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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, October 29, 2009

Museums Spared: Irish terrorists had targeted art repositories
Telegraph - October 28th, 2009 22:27

A recently released "death list" of prominent people and places, compiled in 1975 by the radical group known as the Balcombe Street terrorists, was found in an IRA safe house in London. After the arrest of some of the group's members, their target list was sealed for 36 years. Among the 96 places on the list are a number of museums such as the British Museum and the Imperial War Museum as well as the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery and the Queen's Gallery, housing ...

On the Rise: MoMA gets 82-story tower approved
Associated Press - October 28th, 2009 20:54

The Museum of Modern Art's proposal for a Jean Nouvel-designed skyscraper has cleared its final hurdle. The New York City Council voted Wednesday to approve the plan for a 1000-foot mixed-use tower on West 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The museum will gain approximately 40,000 square feet of new gallery space - a 30 percent increase. Hotel rooms and 150 residential apartments are part of the plan.

'Roadshow' Surprise: Sinatra letter sings to tune of $15,000
New York Post - October 28th, 2009 19:33

An appearance on PBS' "Antiques Road show" made a Chicago great-grandmother glad she held on to a 1976 letter written by Frank Sinatra. A bellicose Sinatra wrote the letter to Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko when Royko criticized one of his concerts, saying he had an entourage of flunkies and that he wore a rug on stage. Carlson, 84, originally paid $400 for the two-page letter, which was appraised at $15,000. Freeman's of Philadelphia will auction the letter next ...

Calligraphy Sells: Record price smashed for Arab art
Maktoob Business - October 28th, 2009 19:26

A double calligraphy by Egyptian artist Ahmed Mustafa became the most expensive work by an Arab artist on Tuesday, selling for $662,500 at a Christie's auction in Dubai and raising hopes of a recovery in the Middle East’s struggling art market. Mustafa’s "Remembrance and Gratitude" went under the hammer in a packed auction house that saw around three-quarters of the 166 lots sold for a total of $6.7 million...

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	Metropolitan Museum of Art Returns a Granite Fragment to Egypt Release Date: 28 October 2009 Fragment had been on loan and was recently identified as belonging to a larger work in Karnak The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return to Egypt tomorrow, October 29, an ancient Egyptian granite relief fragment inscribed with the name of Amenemhat I, ruler of Egypt from 1991 BC to ... Read more

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