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"Love among the Ruins" by Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones sold for a record 14.8 million pounds ($22.3 million) at Christie's in London.

Burne-Jones' 'Love Among Ruins' Rises to $22 Million in Record-Setting London Sales
ArtfixDaily Staff - July 11th, 2013 13:59

Rediscovered Victorian paintings and ethereal moonlit scenes proved popular with bidders at London auctions this week. A watercolor by Edward Burne-Jones sold at Christie's on Thursday for 14.8 million pounds ($22.3 million), a record-setting price at auction for a Pre-Raphaelite artwork.

National Arts Club, at 15 Gramercy Park (South), Manhattan, New York

National Arts Club Ex-Director to Pay Near $1 Million Settlement
ArtfixDaily Staff - July 11th, 2013 10:30

O. Aldon James, the ousted head of the prestigious National Arts Club in Manhattan, will pay $950,000 in settlement claims for his mismanagement of the institution. New York officials say that James used the club's resources to...

"Head of a Goddess," 350-300 BC. is among 150 works in "Sicily: Between Greece and Rome," at the Getty Museum. The exhibit will not travel to the Cleveland Museum of Art as planned.

Sicily Suddenly Cancels Traveling Exhibition of Antiquities
Plain Dealer - July 11th, 2013 09:56

A major traveling exhibition of ancient treasures has been cancelled on mid-tour after Sicilian cultural authorities decided the extended loans were hurting their tourist economy. Now on view at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the exhibition...

DeCordova announces new Chief Curator
Release Date: 10 July 2013
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Gross as deCordova’s new Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator. Gross is presently Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, where she ...

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