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Hitler's right hand man, Goering, checks out some toys.A Nazi's Hoard in New Catalog of Looted Art
Bloomberg - August 3rd, 2009 02:44
Quantity took priority over quality in Hermann Goering’s sprawling art collection, much of it plundered from Jews. His gluttony for oil canvases becomes clear in Nancy Yeide’s “Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection,” the first comprehensive catalog of ...

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Skinner's Country Americana sale is Aug. 9A bumper crop of country Americana at Skinner's, Aug. 9
Auction Central News - August 3rd, 2009 03:05
(Marlborough, Mass.) Skinner's 787-lot sale featuring American country furniture and decorative arts, folk art, paintings, rare clocks, American textiles, needlework and even early cast-iron banks, will take place on Sunday, Aug. 9, at the company's spacious new gallery in Marlborough, ...

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New Orleans Auction, St. Charles Gallery, Inc. recently auctioned William Woodward (American/New Orleans, 1859-1939) "Sunlit View of the Mission Santa Barbara, California", 1926, oil on canvas board, signed and dated lower left "W. Woodward '26", frame retains label "Francis Hendricks Co., Inc., Syracuse, New York", 13-3/4" x 19-7/8". Presented in a giltwood frame.State of the Art
J.C. Carlson
Jazz Age Artists flocked to Santa Barbara
Before Hollywood claimed the role of movie-making capital, Santa Barbara, California, ninety miles north of Los Angeles, was the epicenter of the burgeoning film industry. Surrounded by picturesque mountains, a sparkling ocean, and lovely streets lined with various revival-style architecture, ...

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"Beauty on the Beach" at the WolfsoninanAt the Wolfsonian, Life's a Beach
UnBeige Mediabistro - July 30th, 2009 20:21
 The Wolfsonian, the wonderfully eclectic Miami institution, didn't have to look far for the inspiration behind its new summer exhibitions, both of which center around the beach (just a few blocks away). Curated by The Wolfsonian's Marianne Lamonaca, "Beauty on the Beach: A ...

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Image Eric Owen Moss wants to piece together L.A.'s fragments
LA Times Arts - August 2nd, 2009 07:00
(Los Angeles) The architect hopes his latest projects will help bring the city closer to a new vision. The neighborhood around the office of Eric Owen Moss feels first like Mayberry, then a bit like "Killer of Sheep." And just after the block of tree-shaded single family homes runs into ...

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Shahnama (The Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1525–30; Safavid period (1501-1722) Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, Author; Qasim, son of 'Ali, Artist (attributed to); Aqa Mirak, (supervised by) Made in Tabriz, Iran. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 1970 (1970.301Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Fund New Gallery for Persian Art at Metropolitan Museum
Release Date: 21 July 2009
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that a new gallery dedicated to Safavid and Later Persian Art (1500-1924) has been designated the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Gallery. It is one of a suite of exhibition spaces—the Galleries for the Arts of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, ...

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