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Ai Weiwei at his exhibition "Sunflower Seeds," a work consisting of 100 million hand-painted porcelain seeds, currently installed at the Tate Modern in London.

Museum directors push petition to free Ai Weiwei
Change.org - April 14th, 2011 01:29

On April 3, prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was seized by government agents when he tried to board a plane in Beijing. His charge is unspecified "economic crimes," according to the Chinese government. Change.org is circulating a petition started by 12 leading figures in the international art world which calls for the Chinese government to free Ai Weiwei. The directors of the Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tate Museum, where Ai is currently showing a commissioned ...

PETR PETROVICH VERESHCHAGIN, 1836-1886, VIEW OF ST. PETERSBURG, FROM THE COLLECTION OF MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV.

Barberi table, Baryshnikov's painting lead Sotheby's Russian sale
Bloomberg - April 14th, 2011 02:23

A two-part auction of Russian paintings and works of art at Sotheby's in New York this week brought $16.1 million, slightly above its high presale estimate of $15.8 million. Buyers pursued the highest-quality lots, including a micro-mosaic table made by Italy’s Barberi workshop for the Russian court in the early 1830s which went for nearly $2 million (with commissions), well above a presale low estimate of $400,000. More than thirty percent of lots failed to attract buyers. Among the ...

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Les enfants et les jouets. Oil on board, painted in spring 1901. Estimate: US$5.5 – 7.5 million.

EARLY PICASSO PAINTED DURING THE ARTIST’S FIRST FLUSH OF PARISIAN SUCCESS TO HIGHLIGHT MAY 4 EVENING SALE AT CHRISTIE’S NEW YORK
Release Date: 14 April 2011
Christie’s is proud to announce a special highlight of its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 4 May: Les enfants et les jouets, an extraordinary work by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) painted in the spring of 1901 when the artist was only 19 years old and in his first flush of ...

George Rickey, No title (Single line). 1964 Kinetic sculpture. Stainless steel, smoothed 22,5 x 47 x 6,5 cm (8.8 x 18.5 x 2.5 in) Estimate: € 10.000-15.000.

George Rickey and the Interaction of Forces
Release Date: 05 April 2011
The stable and reliable market situation will attract customers just as much as the the range of top-class offerings that Robert Ketterer will come up with in his art auction of POST WAR/ Contemporary Art in Munich on May 7: George Rickey provides one of the top objects. With his kinetic sculpture ...

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