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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Online auction site launches for rich and famous
Reuters - November 9th, 2009 15:09

Millionaires down on their luck now have an exclusive place to sell their Italian castles, diamond chess sets, and super-yachts. An Internet auction site devoted to the super-wealthy launched officially Monday. BillionaireXchange said it has already played a role in the sale or exchange of more than $180 million in assets during a 10-month test phase. The website aims to exploit a market niche between internet sales sites such as eBay and auction houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's ...

Exposing "The English Country House"
Luxist - November 9th, 2009 18:59

A stunning new book, The English Country House, by Mary Miers from Rizzoli is sourced from Country Life magazine's incredible archives. More than 400 images, mostly in color, highlight 62 houses encompassing a range of architectural styles spanning seven centuries beginning with the medieval Stokesay Castle, and also examining interior decoration, gardens, and landscapes. The focus is not on the world-famous palaces that have now become museums, but on private homes which Country Life has ...

Painting over history on the Berlin Wall
CBS - November 9th, 2009 18:43

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is this week. Part of the celebration has been the restoration of 105 wall paintings on this literal symbol of the Iron Curtain. The same 118 artists from 21 countries who created the paintings in 1990 will repaint their pictures in the world's longest open-air art gallery after replacement of the concrete surface of the Wall.

Photography's debt to Caravaggio
Guardian - November 9th, 2009 12:05

Caravaggio experimented with lighting effects in his paintings and used models from the street - two centuries before the great photographic pioneers. Whether it's in Cartier-Bresson's immediacy or Bill Brandt's sepulchral shadows, you catch hints of Caravaggio's intensely lit and passionately sensual world in the work of the most brilliant photographers. Of course this is no coincidence. Caravaggio was rediscovered because of the camera...

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