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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Rose gold oval ring surrounded by a blue enamel border containing ten small and two large diamonds enclosed in a border of natural split pearls, ca. 1790. Brown left eye. Purchased from Edith Weber, New York. Dimensions: 3⁄4 × 1 1⁄4 × 7⁄8 in.

The Birmingham Museum of Art Premiers The Look of Love
Release Date: 07 February 2012
The Birmingham Museum of Art debuts The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection, the first major exhibition of lover's eye jewelry, on display from February 7, 2012 to June 10, 2012. Exquisite in craftsmanship, unique in detail, and few in number, lover's eye miniatures are ...

Statuette of Aphrodite emerging from the sea, Greek or Roman, 1st century BC or 1st century AD.

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love Exhibition Tours the U.S.
ArtfixDaily Staff - February 7th, 2012 17:05

Aphrodite may be the best known of all the classical Greco-Roman goddesses, recognized for her beauty, and as symbol of love and lust. Her allure has been spoken of for centuries; the Aphrodite of Knidos sculpted by Praxiteles in the 4th century B.C. was the first life-size female nude, both shocking and titillating its contemporary viewers. Currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...

Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, ca. 1948.

Dorothea Tanning, Surrealist Artist, Remembered
ArtfixDaily Staff - February 6th, 2012 15:56

American artist Dorothea Tanning, prominent member of the Surrealist movement, passed away peacefully at her home in New York City at the age of 101 on January 31st. A late addition to the Surrealist movement, Tanning had outlived all of her contemporaries. She was well known for her fantastical paintings that trawled the depths of the human subconscious...

Acclaimed Artist Faith Ringgold’s Politically Charged 1960s Paintings to be Presented at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Release Date: 06 February 2012
Although Faith Ringgold is best known as the originator of the African-American story quilt revival that began in the 1970s, it is her pointed political paintings of the 1960s that are the focus of “American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s,” on view at the Spelman ...

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	Highlights of the AIPAD Photography Show New York Opening in March Release Date: 07 February 2012 The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) will hold the 32nd edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the world’s most important annual photography events, March 29 – April 1, 2012, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Seventy-five of the ... Read more

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