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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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Oakland Museum of Art reopens May 1.Oakland Museum interprets the California experience in art
San Francisco Chronicle - April 12th, 2010 18:23
To better engage its visitors, California's Oakland Museum of Art has mixed up the traditional manner of art display, replacing chronological order with high-interest thematic groupings. Re-opening May 1 after a two-year renovation, the museum, for example, has a California landscape section which includes a topographical map of the high Sierra, a 1945 Ansel Adams print of a winter Sierra sunrise, and the 1858 Antoine Claveau painting "Falls, Yosemite." You can put headphones on ...

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A 10-fold screen featuring peonies, probably late 18th century, is now on display through June 20 at the National Museum of Korea, Yongsan, Seoul. / Photo Courtesy of National Museum of Korea via Korea Times
A massive, 10-panel Korean screen, probably late 18th-century, is rare for its continuously painted band of peonies in full bloom. The screen is part of an exhibition at the National ...
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Handlers took away artwork by renowned American painters from Berry-Hill Galleries last Tuesday after its owners defaulted on a $9.5 million loan, the Wall Street Journal reported. Boxes ...
Edvard Munch (1863-1945) Fertility, oil on canvas. Estimate: $25,000,000 - 35,000,000
The May and June sales at the major auction houses will be closely watched to see if the art market is truly rebounding from the credit crisis-induced slump. Following the winter surprise ...
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Sarah Barstow, Woodland Interior, 1865Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School
May 2 - October 31, 2010
Thomas Cole Historic Site
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SOFA New York 2010 is April 16-19 at the Park Avenue Armory.PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF ART AND DESIGN SCULPTURE OBJECTS &: FUNCTIONAL ART FAIR APRIL 16-19 AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Release Date: 08 April 2010
  Contemporary decorative art and design in all its unique forms and manifestations takes front and center stage at the annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA NEW YORK) on Friday, April 16 - Monday, April 19 at the Park Avenue Armory, between 66th and 67th Streets in ...

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