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| Bringing beauty and beast into the drawing room / The Economist |
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| Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 |
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| His monumental public sculptures have been seen by tens of millions of people from Chicago to Tel Aviv. In London alone, the 4m or so who visited Tate Modern in 2002 could not have missed his dark red, 500-foot-long (152-metre) PVC-covered 'Marsyas'... |
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| Parr To Donate His Collection to His Country / Artinfo |
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| Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 |
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| Photographer Martin Parr has decided to rectify what he sees as a serious gap in Britain's national art collection by leaving his personal compilation of photographs to one of the country's major museums. Over the years, Parr, a Magnum photographer... |
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| The Art of Politics / Artinfo |
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| Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 |
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| As Michelle Obama leads an arts tour of Pittsburgh for the first ladies, and two first men, of the countries represented at the G-20 summit, she is sure to encounter a new exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum... |
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| Double Denied (again) / Art + Auction |
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| Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 |
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| The lawsuit involving film producer Joe Simon-Whelan's 24 by 20 inch Andy Warhol silkscreen self-portrait from 1964, branded twice on its back with denied stamps by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, has entered a new phase that may cost millions.. |
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| Assimilating "Semele" / Modern Painters |
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| Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 |
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| Take a story line from Ovid's Metamorphoses, dramatize it as an opera composed by one of the 18th-century's greatest composers, and give it a contemporary spin by one of China's best-known living artists. |
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| Saffronart auction shows resurgence in Indian art market / The Art Newspaper |
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| Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 |
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| The autumn auction at Saffronart on 9-10 September gave focus to a cautious resurgence in the Indian art market. The Mumbai-based online auction sold 77% of 95 lots, with 34 passing high estimate. |
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| The High Life / Art + Auction |
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| Monday, Aug 17, 2009 |
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| Bob and Nancy Magoon have cultivated an eye-popping collection of contemporary art in their Rocky Mountain residence. In a corner of Bob and Nancy Magoon's expansive living room in Aspen, Colorado, is a "portrait" of the couple. |
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| Big Daddy and his awkward sons-in-law / The Economist |
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| Monday, Aug 17, 2009 |
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| WIDELY known as Micky, Mitchell Wolfson, aged 69, is a lifelong collector who says he is still at it "big time". This is no overstatement. So far he has acquired some 250,000 objects of decorative or propaganda art. |
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| Forbes Family Sale / The Art Newspaper |
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| Monday, Aug 17, 2009 |
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| LONDON. The Forbes family, the publishers of the Forbes magazine stable, are selling a cache of 38 Victorian pictures valued at GBP 7.9m. The sales are being made through the Fine Art Society (FAS). |
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