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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, July 28, 2009

SFMOMA Could Land Fisher's Modern Art Collection
Artinfo - July 27th, 2009 09:55

Though rumors haven't been confirmed, word is that a firehouse could become a SFMOMA extension and the new home for the much-lauded art collection of Gap founders Donald and Doris Fisher.

Karl Benjamin, F.S. #1, 1961 Oil on canvas Courtesy Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

'California Calling,' New Exhibit Features Left Coast Art
Santa Barbara Independent - July 27th, 2009 13:00

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art continues to express the distinctive vision and character of the California art scene with this important show of postwar works from the museum’s permanent collection and private collections in Santa Barbara. In an era of highly conceptualized group shows and ...

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	State of the Art J.C. Carlson Forbes' Top Billionaire Art Collectors Forbes revealed its list of "Top Billionaire Art Collectors" on Friday. Even with the world's wealthist folks losing 23% on average of their net worth last year, these collections made the cut with values ranging from $700 million to $2 billion for an array of fine art. View the ... Read more

A Wildfowler blackduck decoy is on the left and a low head pintail drake is on the right. These decoys as a lot only went for $500 at a 2003 Guyette and Schmidt auction. Photo courtesy of Guyette and Schmidt.

Factory Decoys Offer another Collecting Avenue
WorthPoint - July 27th, 2009 18:12

There are as many strategies to collecting decoys as there are decoys. For example, one can collect by area made, maker or species. One popular area of decoy collecting is the factory-made decoy. Factory decoys are those decoys commercially made by machine and advertised for sale in sporting ...

Mary McFadden
Wedding Dress from the "Collection Mongolia" 1999, worn with Mary's Tibetan emerald necklace with Macramé. Photographed in the Hall of Tzars, St. Petersburg, Russia, during a fashion show for the White Nights Festival. Photo by Sven Arnstein

'Mary McFadden: Goddesses' fuses fashion with fine art
Washington Post - July 26th, 2009 04:00

Mary McFadden, now 70 and a longtime force in American fashion, has collected fantastic art from all around the world, from every moment in history. She's got a stunning crown from China, encrusted with gold dragons and at least a thousand years old. She's got a golden funerary mask made ...

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	Bonhams to sell sponsorship to the soundtrack of New Year Release Date: 27 July 2009 Patronage of Robert Burns’s original manuscript and lyrics to Auld Lang Syne go under the hammer at 10th Made in Scotland Sale A bidder at Bonhams annual Made in Scotland Sale, held in conjunction with the National Trust for Scotland (18-21 August), will have the unique opportunity to ... Read more

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