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The American Folk Art MuseumMuseums promote "Social Harmony" with free admission
About - May 18th, 2010 01:47
May 18 is International Museum Day. The theme this year is "Social Harmony." Visit a local museum today, many are waiving admission fees, but could still use a donation. In New York City, the American Folk Art Museum, the Asia Society and The Frick Collection are offering free admission. The Philadelphia Museum of Art and its historic homes in Fairmount Park are not charging. If you miss out today, there is Museum Day each September, promoted by the Smithsonian.

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The SFMOMA gala called for "creative attire." London art dealer Ivor Braka (left), in Alice Cooperesque eye makeup, with gallerist John Berggruen.
Nearly 1,200 glittering guests feted the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's first seventy-five years on Friday. The art museum hosted 550 gallerists, museum directors, artists and ...
Albert Bierstadt's "Lake at Franconia Notch, White Mountains," ca. 1860s, oil on canvas, on view at the Frick Art Museum in Pennsylvania.
Although known for their large-scale landscapes, Hudson River School artists created many alluring smaller pictures for the interiors of Victorian-era homes. These petite views of nature ...
Caravaggio's "Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence" was stolen from the San Lorenzo oratory, Palermo, in 1969.
Forty years ago, a manger scene, depicting Mary and baby Jesus flanked by saints, painted in 1609 by Caravaggio, was swiped from a Sicilian chapel. Extroart, an art recovery organization ...
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A Sioux fully-beaded buckskin dress (est. $40/60,000) will be offered by Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco on 7 June 2010 during the summer Native American Art auction. Imaginatively decorated with a profusion of geometric configurations - mostly triangle and diamond forms - the dress is 29-inches in length... Photo Credit: Courtesy Bonhams & Butterfields Native American Art Auction
June 7, 2010
Bonhams & Butterfields
San Francisco, California
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Thomas Hart Benton "The Twist, 1964"Debra Force Unveils New Gallery Space
Release Date: 18 May 2010
American art gallery Debra Force Fine Art announces its new location at 13 East 69th Street, Suite 4F.  The bi-level space showcases both 19th and 20th century American art movements from the Hudson River School to American Modernism. “Having passed the Gallery’s eleventh ...

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