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The new James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. (Photo by Travis Fullerton, © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)$150 million expansion illuminates VMFA collections
Daily Press - May 5th, 2010 13:52
The venerable Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has added 165,000-square-feet in order to properly display its immense holdings.  Emerging from the vaults to new galleries will be the museum's Pre-Colombian and Native American collections. Permanent collection galleries will increase 50% in size while exhibition space is doubled. Director Alex Nyerges says the cohesive new space, desgined by London-based American architect Rick Mather and his associate Peter Culley, will help re-position ...

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A pair of Chinese Imperial jade elephants. Photo: Woolley & Wallis via Bloomberg
Chinese collectors are expected to bid as much as 2 million pounds ($3.03 million) for a pair of 18th-century green jade elephants which originally adorned a throne room of the Emperor ...
Cover of the Magritte monograph.
A new edition of Magritte, the masterful monograph on Rene Magritte by the late David Sylvester, an expert on the great Surrealist, will be republished by Abrams / Fonds Mercator after a ...
Discovery from the 10th century Chinese shipwreck. (AFP)
No bidders registered for an Indonesian auction of more than 270,000 treasures recovered from a 10th-century Chinese shipwreck. A $16 million deposit was required of bidders. The sale was ...
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Norman Rockwell at Fuller'sFine Art Auction including Art Glass, Ceramics and Decorative Arts
May 8, 2010
Fuller's Fine Art Auctions
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Rigaud Benoit (Haitian, 1911-1986) Nativity, c. 1950. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000HAITIAN STUDY FROM NOW DESTROYED PORT-AU-PRINCE CATHEDRAL MURAL A POIGNANT ADDITION TO BONHAMS MODERN, CONTEMPORARY AND LATIN AMERICAN ART AUCTION THIS MAY
Release Date: 04 May 2010
A painting, contemporaneously taken from an important 1950 Port-au-Prince religious mural lost in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, is being offered for sale at Bonhams in New York on May 11 during the inaugural bi-coastal Modern, Contemporary and Latin American Art auction. The oil on masonite painting ...

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