrian police said. The figure was on display at Next to Mozart, a multimedia museum. The wax head is valued at $18,427, but museum employees told Austria Press Agency the work was truly unique. An employee said the theft apparently took...

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Stolen Da Vinci Probably Used As Collateral

DUMFRIESSHIRE, SCOTLAND.-Dick Ellis, the former head of Scotland Yard�s art theft squad stated that it is likely that The Madonna and the Yarnwinder by Leonardo da Vinci will resurface in five more years. The work was stolen the Duke of Buccleuch's estate on August 27, 2003. Dick Ellis stated, "Statistically, the recovery period for important...

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The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women...Opens

CHESTNUT HILL, MA.-Beginning this month, the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College and the New Center for Arts and Culture, Boston will present The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons. The exhibition was organized by The Jewish Museum in New York, where it debuted in March and was on display until July 10. The McMullen Museum...

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Louvre Expands

The Louvre, Paris, is the lucky recipient of a donation of �17million (�11.7m/$20.5m) from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, ranked by Forbes as the world's fifth wealthiest person. The money, the largest donation ever to be received by the museum, is to go towards a new wing dedicated to Islamic art. This will give a permanent home to the...

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Eight New Suspects for The Scream's Theft

OSLO, NORWAY.-Norwegian police announced they are looking for eight new suspects that may have been involved in the theft of Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream. Iver Stensrud, police inspector in charge of the investigation said, “We foresee new arrests.” So far, Norwegian police have arrested five people, three of which...

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Welcome Guests from Denmark - The Statens Museum

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK.-As part of a long-term cooperation agreement with the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, the Hamburger Kunsthalle presents Danish landscape painting from the ”Golden Age”. Following on from the exhibitions In the light of Caspar David Friedrich. Early plein-air painting in Denmark and North Germany (2000) and...

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Bansky Paints Israel's West Bank Security Wall

WEST BANK.-British artist Bansky recently painted Israel's West Bank security wall with satirical images of life on the other side. Bansky created nine paintings on the Palestinian side of the barrier. Banksy is from Bristol in Britain and never allows himself to be photographed. He is very well known for his art stunts around the world. Jo...

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$6.5 Million Settlement For Nazi-Stolen Picasso Painting

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marilynn Alsdorf of Chicago has decided to pay Thomas Bennigson, the grandson of a Jewish woman whose Pablo Picasso painting was stolen by Nazis during World War II, $6.5 million to keep the painting and stop the costly and complicated legal dispute, announced her attorney Richard Chapman. The estimated value of the painting is...

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European Buyers Heat Up London's Old Master Sales

LONDON. More than £100 million ($175 million) was spent on Old Master paintings and drawings at Sotheby’s and Christie’s during a busy round ofsales in London from July 5-8. The Part One evening sales at the two auction houses’ including paintings from the Hon. Robert Wills collection at Sotheby’s and the Antonio de...

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Nuclear Imaginaries Curated by Siumee Keelan

LONDON, ENGLAND.-This mixed media exhibition is inspired by classic manga (Japanese comic) Barefoot Gen, the vivid autobiographical story of artist Keiji Nakazawa who was only seven years old when the Atomic Bomb destroyed his home city of Hiroshima. The manga unveils his family�s struggle for survival in the aftermath of the atomic devastations....

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New Collection of Ernest Withers Photographs Opens

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.-Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is pleased to present a collection of photographs by the legendary photographer, Dr. Ernest Withers. Through the generosity of donors, a group of 122 Withers' photographs was recently purchased for the Brooks' permanent collection. Many of these works are included in the current exhibition and will...

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Collecting Modernism: European Masterworks

UTICA, NY.-Collecting Modernism European Masterworks from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute showcases the Museum of Art�s small but distinguished collection of painting, sculpture and drawings by artists such as Salvador Dal� (1904-89), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). In the years...

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Portrait of a Young Man by Titian To Be Sold

LONDON, ENGLAND.-The Third Earl of Halifax, owner of Portrait of a Young Man by Titian, has decided to sell the work. It has been on show at the National Gallery since 1992. The National Gallery issued the following statement: "The 'Portrait of a Young Man' has been on loan from the Earl of Halifax to the National Gallery since 1992....

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Dal� Retrospective Produces Almost $55 Million

PHILADELPHIA, PA.-The recently concluded Salvador Dal� retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was not only a spectacular exhibition of a great artist�s work but also produced a major economic impact for the City of Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, generating total economic activity of nearly $55 million, creating 830...

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Richard Jolley: Sculptor of Glass from 1985

CHATTANOOGA, TN.-Richard Jolley is one of America's foremost figurative sculptors of glass. The exhibit that will open on August 6 is his first retrospective, featuring work from the last two decades. Jolley, who lives and works in Knoxville, has moved purposefully through various series: beginning with sculptures that place an emphasis on line and...

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Kunsthaus Z�rich Presents Miroslav Tichy

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND.-The Kunsthaus Z�rich has become the first art museum to show the extraordinary photographs of the Czech artist Miroslav Tich� (*1926). Having chosen to live away from cultural and social centres, between 1960 and 1990 Tich� � exclusively using home-made cameras � created a highly original photographic �uvre of astonishing...

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Shooting Stars - Camera Portraits by Cornel Lucas

LONDON, ENGLAND.-Cornel Lucas (b.1920) has enjoyed a career as a leading photographer for over 40 years, first as one of the pre-eminent portraitists working for British Film Studios, from the late 1940s until the end of the 1950s, and thereafter as an independent photographer working in portraiture, advertising and fashion. This display brings...

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Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague

WORCESTER, MA.-The Worcester Art Museum, in partnership with Clark University and the College of the Holy Cross, presents the first major exhibition outside of Europe to explore art's role during the plague. Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800, on view at the Worcester Art Museum through Sept. 25, comprises 37 works...

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