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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, October 05, 2009
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 | Deaccession Decried: Heade sale swirls with controversy
The St. Augustine Record - October 4th, 2009 22:43
St. AUGUSTINE, FLA. - The story of the Martin Johnson Heade sale twists and turns with claims and counter-claims, charges and counter-charges. The St. Augustine Historical Society's collection contained 24 oil sketches, the artist's preliminary drawings for some finished works. They reportedly went for $3 million in a private sale to an art dealer. At least one other dealer is irked...Read more | |
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 | Nan Tull: Sensuously blending nature, abstraction
Boston Globe 2 - October 3rd, 2009 16:53
FRAMINGHAM, MA. - Nan Tull’s 25-year retrospective at the Danforth Museum of Art begins at a dark moment for her. In 1983, her life was wracked with personal loss and illness that required months of recovery. Friends brought her amaryllis plants as get-well offerings, but the heating unit in her studio didn’t work, and they died. The artist set to work... Read more | |
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 | Reclaimed Old Masters: Art from largest restitution in Netherlands on display
My San Antonio - October 4th, 2009 23:09
SAN ANTONIO - Part of Adolf Hitler's vision for the Third Reich was the Fuhrermuseum, which would be the centerpiece of a cultural district in Linz, Austria, a spectacular storehouse of the world's art. To fill his museum, Hitler directed his men to plunder millions of works of art from conquered countries. The incredible Goudstikker Gallery in Amsterdam was ransacked. A grouping of 45 important works, mostly Old Masters, restituted to the gallery's heirs goes on exhibit at the ...Read more | |
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 | Dinosaur Auction: Some record prices, but 'Samson' unsold
- October 4th, 2009 23:40
LAS VEGAS - “Samson,” the giant Tyrannosaurus Rex that has been on display at the Venetian for the last two weeks, wasn’t sold at Saturday’s auction, as was planned. The auction still sold more than $1.7 million worth of dinosaur fossils and set world records. And Samson could have a new owner soon. According to auctioneer Bonhams & Butterfields, the tyrannosaurus got a final high bid of $3.6 million at the auction, short of the minimum price set by its owner, but ...Read more | |
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 | Artist Talk with Dylan Graham, Shown in DOUBLE DUTCH
Release Date: 11 October 2009
Dylan Graham's paper cutouts are monochromatic two-dimensional works made by delicately cutting paper down to minute details. The depictions are generally of dramatic global events seen from both a personal perspective as well as from within a historic-cultural context. The artist ...Read more | |
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