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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Eclaireurs attaqués par un tigre, 1904, by Henri Rousseau.

Battle over the Barnes bubbles up again
AP - August 2nd, 2011 21:33

With its new building scheduled to open in Philadelphia next spring, the Barnes Foundation has met another challenge to its impending move from suburban Lower Merion, Penn. On Monday, Judge Stanley Ott presided over a hearing requested by...

Sotheby's locks out art handlers, picketing ensues
Wall Street Journal - August 2nd, 2011 20:08

Art handlers locked out by Sotheby's over a contract dipsute picketed the Upper East Side auction house early this week. The contract between the handlers' union, Teamsters Local 814, and the auction house's Manhattan headquarters ended in July...

A Figurine of a dog made of bronze with a gold collar attributed to Tutankhamun's tomb, which was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings.

Met Museum to return 19 antiquities to Egpyt
AP - August 2nd, 2011 22:19

Nineteen artifacts excavated from the tomb of boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun will be returned to Egypt next week after residing for more than 50 years at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, according to Egypt's antiquities authority.

Cover of Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum

"Chasing Aphrodite" reveals the Getty's illicit treasure-buying
The National - August 1st, 2011 01:00

In recent years, the Getty Museum has given back some of its finest pieces of classical art to Italy. Museums worldwide have followed suit. The reason for this voluntary submission of an art trove?

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	HANK PITCHER: TIDAL FORCE Release Date: 02 June 2011 SULLIVAN GOSS – An American Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition called HANK PITCHER: TIDAL FORCE, their first exhibition in three years for celebrated West Coast painter Hank Pitcher. Painting at sites that are difficult to access, Pitcher’s new exhibition ... Read more

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