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Meeting Place of the International Art World

Meeting Place of the International Art World 2005-06-15 until 2005-06-20 Art 36 Basel Basel, CH Switzerland The 36th edition of Art Basel, the international art show, takes place in Basel, Switzerland, from June 15 through 20, 2005. The Art Basel Committee has selected 270 leading galleries from all continents to participate....

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The Munch Museum Reopens with Munch By Himself

After the robbery of the Munch Museum 22.08.2004, the museum has been closed due to security measures and reconstruction. 18 June the museum reopens for the public with the exhibition, Munch by Himself, a comprehensive presentation of Edvard Munch�s self portraits. Few pictorial artists have scrutinized themselves as mercilessly and intensively...

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Brides of Frankenstein at San Jose Museum of Art

SAN JOSE, CA.- Guest curated by Marcia Tanner, Brides of Frankenstein is an exhibition of experimental work by a new generation of female artists working with video, electronics, robotics, the Internet, computer games and animation, and other digital and traditional media to animate synthetic creatures with virtual life. Presenting visually and...

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Russia split over returning war art

A senior Russian official has angered the country's nationalists by announcing that Moscow is close to agreeing the return to eight European countries of art "appropriated" by the Red Army during the Second World War. Anatoly Vilkov, deputy head of Russia's cultural heritage department, said Moscow had already satisfied many of the claims and was...

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Fakes, Frauds, and Fake Fakers

Some counterfeiters try to enter the "soul and mind of the artist." Some delight in the chemistry of baking paint and creating wormholes. Some start with real pictures and then "restore" them until they look as if they�re by a different artist. From ancient vases to conceptual art�if someone...

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Marilyn Monroe watercolour painting

An original Marilyn Monroe watercolor painting inscribed to President John F. Kennedy for his birthday and depicting a rose was sold at auction for $78,000. Over 200 personal and professional items from the estate of actress Marilyn Monroe that have been stored for 43 years were offered for sale in a public auction, June 4th 2005. The items...

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Asian Art in London - November 2005

Asian Art in London is a premier event, now in its eighth year, incorporating major London Asian Antique dealers and Auction Houses, together with England's finest Institutions, for a series of exhibitions, auctions, sales and lectures. Asian Art in London will take place from the 3rd - 11th November 2005. A sample of the magnificent selection of...

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Oslo Police Offers Reward for Info on Stolen Munch

OSLO, NORWAY - Oslo police have offered up to two million kroner ($310,000 dollars) to any person that can help them recover two Edvard Munch paintings stolen last year. According to the authorities, they will give the reward to anyone that can "provide information that enables police to return The Scream and Madonna to the city of Oslo"....

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Portrait of Liz Taylor snapped up for $12.6 million

Andy Warhol's portrait of actress Elizabeth Taylor, Liz, has been snapped up at a New York auction for �6.7 million ($12.6 million). British diamond collector and jeweller Laurence Graff outbid five other contenders for the classic image, one of 13 made from a publicity shot taken in 1963. The silkscreen picture depicts Taylor on a vibrant...

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Media Art Festival Friesland no.9

Call to Artists: Media Art Festival Friesland No.9 Deadline" 2005-05-02 until 2005-06-01 MediaArt Friesland Harlingen, , NL Netherlands The 9th Media Art Festival Friesland will take place in September - October, 2005 in the Nothern Province of the Netherlands, Friesland. Media Art Festival Friesland is an international platform for...

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$40 million plus for American art at Christie's

The sale of American art held by Christie's New York on May 19, 2005, totaled $40,669,200, with 182 of the 217 lots finding buyers, or 84 percent, a new record for a various-owner sale of American art at Christies. Six paintings sold for more than $1 million, and several new auction records were set. The top lot was Robert Henri's portrait of an...

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Art Moscow, May 24- May 29, 2005

The Art Moscow International Programme will take place from May 24th to 29th 2005 at the Central House of Artists in Moscow. Included in the Art Moscow programme: the Art Moscow contemporary art fair, several non-commercial exhibitions and a series of lectures, seminars and master classes. The fair provides a comprehensive overview of Russian...

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Camille Claudel and Rodin in Quebec

Claudel and Rodin in Quebec. The Mus�e national des beaux-arts has high hopes for its exhibition Camille Claudel and Rodin: fateful encounter (26 May-11 September). The last show on the French sculptor at the museum in 1998, "Rodin in Qu�bec", attracted a record 525,000 visitors. This examination of the personal and professional aspects of the...

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Major exhibition at Tate Britain

Major exhibition. Edgar Degas, Walter Sickert and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec are the three leading artists in a major exhibition at Tate Britain which explores the creative dialogue between British and French artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The exhibition features more than 100 works, including about twenty...

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Holocaust memorial opens in Berlin

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, designed by US architect Peter Eisenman, opened on 10 May. The E27.6 million memorial, which has been one of the most controversial and fiercely debated building projects in recent German history, consists of a field of 2,711 concrete slabs arranged in a grid pattern covering 19,000 square...

