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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, July 21, 2010

A 1906 pastoral scene by Henri Matisse stolen from the Modern Art Museum in Paris in May 2010.

Summer reading: "The Rembrandt Affair"
ArtfixDaily Staff - July 21st, 2010 06:00

Best-selling author Daniel Silva has crafted an entertaining new spy thriller based on the world's most shocking art heists. "The Rembrandt Affair" portrays art crime---a lucrative underground activity resulting in losses of at least $6 billion annually, according to the FBI---set against the backdrop of Iran seeking nuclear weapons. The tale spins around an "endearingly eccentric London art dealer," a murdered art restorer, a shady Swiss billionaire, and a spy on a ...

A record price of $722,000 for Ansel Adams was reached with "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park" from the Polaroid Collection at Sotheby's.

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	Lynette Roth Appointed as Harvard Art Museums’ Daimler-Benz Associate Curator Release Date: 20 July 2010 The Harvard Art Museums announce the appointment of Lynette Roth as Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, effective January 3, 2011. A specialist in German art of the early 20th century, Roth’s highly disciplined and innovative work in the academy and in the museum ... Read more

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