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A benchmark Paris sale of Impressionist and Modern paintings that belonged to French fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin fell well short of pre-sale expectations Monday, in a clear signal the financial crisis is hitting the previously resilient art market.
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The philanthropist Eli Broad has offered $30 million to help rescue the Museum of Contemporary Art if the trustees and other patrons also step up their donations.
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The poet, philosopher, translator and scholar Lewis Hyde has spent his life trying to figure that out — and became a literary cult figure in the process.
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A prominent New York and Miami art dealer was arrested Friday on charges of selling forged paintings bearing the names of famous artists including Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Tom Wesselmann.
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He might have sold more than $200 million in art at a two-day auction in London this year, but not even Damien Hirst, below, is immune to the effects of the ailing economy. The Guardian reported that several workers who make the pills for Mr. Hirst’s...(more)
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Works by a range of artists from Renoir to Rothko failed to sell, and much of the rest went for far less than what it would have a year ago.
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ANTWERP, Belgium -- One man's stink is another man's major art project. A piece by Belgian conceptual artist Jan Fabre at Antwerp's MuHKA contemporary art museum is challenging the nose as well as the eyes. The installation "Spring Is on Its Way" consists of onions...(more)
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Recent art auctions seemed to signal a new era in sales, one that featured the return of the seasoned collector and more-sober business practices.
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Mr. Cieciorka was a graphic artist, art director and watercolorist whose woodcut rendering of a clenched-fist salute was the model for the New Left’s most ubiquitous emblem.
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The Zimbabwean playwright and political satirist Cont Mhlanga has won the Freedom to Create Prize, awarded by the artistic philanthropy group ArtVenture, the organization announced. Mr. Mhlanga has been an outspoken critic of Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, and his work has been banned by that regime....(more)
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