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Art News,For the Week of August 22. 2010
DUBAI.- A masterpiece by Jewad Selim, one of the most important Arab artists, is one of the many exciting works of art in Bonhams latest sale of South Asian and Middle East Art taking place on October 11 at the Royal Mirage Hotel Dubai. This will be the sixth time Bonhams hold a sale in Dubai. Ardaily (We have listed Bonhams the Arab Artists/Works on our site Æ)
LONDON (AP).-Will tough times trigger corporate art selloff? Over decades, many of the world's wealthiest banks and companies have built up art collections, rich in modern masters, that are the envy of many museums. Now, some are selling off works that adorn offices and boardrooms — some from choice, but others to pay off hungry creditors. AP
LOS ANGELES, CA.-Bonhams & Butterfields will offer Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts on September 13, 2010 in Los Angeles. Highlights from the fall sale will include rare and exceptional works from the Personal Collection of Debbie Reynolds. Ardaily
ARLINGTON, VA.- PBS President and CEO Paula A. Kerger today announced the launch of PBS Arts, a new website that offers Americans the opportunity to experience the arts and explore the creative process through special virtual exhibits, videos from PBS national and local programs and interactive features. Ardaily
EDINBURGH.-The National Galleries of Scotland launched their first ever iPhone app. Created for the major summer exhibition Impressionist Gardens, it is now free to download from the iTunes store. Ardaily
KNOKKE-HEIST.- This year’s 35th edition of the prestigious art and antiques fair Art Nocturne Knocke was a resounding success... Ardaily
CAIRO (AP).-For the second time the painting (which goes by two titles — "Poppy Flowers" and "Vase with Flowers.") by the Dutch-born postimpressionist has been stolen from the Khalil museum. Thieves first made off with the canvas in 1978, before authorities recovered it two years later at an undisclosed location in Kuwait...CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egypt's general prosecutor has blocked nine Culture Ministry officials from travel as part of an inquiry into the theft of a Van Gogh painting worth an estimated $55 million CAIRO (AP).- None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen.
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LONDON.-Christie's announced the September auction of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints, which will showcase five centuries of printmaking and a remarkable selection of famous names from all periods. Alongside iconic prints by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró...
BRUGES.- The sculpture "Woman with Drawers" by Salvador Dali, valued at 100,000 euros, was stolen from an exhibition hall in Bruges (NW Belgium), the Belgian press said today.
A security camera filmed how the thieves hid the statue in a bag and left the show shortly after noon Wednesday. Ardaily
Over the past few months, one of the nation’s leading art museums, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), has acquired a seminal piece of 18th-century French silver, rare examples of 17th- and 18th-century Spanish religious iconography...
Michener Art Museum Presents Tales from the FBI's Real Indiana Jones. in May, five paintings were stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris . What were the thief, or thieves, thinking when they walked off with a Picasso, a Matisse, a Braque, a Modigliani and a Leger? Did they plan to sell these paintings, whose heist was widely reported, or did they hope to place them on the mantel and gaze lovingly? Ardaily
Dallas Contemporary announces its new membership group called Y@161 with events and programming geared toward young professionals and art enthusiasts. Ardaily
A Shot in the Dark. Spanning more than 100 years of artistic production, from early 20th-century landscape painting and modernist abstraction to 1960s conceptualism and contemporary sculpture, this exhibition places a group of recent Walker acquisitions in the context of rarely seen works from the collection, including two films never before on view. Walker Art
FLORENCE, Italy – Center-right Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and center-left Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi are, perhaps unsurprisingly, not the closest of friends. What is surprising, however, is that the turf of their latest ideological battle is not politics but art history, with each man claiming that his government has control of
Michelangelo's towering "David" sculpture, on view at the Accademia gallery in Florence. ARTINFO
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