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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, December 28, 2009
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 | WaPo's Blake Gopnik picks the Best of the Decade in Art
Washington Post - December 27th, 2009 20:23
Exhibitions on artists Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, and Correggio, as well as Renaissance tapestries and Ottoman costumes, top the Washington Post critic's list. The latest trend: Museums have slowly been heading away from mega-shows and back toward the mega-art they already own and used to focus on.Read more | |
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 | Ex-Brooklyn Museum manager swiped $620,000
NY Daily News - December 27th, 2009 20:13
A former Brooklyn Museum manager admitted Wednesday he stole more than $620,000 by cutting checks to phantom employees. Dwight Newton was able to carry out the scheme undetected for more than three years while in charge of payroll and accounting at the venerable institution. Under the plea agreement, Newton must repay the museum every penny he stole. He faces 63 months in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for wire fraud when he's sentenced in April...
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 | Cézanne and American Modernism opens in Baltimore this February
Art Daily - December 27th, 2009 20:06
The Baltimore Museum of Art’s new exhibition, Cézanne and American Modernism, brings together 16 dazzling landscapes, still lifes, and portraits by the French master with more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and photographs by artists such as Max Weber, Alfred Stieglitz, and Marsden Hartley to show Cézanne’s profound impact on American artists at the beginning of the 20th-century. The transformative impact of Cézanne’s painting is vividly illustrated by ...Read more | |
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 | Found: the clue to van Gogh’s ear
Times Online - December 27th, 2009 19:59
The mystery behind the most famous mutilation in art history may finally have been solved. A scholar has found evidence that a distraught Vincent van Gogh slashed his ear after learning that his brother, Theo, on whom he depended financially and emotionally, was about to get married. Martin Bailey, who has written a book on van Gogh and curated two exhibitions of his work, devised his theory after meticulous detective work on a letter in a painting...Read more | |
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