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Nomads of Nowadays at the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdanks

The Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdanks is presenting between 26 September - 19 November 2006 a strange and interesting exbition with the title "Nomads of Nowadays", dedicated to the problem of mobility today and how the modern nomads, in the era of globalisation, are adapting nowadays. What are the consequences of this situation...

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Louis Comfort Tiffany Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is presenting between November 21 2006 - May 20 2007 an exhibition dedicated to the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, organised with the support of Tiffany & Co. Foundation. If the other Tiffany exhibitions so far have been dedicated solely to the works of the artist, this time the subject is his magnificent house...

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Cezanne to Picasso - an Exhibiton at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is presenting between September 14, 2006 - January 7, 2007 the first extensive exhibition dedicated to the personality of Ambroise Vollard, one of the most important French art dealers, with the...

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Stig Lindberg Exhibition at the National Museum of Sweden

Stig Lindberg (1916-1982) was one of the most popular industrial designers of his country, especially for his household items - mainly ceramics - being a name and a brand well known to any Swedish family. He was also an accomplished artist and a great illustrator, his drawings decorating some of the most popular children' books in Sweden ....

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A Mirror of Nature - Landscape Exhibition at the The Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm is presenting a fabulous exhibition of landscape paintings, "A Mirror of Nature. Nordic Landscape Painting 1840-1910", a vast collection of the best of Nordic landscape painting, beginning at the middle of the 19 th century, till the first decade of the 20 th century. It is not only a chance to...

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Egyptian antiquities from the Louvre at the National Gallery of Australia

The Australian public will have a rare opportunity of discovering the funeral art of Ancient Egypt in an extraordinary exhibition, which will soon open at the National Gallery of Australia . This amazing collection of art and various artefacts in on loan from the famous Louvre Museum , and this event is the first exhibition the Louvre...

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Holbein in Britain at Tate Gallery

The prestigious Tate Gallery in the UK is preparing and impressive exhibition dedicated to the work and personality of Hans Holbein (1497/8-1543), the first great British artist and one of the most important painters in history. With the title "Holbein in Britain ", the exhibition is scheduled to open on 28 September 2006 and will...

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East and West at Tate Gallery

Tate Gallery in the UK is presenting, between 1 September 2006 - 18 February 2007 a fascinating collection of British art, from 1500 to the present, with the title "East-West: Objects Between Cultures". The exhibition is exploring the Christian-Muslim explores Christian-Muslim relations, encounters, cultural, artistic and...

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Exhibition John Constable at the National Gallery of Art in Washington

Some of the best known landscapes painted by John Constable, one of the most important artist in the British world, have finally been reunited in a splendid exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington . Beside the landscapes in the exhibition are being presented some of the beautiful full-size sketches, for the first time after...

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X th International Congress of Egyptologists

International Association of Egyptologists: Xth International Congress of Egyptologists The first announcement went out in September 2006 Deadline for the pre-registration: July 1, 2007 Deadline for the submission of abstracts: September 1, 2007 Deadline for the late registration: January 1, 2008 Final announcement with...

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Brassai sales, Paris

PARIS, Brassai sales, Hotel Drouot, Millon Associes, 2 and 3 October 2006 Brassai (1899-1984) A little more than twenty years following Brassai's death and a year after that of his widow's, an important ensemble by the famous Hungarian is being scattered. On 2 October will be...

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Exhibition Hans Holbein, Tate Britain

Exhibition Hans Holbein, Tate Britain 28 September 2006 - 7 January 2007 Hans Holbein is one of the greatest artists of all time. He moved to England from Basel in 1526-1528 and then again in 1532-1543, an extremely turbulent time in English history when all around were losing their heads. His arrival...

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Polar Sale

Polar Sale will be held on 27 September at Christie's, London. A magnifying glass in tortoise shell, which belonged to captain Cook, is estimated at 20, 000 BP (US$ 37,735) . James Cook was born on the 27th October 1728 in the little Yorkshire village of Marton. The cottage in which James was born has long since been...

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Art From The Louvre At Denver

September 20, 2006 The Denver Art Museum will host the exhibit "Artisans & Kings: Selected Treasures from the Louvre" from the world-renowned Parisian Louvre this fall. The exhibit will be up when the expansion opens on October 7 and run through January 6. The Louvre exhibit tells stories of Paris' artisans...

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Museum Kunst Palast Presents Caravaggio Exhibition

Museum Kunst Palast presents Caravaggio, on view through July 1, 2007. Only very few artists have given rise to so much fascination and speculation about their lives and work as did the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi, also known as Caravaggio (1571-1610). Having trained in Milan and Rome , he subsequently worked in southern Italy and...

