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Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters

MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY.-The Montclair Art Museum presents Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters, presented by the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation and on view through January 8, 2006. This show features a virtually unknown group of paintings and works on paper by leading Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, inspired by his...

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'Don't Buy Looted Goods By Accident'

LONDON - Museums, libraries and archives must work to ensure that they do not accidentally acquire material that has been stolen or looted, Culture Minister David Lammy said today. New Guidelines published today by the DCMS, urge cultural institutions to: ask for evidence, or provenance, of the object�s history before acquiring it; refuse to accept...

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Frans Post (1612-1680) Brazil at the court of Louis XIV

PARIS, FRACE.-The Louvre presents Frans Post (1612�1680) Brazil at the court of Louis XIV, on view through January 2, 2006. A unique moment in the history of art: the Louvre presents the works presently known of Frans Post, the first European artist to paint the New World, offered to Louis XIV in 1679. This exhibition follows the fabulous adventure...

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The Love of Drawing Opens at Musee Picasso

PARIS, FRANCE.-Musee Picasso presents Picasso. The Love of Drawing, on view through January 9, 2006. Exhibition organised by the Musee Picasso and the R鵮ion des mus饳 nationaux, in Paris, and by the Museu Picasso, in Barcelona, where it will be shown from 8 February until 8 May 2006. To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the...

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Impresionism at Christie's

Rarely do three well-known art collections come to the auction block in the same season. Even more rarely does one auction house get to sell then all. Starting Tuesday, Christie's will offer several exceptional works, including a Toulouse-Lautrec painting of a red-haired model, one of the centerpieces of the recent exhibition "Toulouse-Lautrec...

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Reforms of Peter the Great

The Board of Directors of Association Typographique Internationale announced its support to the initiative of a world-wide campaign in commemoration of the typographic reform of Czar Peter the Great. The year 2008 marks three hundred years of the typographic reform of Czar Peter the Great of Russia. The reform had a profound, long-lasting...

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'David's' face-lift

Threatened by the wear and tear of the ages -never mind periodic and predictable fig-leaf controversies - Michelangelo's iconic masterpiece 'David' was in need of major restoration to reverse the effects of environmental damage and well-meant but misguided restoration efforts. In September 2003, under the auspices of the Soprintendenza per il...

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The Basel Ancient Art Fair

The Basel Ancient Art Fair November 4 - November 9, 2005 The Basel Ancient Art Fair (BAAF) offers the opportunity to visit 15 leading specialists from all over the world, dealing in classical, Egyptian and Near Eastern antiquities. Every year, for some decades, Basel has been host to top dealers in ancient art. BAAF is building on this long...

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Santiago Calatrava - a new exhibition

Santiago Calatrava, the world-renowned architect who has designed some of the most beautiful structures of our epoch, is the subject of a new exhibition, Santiago Calatrava: Sculpture into Architecture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This exhibition, on view through March 5, 2006, will demonstrate that many of the forms of his celebrated...

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Christie's in China

Christie's has signed a deal to become the first Western auction house in China. Under the agreement Christie's will license its name, provide experts and oversee the entire auction process, from the acquisition of works for sale to the printing and design of the catalog. Its first sale - 45 examples of modern and contemporary Chinese art - is...

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Frieze Art Fair 2005

In Regent's Park in London, the doors opened on what has become, in the remarkably short space of three years, one of the world's biggest annual markets for contemporary art. There is something very intimate and direct about Frieze. It is not an auction; each of the items on sale has a fixed price. The artists are alive, and may even be...

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Tate Britain Presents Turner Prize 2005 Shortlist

LONDON, ENGLAND.-Work by the shortlisted artists will be shown in an exhibition at Tate Britain beginning on 18 October 2005. The winner will be announced at Tate Britain on 5 December during a live broadcast by Channel 4. The four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2005. The artists are Darren Almond, Gillian Carnegie, Jim...

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Rare Michelangelo to be sold next year

A late Michelangelo drawing, one of the few to survive the artist's attempt to destroy them, will be auctioned off next year, when the 450-year-old work will likely fetch some $4 million. "Study of a male torso," which the Italian artist completed in the 1550s, is being sold by a private collector who bought the black chalk drawing in...

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Turner Prize nominees

Turner Prize Work by the four artists nominated for the �25,000 Turner Prize have been unveiled at London's Tate Britain. The early favourite to win the prize is painter Gillian Carnegie, who creates unsettling versions of traditional styles like still life and landscapes. Among her work is a series of nudes known as her "bum...

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King Tutankhamun toured museums

When King Tutankhamun first toured US museums in 1979-80,Hollywood actor and comedian Steve Martin seized on the Egyptomania unleashed by the exhibition by inventing a song that asked King Tut, "How�d ya get so funky?" Banking on the likelihood that Tutankhamun is still funky, rock concert promoter AEG decided to back a second US tour for the...

