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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, March 5, 2013

US Seizes Trove of Stieglitz and Weston Photographs
HuffPo - March 4th, 2013 21:59

U.S. authorities seized about 2,200 works by such influential 20th-century photographers as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Edward Weston before the collection was shipped to Spain. The massive trove is valued at $16 million.

Property from the Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Colonel John and Mrs. Mary Young, is this group of three jade archer's rings to be auctioned March 12 at Bonhams in San Francisco.

Tacoma Art Museum Auction of Chinese Items Upsets Donors
Seattle Times - March 4th, 2013 22:35

Donors to the Tacoma Art Museum have been stung by the auction of Chinese jades and robes gifted to the museum's collection. The Young family gave pieces in the 1970s that the museum has sold off, except for a few remaining items that are now slated for sale.

Detail of Matisse's "Reading Girl in White and Yellow," 1919, stolen from the Triton Foundation Collection during a special exhibition at the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Dutch Police Arrest Teenager in Connection to Art Heist
ArtfixDaily Staff - March 4th, 2013 22:55

A 19-year-old woman was arrested by Dutch police in connection to the art heist in Rotterdam last fall that netted seven artworks by the likes of Matisse, Gauguin, Picasso and Monet, among others.

The planes in Cuba ready for takeoff to Times Square.

Times Square Arts Presents Cuban Artist Esterio Segura's Installation Goodbye My Love, Opening March 8, 2013
Release Date: 04 March 2013
INSTALLATION BY CUBAN ARTIST ESTERIO SEGURA REFLECTS ON THE PAIN OF SAYING GOODBYE. Cuban artist Esterio Segura’s installation Goodbye My Love will be installed from March 8 to May 13, 2013, as part of Times Square Arts’ initiative to bring leading contemporary art in multiple forms to ...

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