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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, August 11, 2011

In this photo provided by Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O'Keeffe archive, Portrait with Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz by automobile at Lake George, N.Y.

Love letters of O'Keeffe, Stieglitz exposed in new book
Albuquerqe Journal - August 10th, 2011 18:58

When Albert Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe met in 1916, he was 52 and already considered the nucleus of the New York art world. She was an unknown 28-year-old Texas art teacher. National Gallery of Art photography curator...

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.

Ai Weiwei returns to Twitter
ArtfixDaily Staff - August 11th, 2011 02:03

Artist Ai Weiwei denounced prison abuses via social media after being held for two months by Chinese authorities. He took to Twitter to protest the treatment of his friends dragged into his case and the detainment of activists.

Janis Joplin, San Francisco, 1968, archival inkjet print. Baron Wolman, born 1937.

Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock & Roll Photographs
Release Date: 11 August 2011
An artistic eye and a musical soul merge beautifully in the large-scale, stunning works to be displayed in Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock & Roll Photographs, an upcoming Columbus Museum exhibition that opens on December 10, 2011. The show will be on view through April 1, 2012, before ...

TAKASHI MURAKAMI: NIRVANA, 2001, offset lithograph on paper, ed. 300, 26 x 51 1/2 in. 66 x 130.8 cm..

TAKASHI MURAKAMI: Flowers, Nirvana and Kakai Kiki
Release Date: 10 August 2011
"If my art looks positive and cheerful, I would doubt my art was accepted in the contemporary art scene. My art is not Pop art. It is a record of the struggle of the discriminated people." - Takashi Murakami. TAKASHI MURAKAMI: FLOWERS, NIRVANA and KAKAI KIKI, an exhibition ...

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