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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, August 25, 2014

'The Blue Rigi, Sunrise', by JMW Turner (1842)

Landscape Masters Turner and Constable Returned to Rivalry in Concurrent Exhibitions
The Guardian - August 24th, 2014 00:00

The most spectacular artistic rivalry in British history will be revived in September when blockbuster exhibitions by two of the nation's most renowned painters pitch them into direct competition, just as they were in their lifetimes two centuries ago...

"Amour et Psyché II," supposedly by Rodin, is the subject of a legal dispute.

Connecticut Collector Alleges Fraud Over Sculpture Sale
CT Post - August 24th, 2014 00:00

A Greenwich, CT., art collector is again taking legal action against a Manhattan art dealer with new claims of fraud and charges of racketeering.

Grant Wood's Iconic "American Gothic" Will Travel to Cincinnati for Exhibition
Release Date: 24 August 2014
American Gothic, the famous American Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, will be on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum for the first time from Aug. 30 through Nov. 16, 2014. The masterpiece will join Wood’s Daughters of Revolution in the exhibition, "Conversations around American Gothic." ...

Getty Museum Names Two New Curators
Release Date: 24 August 2014
Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, has announced the appointment of two new senior curators at the Getty Museum. Dr. Davide Gasparotto, director of the Galleria Estense in Modena, Italy, will become Senior Curator of Paintings, and Dr. Jeffrey B. Spier, an independent scholar ...

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	Landmark Needlework Exhibition to Open at Morven Museum & Garden on October 3, 2014 Release Date: 22 August 2014 "Hail Specimen of Female Art! New Jersey Schoolgirl Needlework, 1726-1860" will focus on the important contribution of New Jersey in the creation of schoolgirl needlework in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. With 151 works on view, the curators have taken the first survey of schoolgirl ... Read more

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