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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Carlos Slim's shimmering new art palace
Bloomberg - January 26th, 2010 20:44

Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim, whose estimated net worth of $59 billion makes him one of the world's richest people, is making waves with a bold new art museum planned in Mexico City. His art collection of 66,000 pieces, from 15th-c. European masters to a bounty of Rodin sculptures, will go on display in an undulating, nuclear reactor-shaped aluminum building described as "digital baroque" style...

Must-see: Hudson River School splendor reinstalled in Hartford
Wall Street Journal - January 26th, 2010 23:03

The majestic landscape paintings of the 19th-century Hudson River School include symbolic images of the wilderness painted while America pursued its "manifest destiny" to expand westward. After a renovation of its Huntington Galleries, Connecticut's Wadsworth Atheneum is displaying its knock-out collection of works by Hudson River School painters such as Albert Bierstadt who so expertly captured the dramatic scenery of California's then little-known Yosemite...

The Art of Wayne Thiebaud: America’s vox populi
Stark Silver Creek - January 26th, 2010 23:47

The retrospective exhibition "Wayne Thiebaud: Seventy Years of Painting," on view February 16 through July 4, 2010, at California's San Jose Museum of Art, presents 103 paintings and drawings that are a slice of Americana. Many of Thiebaud's distinctive, lusciously painted still-lifes of food---cakes!---will be mixed with his more recent Southern California beach landscapes and mid-career urban scenes.

The American Antiques Show delivers on the unique
Shelter Pop - January 26th, 2010 17:45

Last weekend, New York's The American Antiques Show offered up some folk art gems, including an exquisite and very rare "sun burst" American quilt from about 1830 at the booth of Massachusetts dealer Colette Donovan. Boston dealer Stephen Score had a fanciful birdcage, c. 1840, in original paint. A circa 1880 camel trade figure was a highlight at Judith and James Milne's stand...

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