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The Wiener Werkstatte at the Center for Fine Arts in Brussels

The Wiener Werkstatte at the Center for Fine Arts in Brussels YEARNING FOR BEAUTY The Wiener Werkst�tte and the Stoclet House FROM FEBRUARY 17 TO MAY 25 2006

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A photograph sold for more $2.9 million

A photograph titled The Pond-Moonlight, taken by U.S. photographer Edward Steichen in 1904, sold for more than $2.9 million US on Tuesday, a world record for a photograph. The Pond-Moonlight shows a pond in a wooded area with light coming through the trees a reflected on the water. It was taken on Long Island by Steichen, one of a group...

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Moscow- Preservation

In the capital of Russia's unbridled new capitalism, every property developer knows what do with a decaying Soviet factory or warehouse: raze it and build a shiny block of flats. Scores of Moscow's historical monuments have been flattened or altered beyond recognition in the past decade. But now comes something different. It has yet to turn...

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Indian sale of Picasso art

Strong response to Indian sale of Picasso art The first ever sale of Pablo Picasso's works in India has received a strong response from art collectors, who bought 10 prints and ceramic pieces on the opening day, a news report said on Thursday. More than forty Picasso-signed paintings curated by...

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Sale of Pablo Picasso's works in India

The first ever sale of Pablo Picasso's works in India has received a strong response from art collectors, who bought 10 prints and ceramic pieces on the opening day, a news report said on Thursday. More than 40 Picasso-signed paintings curated by London's Grosvenor Gallery are on display at the Vadehra Art Gallery in...

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The first ever sale of Pablo Picasso's works in India

Sale of Picasso art in India The first ever sale of Pablo Picasso's works in India has received a strong response from art collectors, who bought ten prints and ceramic pieces on the opening day, a news report said on Thursday. More than 40 Picasso-signed paintings curated by...

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Theo Van Rysselberghe, Luxembourg

Th�o Van Rysselberghe, Mus�e national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg 180 works, often shown for the first time, trace the career of a major figure of neo-impessionism

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Woman artists - XVI-XVII centuries

Woman artists XVI-XVII centuries SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA (1531-1626)- was one the six daughters of a nobleman of Cremona, Amilcare Anguissola. Her sisters Elena, Europa, Anna Maria, and Lucia were also painters. Elena curtailed her career to become a nun, Europa and Anna Maria married and apparently did not further their artistic inclinations....

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Warhol's World, Exhibition London

Warhol's World 27 January - 11 March 2006 HAUSER & WIRTH Gallery London

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Nostradamus, Three waves to the Apocalypse

Copro/Nason Gallery 2525 Michigan Ave. T5, Santa Monica , "Nostradamus, Three waves to the Apocalypse" Date: February 4 through March 4, 2006 CoproNason Gallery presents a group art exhibition of work honoring the most widely read seer of the Renaissance, Nostradamus. Michel de Nostredame, known as Nostradamus, has intrigued...

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A series of thefts of Britain's public art

On Jan. 10, at a university campus in Roehampton, a 2.2-m-tall sculpture weighing one-third of a ton by the British modernist Lynn Chadwick was hacked from its plinth. One of a trio of figures, The Watchers, it is valued at $1 million � far less than the $5.4 million price tag on Henry Moore's 2.5-ton Reclining Figure that in December was lifted,...

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Art market watch

Old Master paintings at Sotheby's New York on the morning of Jan. 26 totaled $57,150,000, within the presale estimate of $43,000,000-$60,000,000, with 233 of 335 lots finding buyers, or 69 percent. Top lot was a luxurious oil on panel Flowers in a Terracotta Vase by Jan van Huysum, the greatest of 18th-century Dutch still life painters, which sold...

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Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print

Exhibition 2006-01-30 until 2006-05-13 Scandinavia House New York, NY, USA United States of America Edvard Munch (1863-1944), the renowned Symbolist painter, is considered among the great printmakers of the modern period. Munch employed printmaking techniques to distil his complex imagery into potent and universal signs that continue...

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Unknown Hitler paintings found in attic

Unknown Hitler paintings found in attic Twenty-one watercolours and sketches by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler are to be auctioned in Britain after 70 years in a suitcase in a Belgian attic, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reports. The collection was apparently produced between 1916 and 1918 when the young Hitler was a corporal during World War I. The...

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A Storied Rembrandt Goes to a Mystery Bidder

A mysterious collector went on a Dutch buying spree yesterday at Sotheby's, paying $4.27 million for a much-watched Rembrandt portrait and another $1.87 million for a Jan Steen and a Gerrit Dou. The bidder, identified only as a New York collector and Paddle No. LO179, snapped up the works in the first hour of the old master paintings sale,...

