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Alexander McQueen (British, 1969–2010).  Ensemble, Widows of Culloden, autumn/winter 2006–7.  Dress of McQueen wool tartan; top of nude silk net appliquéd with black lace; underskirt of cream silk tulle.  Courtesy of Alexander McQueen.  Photograph © Sølve Sundsbø / Art + Commerce Metropolitan Museum's Alexander McQueen retrospective among Top 10 most visited shows
Release Date: 08 August 2011
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that the exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, which closed last Sunday at midnight, attracted 661,509 visitors during its run from May 4 to August 7, placing it among the Museum’s top 10 most visited exhibitions. Joining other blockbusters ...

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Al Braithwaite, Capsule (detail), 2011.  Maple, glass, brass, super 130s pinstripe, paper, print, wax, pigment, 61.5 x 141.8 x 7.1 cm.  Courtesy the artist and Leila Heller Gallery
  “Art is the one place for us to go, for all this stuff to be shored up. The stuff of 9/11 is too big to carry in silence. It has to be summoned up and detoxified. To have the ...
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14-Karat Yellow-Gold and Diamond Rose Bud 'En Tremblant' Brooch, Robert Altman Inc.  ($1,200-$1,800) Jewelry, Coins & Watches
September 17, 2011
Weschler's
Washington, DC
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Passing Parade by Frank Cardozo Nicholas Men and the Sea, works by Frank Cardozo Nicholas at Cape Cod Museum of Art
Release Date: 08 August 2011
  The works of Frank Cardozo Nicholas (1922 – 2003), an accomplished fine artist who spent his last 30 years living and painting on Cape Cod, will be on exhibition in  Men and the Sea, at the Cape Cod Museum of September 10 – November 27. This is the first solo museum exhibit of ...

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