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The Works of Edgar Degas is part of what the Tampa Museum calls the French geniuses bronze sculptures. They will be on display until June 19th but there is controversy surrounding the exhibit.Jacksonville artist Gary Arseneau says, unfortunately, the Degas…
The once-grand white house watches over Long Island Sound from the tip of Sands Point, its days numbered.Lands End, the 25-room Colonial Revival mansion that local lore says was F. Scott Fitzgerald's inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's home in "The Great…
LONDON.- On the evening of 10 May 2011, Sotheby’s will offer one of the most important works by Jeff Koons ever to have appeared at auction. Pink Panther from 1988 draws on many of the themes that have come to…
New York, March 11, 2011—The Museum of Modern Art will acquire two landmark paintings from the 1950s and a group of seven sculptures ranging in date from 1954 to 2005 by Cy Twombly, widely regarded as one of today’s most…
Berlin is showcasing a collection of over 250 works from New York's Museum of Modern Art at the Martin Gropius-Bau. The renowned exhibition hall is celebrating its 30th anniversary with the contemporary collection, described as "risk-taking" by one of the…
It is show season again, after what seemed like the briefest of lulls. With the Palm Beach fairs a wrap, dealers are headed for Maastricht, New York and Philadelphia. Then it is on to London in June before the business…
Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Arts minister Rachel Nolan have announced a major new exhibition of Dali, Magritte, Miró, Man Ray and other surrealists.Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams opens in June and showcases Europe's most important and extensive…
French police have recovered a cache of stolen Harry Winston gems hidden in a rain sewer. The loot, spoils from a brazen 2008 heist, was found in a plastic container set in a cement mold, inside a drain at a…
There are over 600 galleries spread over seven art fairs vying for collectors and sales during New York’s unofficial arts week. And that’s not counting the smaller satellites and numerous gallery shows from Chelsea to Brooklyn. Elsewhere there is a…
Long before BMW commissioned him to paint an art car, Andy Warhol had translated an abiding fascination with automobiles into work. A new show at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey includes some 40 works and other items on…
A statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin was stolen from the Israel Museum during renovations.The bronze sculpture, "Naked Balzac with Folded Arms" was cast between 1892 and 1893 and was one of a series Rodin made while preparing a…
Cairo's Egyptian Museum houses some of the world's greatest ancient treasures, but last month's unrest prompted fears over the fate of its historical artifacts.Among the prized objects at the Egyptian Museum are towering statues of ancient pharaohs, a rare collection…
Will Barnet, who turns 100 in May, hurt his leg in a fall some time ago and nowadays does his "walking" in a wheeled office chair.Every month or so, his son, Peter, now 72 and head of the painting department…
Stand outside New York's Metropolitan Opera and look at the two giant murals Marc Chagall painted in the mid-1960s. Angelic figures and exotic animals float through a sea of sumptuous red and brilliant yellow, the work of an 80-year-old man…
Hedge-fund manager Adam Sender’s curator made her way through the mega-souk on the Hudson that is New York’s Armory Show Wednesday and stopped at the Untitled booth for Andrew Hahn.“I think everyone is in love with these,” said Sarah Aibel.She…
Conniving thief or oblivious employee?Two pictures of a former deputy of disgraced art dealer Lawrence B. Salander emerged in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday.Leigh Morse, 54, is being tried in New York State Supreme Court on charges of fraud and grand…
The BMW Art Car by Jeff Koons will be exhibited in the Netherlands for the first time ever - among historical collections of fine art and antique jewelry - at the 24th edition of the TEFAF (The European Fine Art…
A $45million (£30million) Turner masterpiece is set to make its debut in Los Angeles.'Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino' was acquired by the J Paul Getty Museum in July. The price tag set a new auction record for the British master.…
Georges Pompidou’s dream was a modern arts center. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing signed off on the popular Musée d’Orsay.Every French president since de Gaulle has imagined some Pharaonic cultural monument or other to honor La Grande Nation, as the mocking German…
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust – the Picasso painting that last year became the most expensive art work ever sold at auction – is to be publicly displayed in the UK for the first time.Tate Modern said it would be…
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