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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches 'Public Art Challenge'

Bloomberg Philanthropies is launching a new program to support temporary public art projects that engage communities, enhance creativity and enrich the vibrancy of cities. Bloomberg ...

Toledo Museum of Art to Return Ganesha Sculpture to India

The Toledo Museum of Art announced earlier this month that it will return a nearly 1,000-year- old bronze sculpture of the Hindu god Ganesha to the Government of India. The Ganesha was ...

Experts Claim Fifty Percent of Artwork on the Market is Fake

Scientists at the Fine Arts Experts Institute (FAEI) in Geneva say that 70 to 90 percent of the artwork that they analyze is fake. More than half of artworks circulating on the market are either forgeries or misattributed contend some authorities...

Henri Rousseau Painting Disappears From German Museum

Officials say they have no leads in the theft of a Henri Rousseau painting from the Charlotte Zander Museum in Germany.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Two Women in a Boat, 1912 Lithograph One of four known impressions

International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair

With ninety international fine print galleries offering a wide spectrum of material spanning five centuries, The ...

Jan Stuart Appointed First Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art at Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries

Jan Stuart, currently Keeper of Asia at the British Museum, will return to the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art, on Nov. 3 to ...

Henry Moore, Working Model for Reclining Figure: Bone Skirt, 1977-1979 (est. $600,000 – 800,000) © The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2014 / www.henry-moore.org*

Henry Moore Sculptures from Lauren Bacall Estate at Auction

The Impressionist & Modern Art auction on November 4 at Bonhams New York will be headlined by two bronze sculptures by modern British artist, Henry Moore (1898-1986), offered on ...