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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Eli Broad's new museum may be in Downtown L.A.
Blog Downtown - January 25th, 2010 23:07

First reported to be headed to Beverly Hills, the planned Broad Art Museum has also been linked to Santa Monica and other sites. Now Downtown may be the location--on a parcel adjacent to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, across Grand Avenue from MOCA, the institution that billionaire Broad pledged $30-million. The new museum will house Broad's 2,000-piece contemporary art collection.

Crackdown on sarcophagus smugglers
Bloomberg - January 25th, 2010 22:50

Cyprus police arrested smugglers trying to sell antiquities stolen from the east Mediterranean island. The illicit trade in antiquities is “a real issue” in Cyprus and the country is examining ways to protect artifacts, including upgrading security at museums and archaeological sites. Police snagged 11 people for stealing artifacts such as a gold sarcophagus from the Bronze Age.

Pablo Picasso, The Actor, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Visitor tears Picasso at the Met
Christian Science Monitor - January 25th, 2010 22:12

Last Friday, a visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art lost her balance and fell into Pablo Picasso's "The Actor," a nearly 6-foot tall painting valued at over $130 million. Immediately, the museum whisked the dented and torn painting away to the conservation dept. to assess the damage. Next up, painstaking restoration work that "makes eye surgery look easy." Read how the Met will fix it...

Christie's to sell huge, Hearst-owned Old Master painting
Luxist - January 25th, 2010 22:44

On Jan. 27, Christie's New York will offer Le Pont Sur Le Torrent, painted in the mid-1780s by Hubert Robert, measuring over 20 feet wide by 13 feet high, with an estimate of $2 million - $3 million. Originally commissioned by the Duc de Luynes for the dining room of his mansion in Paris, in 1925 it was acquired at auction by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. The awe-inspiring artwork has not been seen in public in more than 50 years.

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