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The Fall Auction Season Opens With Little Enthusiasm

a shared story    2 weeks 4 days 3 hours 58 minutes ago
During an auction at Sotheby’s, the results were spotty, a relief to those who thought the appetite for art was all but dead, but hardly the success story of seasons past.   comments (0)  | report problem


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Art: Pictures Worth Thousands of Words

a shared story    2 weeks 5 days 22 hours 58 minutes ago
A fresh look at Proust’s dreamlike writing focuses on the works of art that inspired it.   comments (0)  | report problem


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Albert Boime, Leading Art Historian, Dies at 75

a shared story    2 weeks 5 days 23 hours 58 minutes ago
Professor Boime, who wrote the four-volume “Social History of Modern Art,” was a scholar of art history who took the history every bit as seriously as the art.   comments (0)  | report problem


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Marvel of Marbles! A Painter's Sleight of Hand

a shared story    2 weeks 6 days 58 minutes ago
When exhibit designers want to reshape the marble halls of the National Gallery of Art, they turn to one of the most remarkable artists in Washington: Glenn Perry. Trained as a landscape painter, Perry, 54, uses paint to turn ordinary plywood into something indistinguishable from...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Six Reasons Why You Gotta Love Lievens

a shared story    2 weeks 6 days 1 hour 58 minutes ago
If "Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered" were a sales pitch for its hero, would it get you to buy? Here are half a dozen reasons why clients back then, and art lovers now, might pick Lievens over that other Leiden guy. 1. HIS PORTRAITS...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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'The Universe of Keith Haring'

a shared story    3 weeks 23 hours 58 minutes ago
The bane of documentaries on creative people is that they're often little more than a fan's note, of interest only to those who already know and love the work in question. "The Universe of Keith Haring" starts out that way but the force of the late...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Museum returns painting found to be Nazi loot

a shared story    3 weeks 1 day 19 hours 58 minutes ago
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has sent a painting by cubist Fernand Leger back to the heirs of a Jewish art collector in France, after concluding it had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II....  comments (0)  | report problem


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Art: Tapped Out?

a shared story    3 weeks 2 days 3 hours 58 minutes ago
With the market easing, the big auction houses brace for the fall sales.   comments (0)  | report problem
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Ex-Director To Repay Smithsonian

a shared story    3 weeks 2 days 20 hours 58 minutes ago
Travel and other spending by the Smithsonian's former American Indian Museum director was imprudent and at times "lavish," but most of it conformed with institution rules, the Smithsonian inspector general said in a report distributed to Congress yesterday. W. Richard West Jr., who retired last...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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New Orleans Rising, by Hammer and Art

a shared story    3 weeks 3 days 3 hours 58 minutes ago
Prospect.1 New Orleans, an ambitious new art biennial, is billed as the largest exhibition of contemporary art ever held on American soil and is intended to help restore the cultural vibrancy of New Orleans.   comments (0)  | report problem


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Art: Shining a Light on a Movement That Maybe Isn’t

a shared story    3 weeks 5 days 22 hours 58 minutes ago
THE title is the first indication that the exhibition is a bit of a departure for the Guggenheim Museum: “theanyspacewhatever.”.   comments (0)  | report problem


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Where Two Artists Stand on Common Ground

a shared story    3 weeks 6 days 58 minutes ago
"Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is a two-star standoff, slightly pointless, in which 42 of her romantic visions of the West confront 96 of his. The painter and the photographer were both greatly taken by New Mexico,...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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