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The Hausburg Cabinet. Butchoff Antiques.

Get inside a cabinet of curiosities at The Getty or in London
ArtfixDaily Staff - May 26th, 2010 05:13

The newly-designed European sculpture and decorative arts galleries at The Getty Center in Los Angeles are arranged according to period and theme, incorporating paintings and two-dimensional works of art. One extraordinary piece can be viewed close-up in 3-D: A collector's cabinet from Augsburg, Germany. Beginning in the 17th century, European collectors used such lavish cabinets to gather items of natural, artistic, and intellectual interest, in the manner of a mini-museum. The ...

Crocker Tavern House is a Georgian-style gem for sale on Cape Cod.

Crocker Tavern House: A Colonial treasure for sale on Cape Cod

A superb example of 18th-century New England craftsmanship is on the market. Crocker Tavern House, a pre-Revolutionary War estate in seaside Barnstable, Massachusetts, is steeped in ...

Georges Dudognon Greta Garbo in the Club St. Germain ca. 1950s San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Members of Foto Forum, 2005.200 © Estate of Georges Dudognon

Tate Modern going global with acquisitions

A decade after its inception, Tate Modern has displayed some 880 new acquisitions, both gifts and purchases. In a press release, Britain's bastion of modern and contemporary art states ...

Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Flickr user Dom Dada

Whitney Museum will break ground downtown

After a quarter century of quibble, the vote was unanimous for the Whitney Museum to expand with a new building in the meatpacking district of Manhattan. On Tuesday afternoon the museum ...

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