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From Manet and Degas to Matisse and Picasso

Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhague presents French Master Drawings. From Manet and Degas to Matisse and Picasso, on view through October 8, 2006. This summer's exhibition at Statens Museum for Kunst offers a rare insight into the museum's rich collection of drawings and watercolours by French masters from the 19th and 20th centuries....

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Art Basel Fair

BASEL- This is the 37th edition of a now highly acclaimed fair: the Art Basel fair has 5 days to give the measure of international art. The 290 galleries admitted offer a complete panorama (nearly 2000 artists), from XXth century avant-gard to current creations. For many of them the contracts signed or even the contacts made this week represent an...

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The third annual Moscow World Fine Art Fair

The third annual Moscow World Fine Art Fair opens its doors in the Manege for its seven-day run on Monday, May 22. Over eighty international dealers from the United States , Switzerland , France , England , Israel and Russia offer a wide range of specialties including furniture and works of art spanning the 16th through 21st centuries,...

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The second highest price ever paid for a work at auction

"Dora Maar with cat" on May 3 at Sotheby's. $95.2 million on a Picasso portrait of Dora Maar. It became the second highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction, after "Boy With a Pipe" a 1905 painting from Picasso's Rose Period, which brought $104.1 million at Sotheby's in May 2004. The buyer, unrecognized by the...

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Van Gogh's famous work will be auctioned

On May 2, Christie's New York will lead the impressionist and modern art collecting world to new heights when Van Gogh's magnificent painting L'Arl�sienne, Madame Ginoux , will be offered during the Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale at Rockefeller Center. From the Bakwin Family Collection, L'Arl�sienne is expected to realize in...

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Picasso's famous painting will be auctioned

Pablo Picasso's famous painting, "Dora Maar With Cat" (1941) was put on display at Sotheby's Auction House in Paris on Tuesday, the first time it has been seen in public for over 40 years. The painting will be auctioned at Sotheby's in New York on May 3. It has been part of a private American collection for four...

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The origins of a great collection - Thyssen

August Thyssen (1842-1926) was the founder of the Thyssen family's financial empire, which had its roots in the iron and steel industry. Although he was blessed with great artistic sensitivity, August Thyssen did not have time to devote to collecting art until his later life. Keen to build up a collection of sculptures, he turned to the most famous...

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Celebrating Picasso

Malaga, Picasso's home town, celebrates the 125 th anniversary of the artist's birth with The Picassos of Antibes at the Museum Picasso. Picasso's friend, Dor de la Souchere, invited the Spaniard to use a room in the Grimaldi castle in Antibes on the French Riviera as a studio. The castle was turned into a museum in 1929. The walls of...

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Most visited exhibitions worldwide

2005's Most-Visited Exhibitions Three of the top ten most-visited exhibitions worldwide last year were in Japan. The Art Newspaper publishes its annual list... March 2006

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Christie's to Auction Stradivari's The Hammer

Christie's will auction the Stradivarius violin known as The Hammer on May 16 in New York , the auction house announced. According to Christie's, the 1707 violin, which dates from violinmaker Antonio Stradivari's golden period, is in a wonderful state of preservation. Christie's estimates the price of the violin at $1.5 to $2.5...

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MANCHESTER ART GALLERY TO HOST LIVE RESTORATION OF VICTORIAN PAINTING

Visitors to Manchester Art Gallery this spring will be able to witness live work on the Gallery's most ambitious conservation project ever; the restoration of William Etty's huge and dramatic painting The Sirens and Ulysses. The restoration begins on March 18 2006 and will take place over a period of around 18 months. It is...

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Picasso, Dali paintings stolen from Brazil museum

Gunmen have robbed a Rio de Janeiro art museum of their most valuable paintings including a Picasso, Matisse, Monet and Dali, the Chacara do Ceu museum director said. The gunmen also mugged five tourists inside the museum. At least four men brandishing firearms and a hand grenade, broke into museum and made off with four paintings and a...

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Ingres show opening in Paris

The Louvre in Paris has organised a major survey of the French neo-Classical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (24 February-15 May) in collaboration with the Musee Ingres in Montauban, the artist's birthplace. Some 80 paintings and 104 drawings organised into six chronological sections outline Ingres's debt to Raphael and Poussin...

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A Sale in Hell

"I know these passions and disasters too well," wrote Arthur Rimbaud in 1873, "the rages, the debauches, the madness." When he wrote these words, the great French poet was living in a house in Camden Town with his equally brilliant and volatile partner, Paul Verlaine. The now decrepit terraced house still holds...

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The Venice Carnival

The Venice Carnival is back! It's a party with no barriers or borders, and it's held in the most sumptuous and famous historic city in the world. Venice is the par excellence place for fancy-dress parties, jokes and sneers, welcoming masqueraders, visitors and tourists who want to play and to live it up on the closing days of winter. The...

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