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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, March 19, 2013

FBI Says Thieves Identified in Gardner Museum Heist; Artwork Still Missing
ArtfixDaily Staff - March 18th, 2013 14:49

In Boston on March 18, law enforcement officials announced that they have identified the perpetrators in the $500 million art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.

Daniel Huntington (1816-1906), The Atlantic Cable Projectors, 1895. Oil in canvas, 87 x 108 ¼ in.

Princeton University Art Museum Presents Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy and American Portraiture
Release Date: 15 January 2013
Exhibition explores the formation and evolution of an American business aesthetic. The portrait collection of the New York Chamber of Commerce, assembled over a 200-year period beginning in 1772, captured with aesthetic and symbolic power the giants of American business—and became one of the ...

Simon Lee Gallery, Marnie Weber, Log Lady & Dirty Bunny, 2009. Mixed media, 3 parts, Dirty Bunny: 142.2cmH x 73.7xmW x 88.9cmD Log Lady: 39.4cmH x 185.4cm W x 61cmD Rodent: 16.5cmH x 48.6cmW x 22.2cmD. Courtesy the artist and Simon Lee Gallery

Art Basel Hong Kong Announces Encounters: 17 Ambitious, Largescale Projects
Release Date: 18 March 2013
Art Basel announced today the 17 artworks to be presented within the Encounters sector in Hong Kong, dedicated to showing large-scale sculptural installations by leading artists from around the world. Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and Curator of the ...

Toshio Shibata, Okawa Village, Tosa County, Kochi Prefecture, 2007. Courtesy of the artist. © Toshio Shibata.

Peabody Essex Museum Debuts New Works by Celebrated Japanese Photographer
Release Date: 18 March 2013
Starting this April, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) will show new and seldom seen works by one of Japan’s visionary landscape photographers. Since the early 1980s, Toshio Shibata has turned his lens on the roads, dams and bridges of Japan to create visually striking images highlighting the ...

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	Susanna J. Fichera exhibiting at AD20/21 this weekend March 20-24, 2013 AD20/21 Boston, Massachusetts Read more

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	BONHAMS TO SELL MOST IMPORTANT HISTORIC GRAND PRIX RACING CAR Release Date: 18 March 2013 This evening, at its New Bond Street saleroom, Bonhams unveiled an incredibly important motor car that will be offered for auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Friday 12 July. The car will become the most important historic Grand Prix racing car ever entered into public auction. ... Read more

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