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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, July 1, 2010

Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid, ca. 1660. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.

Vermeer's The Milkmaid helps push Met attendance to 5.24 million
ArtfixDaily Staff - June 30th, 2010 22:51

In the midst of a recession economy, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York attracted 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ended June 30. This is the first year since 2001 that attendance at the Metropolitan has exceeded five million. Among the 30 exhibitions presented at the museum during the past year was Vermeer's Masterpiece The Milkmaid (September 10-November 29, 2009) which lured in 329,446 visitors to see the special loan of one of Vermeer's most admired ...

View of the five-acre Montecito, Calif., estate listed at $42.5 million by Suzanne Perkins, Sotheby's International Realty.

$42.5 million Montecito estate on the market

A sumptuous reinterpretation of Southern vernacular architecture has been built on spec in the foothills of Montecito, California. Overlooking a wide swath of the Pacific on about 5 acres, ...

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	Historic South Carolina Dueling Pistols Double Auction Expectation at Bonhams & Butterfields in June Release Date: 30 June 2010 Antique arms and armor collectors dueled at auction on Monday, June 28, 2010 in San Francisco for a piece of South Carolina history – the successful bidder paying nearly $50,000 (twice the estimate) for a pair of important dueling pistols formerly owned by a South Carolina land-owner ... Read more

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