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Sale of important maps, atlases and globes on 8 June 2005

Christie's announced the sale of important maps, atlases and globes on 8 June 2005, which will be led by the first new map of the world. The printed map by Martin Waldseemuller, produced in 1507, is truly groundbreaking. It presents the first use of the word "America", as well as the first ever printed portrayal of the Earth as a globe, the first...

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Mona Lisa gains new Louvre home

Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old masterpiece now hangs alone on a wall in the museum's Salle des Etats. It will give the millions of people who come to see the Mona Lisa every year a better view of the painting. The Salle des Etats has had a 4.8m euro (�3.29m) renovation to provide a suitable home for the masterpiece. It will allow visitors...

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100 $ million pledge for Moma - The Museum of Modern Art

David Rockefeller, chairman emeritus at the Museum of Modern Art-New York, made a $100 million pledge to its endowment. This would make it the largest cash gift the museum has ever received. Rockefeller announced that the aim of the gift is to enhance public programs at MoMA. The money will be given to the museum after Rockefeller's death, but...

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Bird in space by Brancusi -auction on May 4

Christie's, New York. A superb, previously unrecorded sculpture by Constantin Brancusi, one of his most celebrated compositions, Bird in Space (estimate: $8,000,000-12,000,000), will be offered as one of the highlights in Christie�s evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on May 4. The sculpture comes from a European Private Collection were it...

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Lars - a cartoon living in the real world

One spin-off character, Little Ice Bear Lars, which originally started out in the "Maus" programme, is currently one of the most popular merchandise brands in Germany. A movie based on the bear is a box office hit. Lars, an extraordinary little polar bear, lives with his parents in the widespread landscape of the North Pole. One day, something...

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The first known self-portrait of Michelangelo

March 20, 2005 � A unique bas-relief, which might be the first known self-portrait of Michelangelo, has emerged from a private collection, art historians announced in Florence this week. The sculpture, a white marble round work attached to a flat piece of marble, with a diameter of 14 inches depicting a bearded man, was lent by a noble Tuscan...

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Colorist works at Sotheby's sale of Scottish Painting

In recent years, the market for Scottish art has seen almost unparalleled growth: last year, Sotheby's sales of Scottish paintings at Hopetoun and Gleneagles made a record total of �8.6 million (compared with �4 million in 2003). Although the headlines may have been dominated by prices such as the �744,800 paid for Jack Vettriano's Singing Butler...

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Thirty Goya Etchings disappeared in Helsinki

Around 30 etchings by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya have disappeared from the storage rooms of the National Gallery of Finland in Helsinki, museum officials announced on March 19. Officials do not know if the works were stolen or were stored in an unknown place while the museum was under renovation. Museum workers noticed the disappearance of...

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Russian Art Sale at Sotheby's on April

Russian art sale at Sotheby's on April On April 21, 2005 Sotheby's will hold its first combined auction of Russian Paintings and Works of Art in New York. The auction will feature a rediscovered masterpiece by Konstantin Makovsky in addition to other newly discovered works by Boris Grigoriev and Zinaida Serebriakova. Breathtaking Kremlin views...

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The biggest art collector has been arrested

The biggest art collector, Sheikh Saud Al-Thani of Qatar, has been arrested and is now under investigation for alleged misuse of public funds. The Sheikh Saud, who is a second cousin of the ruling Emir of Qatar, is currently under house arrest in the Qatari capital Doha. He was detained at the end of February. As Chairman of the National...

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Former Yugoslav general sent to jail for attacks on civilians and destruction of historical monuments

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague has sentenced Pavle Strugar, former General of the Yugoslav Peoples' Army (JNA), to eight years in prison for his role in the shelling of the historic old town of Dubrovnik, a Unesco World Heritage Site, on 6 December 1991. The sentence was pronounced on 31 January....

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"Caravaggio: The late years", National Gallery, London until May 22

Caravaggio (1571 - 1610) was at the height of his fame as the most original and powerful painter of his day, when in May 1606, he killed a man in a duel. With a capital sentence on his head, he was forced to flee Rome, never to return. During the remaining four years of his life, Caravaggio's art underwent a dramatic transformation as he moved...

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Russia -Minister calls for corporate support

The minister for culture and media and a culture ministry official, have warned that many of Russia�s museums and cultural institutions face imminent closure because the government cannot fund them and have called for private sector involvement to ease the impending crisis. Minister for culture and media made his comments in an end-of-year report...

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46 paintings and works on paper stolen and recovered

Paraguayan authorities have recovered 46 paintings and works on paper stolen from Spanish-American artist Esteban Vicente (1903-2001) during the final year of his life. The six major oils, smaller paintings, collages, pastels, drawings, and silk screens, all created in 1999 and 2000, are valued at $500,000. The works were recovered from the Asuncion...

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Berlin become a, if not the, European cultural capital

Berlin seemed to have it all culturally after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin had all the ingredients to become a, if not the, European cultural capital. Almost overnight, the city government was owner of 17 museums, 3 opera houses, 8 orchestras and 17 theaters. Further, as the only city to experience German unification firsthand, Berlin itself...

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