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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, October 22, 2009
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 | Flawless: Annenberg diamond fetches $7.7 million
Huffington post - October 21st, 2009 23:41
A square, 32.01-carat emerald-cut diamond ring that billionaire philanthropist Leonore Annenberg bought for her 90th birthday sold for $7.7 million at Christie's on Wednesday. About the size of a walnut, the flawless, colorless diamond is flanked by two pear-shaped diamonds. Annenberg died in March at the age of 91. She served as U.S. chief of protocol during President Ronald Reagan's first term – a position that carried the rank of ambassador. Her husband, Walter Annenberg, a ...Read more | |
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 | New Documentary: "Rembrandt J'Accuse" spins tales of murder, intrigue
New York Times - October 21st, 2009 15:38
“One must always apologize for talking about painting,” the French poet Paul Valéry wrote. To which, I suspect, the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway would say, “Nonsense.” In “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse,” his generally absorbing feature-length documentary on the mysteries of the Rembrandt painting “The Night Watch,” Greenway talks, talks, and talks. The film opens in Manhattan...Read more | |
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 | Distress Sale: Financier sends $40 million worth of art to auction
Bloomberg - October 21st, 2009 23:31
A collection of 39 major modern and Impressionist artworks, including paintings by Monet, de Chirico, Degas and Picasso, will be offered by Dutch financier Louis Reijtenbagh, who resolved three legal claims earlier this year. The works will be auctioned in New York on Nov. 4 and 5 and may fetch about $40 million, according to host Sotheby’s. “It seems like it’s one of the first group of pictures appearing at auction as a distress sale” since the financial crisis ...Read more | |
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 | Arts Promo: NEA chair to tour country
Boston Globe 2 - October 21st, 2009 17:46
The country's top arts official is going on the road. Rocco Landesman, chair of the National Endowment of the Arts, announced Wednesday that he will spend six months visiting towns and cities nationwide, starting Nov. 6. He called it the "Art Works" tour, a triple entendre referring to works of art, the effectiveness of art and that art is a ...Read more | |
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