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Turner Prize

The Tate Britain in London will open its doors Tuesday, October 20, to one of the gallery's most anticipated annual exhibitions: the display of works by the artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize. Because of the prize's controversial nature, the annual exhibit of works by the shortlisted artists regularly draws up to 100,000 visitors to the Tate...

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Images of Don Quixote at BYU Museum of Art

PROVO, UTAH.-In the four centuries since Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra published �El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha,� there have been many interpretations of the famous novel and its title character. These interpretations are reflected in the illustrations that accompany various editions of the book. To celebrate the 400th...

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Chagall's World of Love at Arken Museum of Modern Art

ISHOJ, DENMARK.-The Arken Museum of Modern Art presents Chagall's World of Love, on view through January 15, 2006. Love and tolerance is the order of the day at the Chagall exhibition this autumn at ARKEN. The over 180 works provide a unique opportunity of getting to know the great Jewish-Russian painter whose poetic pictures bridged...

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Nobel Prize Winner

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Treasures From Vietnam - Champa Sculptures

PARIS, FRANCE.-National Museum of Asian Art-Guimet presents Art Treasures From Vietnam - Champa Sculptures, on view through January 9, 2006. This exhibition aims to introduce the general public to a major aspect of Vietnam�s artistic heritage, by bringing together the greatest collections of Cham art in the world: the collections of the Da Nang and...

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The 2nd International Art & Antique Expo, Dubai

The 2nd International Art & Antique Expo 19th - 21st April, 2006, Dubai ___________________________ Classy depictions of an artist's cove...an International exhibition of magnificent works with an ancient touch...evoking aesthetic reaction worldwide... The 2nd edition of The International Art & Craft Expo, renamed as 'The International Art...

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Photographs Week Totals $14.5 Million At Christie's NY

NEW YORK.- Christie�s remarkable series of three Photographs sales this week has taken the market to previously unseen heights. Totaling an extraordinary $14,530,360, the sales, The Gert Elfering Collection, Robert Mapplethorpe Flowers and Photographs, offered collectors the most exciting selection of 20th Century photography in New York � and...

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Camille Claudel and Rodin at Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MI.-The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is the only U.S. venue for the international exhibition Camille Claudel and Rodin: Fateful Encounter, on view through Feb. 5, 2006. Fateful Encounter provides the first side-by-side comparison in America of the art of Camille Claudel (1864�1943) and Auguste Rodin (1840�1917), whose remarkable...

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Fierce friends: Artists & animals in the Industrial Era

AMSTERDAM.-The Van Gogh Museum presents the thematic family exhibition Fierce friends: Artists & animals in the Industrial Era, 1750-1900. This multidisciplinary show examines the relationship between man and the animals with displays of over 200 objects. The exhibition will appeal to a broad public but for the first time the presentation...

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Two Major Aquisitions in the Art World

Hedge-fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen recently purchased two major works of art from Las Vegas casion owner Stephen Wynn, according to reports. "The paintings are van Gogh's 'Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat' (1890) and Gauguin's 'Bathers' (1902), and they once hung in the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art in Las Vegas, which was...

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FIAC - International Contemporary Art Fair

FIAC - International Contemporary Art Fair 09th October 2005 - 13th October 2005 Contemporary artists, gallery-owners and collectors flock to the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC) at the Porte de Versailles, one of the major dates on the worldwide calendar of modern art. This year's event offers 174 galleries...

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Major collectors

Major collectors - Sammy Ofer Romanian-born, Monte Carlo-based shipping and real estate tycoon, Sammy Offer is the major stockholder of Royal Caribbean, the international leisure cruse line. His art collection mainly includes Contemporary Art. Mr. Offer recently added a Gerhard Richter valued at $5.3 Million to his vast art...

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Stolen art worth E1,5m recovered in Italy

Stolen art worth E1,5m recovered in Italy 27/09/2005 Authorities have recovered works of art worth E1,5m that had been stolen from churches, castles and private homes throughout northern Italy since 1990, the Carabinieri paramilitary police said today. The 19 paintings and one 18th-century kneeling-stool were discovered at the home of a farmer near...

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Moscow, new Eldorado for art dealers

MOSCOW. Moscow will become the world's third biggest art market by 2010. A great number of dealers demonstrated their belief in the promising future of Russia's art market by exhibiting at the fair, held in the Manege, a newly refurbished 18th-century exhibition hall tucked under the walls of the Kremlin. Russia and its nascent art market...

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Manet reunited

Manet reunited Two paintings by Manet which were originally on one canvas and then cut by the artist have been reunited this week for the first time since 1878. London's National Gallery is lending its Corner of a caf�-concert to the Oskar Reinhart Collection "Am R�merholz",in Winterthur, Switzerland which owns Au caf� (until 29 Janury 2006)....

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