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The economy is melting - literally. Two artists on Wednesday installed a 1,500-pound ice sculpture that spelled the word "Economy" in Manhattan's financial district.
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Managers of a downtown office building yanked a sculpture called "Unmentionables . . . then and now" from an exhibition last week after tenants complained that the art was inappropriate. The offending art, by Joyce Zipperer, was installed with other artwork in the lobby of...(more)
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A 19th-century German School portrait that sold for $21,850 at a Christie’s auction in 1998 has now been attributed to Leonardo da Vinci by some experts.
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WHAT price the diplomatic skills of Michael Brand, director of the Getty museum that houses one of the world's finest and largest collections of Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities? This week, Mr Brand was in Rome to resume negotiations with Italy's Ministry of Culture over 52...(more)
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New Orleans will be the host of an international biennial in November, with the work of 81 artists in 20 museums, art centers and public spaces around the city.
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A powerful federal arts commission this morning approved the overall design of the planned Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial near the Mall, but several commission members still were critical of the mammoth sculpture of the civil rights leader that is the memorial's centerpiece. The memorial's...(more)
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If you happen to be driving through the desert near Doha, Qatar and notice an unusual number of Bentleys and Ferraris parked in front of a sand dune, you may find you're actually looking at the Museum of Modern Arab Art, a two-level, air-conditioned 350,000-square-foot facility...(more)
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ONGOING/OPEN "Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures: Architectures of Finance From the Great Depression to the Subprime Meltdown." Through Dec. 21. Compton Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. You've lived the bubble and watched your assets tank, now see the show: No institution...(more)
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If you've seen "Man on Wire," you know that the real stars of the documentary about Philippe Petit are the World Trade Center towers the tightrope walker used for his 1974 high-wire feat. There's a fascination with vintage footage of the buildings going up, knowing...(more)
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Alexander Nagel , 43, is best known for an award-winning book on Michelangelo, and for research into Renaissance concepts of history that he conducted during a two-year stint as Andrew Mellon professor at the National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. This...(more)
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