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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Hong Kong is Wine Hub: Mainland Chinese buyers increase 200%
Luxist - October 5th, 2009 18:31

HONG KONG - Art and dinosaurs may not be moving at auction, but in a tough market, you can count on people drinking. Sotheby's nearly sold out its entire auction in Hong Kong Saturday, raking in HK$61.5 million (US$7.9 million) from 1,010 lots offered from American private collections. A 6-liter bottle of Chateau Petrus 1982 sold for US$94,000, setting a record. A mere 1 percent of the lots went to buyers who were not Asian.

Monets on the Move: Barnes Foundation to unveil new museum plans
Philadelphia Inquirer - October 5th, 2009 17:54

PHILADELPHIA - Nine years after the Barnes Foundation stunned the art world with a high-risk proposal to escape its litigious neighbors in suburban Merion by moving its renowned collection of Impressionist art to Philadelphia, it is getting ready to reveal its most closely guarded secret: what its new home will look like. A Wednesday hearing will effectively be a public coming-out for the long-awaited $200 million project...

He's Making a List: Umberto Eco signs on as Louvre's guest curator
Unbeige - October 5th, 2009 17:31

PARIS - Umberto Eco, the famous Italian writer/satirist/professor/political pundit, has signed on as a new guest curator at the Louvre. For the next few months, Eco will be given free reign to create "art exhibits, concerts, and conferences." Eco has decided that the thing he'd like to explore is "the list." For example, one event is a conference on 16th century Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, whose tableaux of multitudes of peasants can be seen as a kind of ...

Young Archer Gets an Audience: The Met will have early Michelangelo work
Associated Press - October 5th, 2009 17:36

NEW YORK (AP) -- A marble statue widely attributed to Michelangelo is being loaned to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art by the French government. The "Young Archer" is not traveling far; it's making its way across Fifth Avenue from the cultural services office of the French Embassy....

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