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Portrait Fetches Record Sum At Auction

Charles Willson Peale's full-length portrait of George Washington on the American Revolutionary War battlefield fetched $21.3 million at auction Saturday,January 21, setting a world record for the sale of an American portrait, Christie's auction house said. "George Washington at Princeton," signed and dated 1779 by the Revolutionary...

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France Honors Penelope Cruz

Pen�lope Cruz, praised by the French culture minister as a great European actress, has been proclaimed a knight in the Order of Arts and Letters, The Associated Press reported. At ceremonies in Paris attended by Salma Hayek, her co-star in "Bandidas," a new movie Ms. Cruz is promoting, Culture Minister said, "It's France's role to be...

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Jacques Faizant

Jacques Faizant, 87, a French editorial cartoonist whose work was a fixture in the newspaper Le Figaro for more than four decades, died Saturday in Paris. Jacques Faizant contributed more than 30,000 cartoons to Le Figaro before his retirement late last year. After falling ill, he found it hard to draw. Faizant's work caricatured French leaders...

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APH InSights 2006 Art Competition and Exhibition

Artists of all ages who are blind or visually impaired are invited to submit artwork for the thirteenth annual international art competition, APH InSights 2006. Last year, 526 entries were received. From these, jurors selected eighty pieces for the exhibition, which was shown in Louisville in October. Artists may enter artwork created in any...

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Rare Egyptian sculpture puts a human face on a remote civilization

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, set a world record when it bought this ancient Egyptian limestone sculpture at auction Dec. 9. Extraordinarily, earlier in the same sale, another statue, a granite figure, also set a record for an Egyptian antiquity, when it sold for $2,256,000. But the granite figure didn't hold that record...

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Latest statistics for libraries

Latest statistics show mixed fortunes for libraries While visits to public libraries increased by over three million last year, statistics released today show that the number of active borrowers and the number of books issued continue to fall. Figures from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy showed that in 2004/05,...

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Rediscovering Mozart in 2006

A lot of people got a distorted view of Mozart from Peter Shaffer's play "Amadeus" and Milos Forman's popular screen adaptation. Now comes the truth, or at least as close to it as we can probably hope to get. Making its debut at the start of this year's 250th anniversary of the composer's birth is "In Search of Mozart," a...

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Rembrandt's Year -2006

2006 marks Rembrandt's 400th birthday, and an array of exhibitions, from the sublime to the silly, will open in Amsterdam, Washington and beyond. Dutch master painter Rembrandt, who was born 400 years ago this year, is being honored at the Duke Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig with a special exhibit from September to December. The official...

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The Scandal Sweeping Russia's Art Market

January 2006 Forgers have been retouching hundreds of works by minor European artists, putting the signatures of major Russian artists on them and selling them for many times their worth. The signature of Russian painter Boris Kustodiev was added to German painter Ludwig von Langenmantel's 'Woman in a Blue Dress'and the painting was retitled 'At...

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Christmas tree in England

Most houses in England, will have a tree of some sort or other which they will decorate and will place the presents under. The traditional tree is a fir tree but now-a-days more people buy artificial trees to 'save the earth'. The decorating of the tree is usually a family occasion, with everyone helping. The Christmas tree became popular in...

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Picasso, Chagall stolen

A Picasso and a Chagall have been stolen from a Palm Desert gallery. The Picasso, "Femme Regardant par la Fenetre," is a 1959 linoleum cut in shades of brown and black of a nude woman reclining and looking out a window, printed by the artist and worth about $53,000. The Chagall, a 1964 lithograph titled "The Tribe of Dan," is a...

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The Chronological History of the Christmas Tree

Why do we have a decorated Christmas Tree? In the 7th century a monk from Crediton, Devonshire, went to Germany to teach the Word of God. He did many good works there, and spent much time in Thuringia, an area which was to become the cradle of the Christmas Decoration Industry. Legend has it that he used the triangular shape of the Fir Tree to...

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The tradition of a decorated tree in the White House

The tradition of a placing a decorated tree in the White House began in 1889 on Christmas morning during the Presidency of Benjamin Harrison. The President,s grandchildren, young Benjamin and Mary McKee, led the Harrison household into the second floor Oval Room to take a look at the first White House Christmas tree, which was lit with candles....

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Watercolours by Hitler auctioned on eBay

December 22 2005 Watercolours by Adolf Hitler are going for a few thousand euros on the Austrian page of the auction website eBay. A painting titled Muenchen, (Munich) bearing the signature of the Nazi dictator and described by the seller as a "rarity", was put up for auction on Monday at an asking price of �2,100 (roughly...

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Miracle of Christ's birth in artworks

Throughout the centuries, great painters have celebrated the miracle of Christ's birth in works of art. In recent years, many of those works of art have been made available on the World Wide Web. Here we have collected links to many paintings on Internet sites across the world which portray the events of the Christmas story.

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