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Fifty Of Art World’s Leaders Address Second Global Art Forum in Dubai
Following on from the highly acclaimed Global Art Forum: 1 in 2007, fifty of the global art community’s most respected curators, collectors, and artists have been invited to join Global Art Forum: 2, taking place in Dubai 17-21 March alongside Art Dubai. With speakers ranging from Glenn Lowry, Director, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, to British-based artist Anish Kapoor, an array of artists and cultural contributors from around the world, will present their visions and debate ideas during the five-day event set to foster links between the Middle East and the wider global arts community through candid debate on the evolving business of art.
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Christie´s New York First Maritime Sale of 2008
On January 30 2008, Christie’s New York will hold its first Maritime Sale of 2008. The sale boasts an exceptional selection of over 350 maritime lots and offers impressive works by early American maritime artists as well as exceptional 20th century pieces and a spectacular selection of sailor folk art and scrimshaw.
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International Art Exhibition Reveals Mind Of Alzheimer´s
In the last decade of life artist William Utermohlen made perhaps his most significant contribution to society. He created a series of self-portraits, intentionally chronicling his descent into dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The international art exhibition, sponsored locally by Aging Services of California, will be exhibited publicly without charge at two Sacramento locations throughout February.
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MFA Boston Asserts Rightful Ownership Of Kokoschka Painting
In a lawsuit filed January 22 by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the Museum asserts rightful ownership of its painting "Two Nudes (Lovers)" by Oskar Kokoschka. The MFA filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in response to a request for restitution made by Dr. Claudia Seger-Thomschitz, represented as the sole heir of the painting’s former owner, Dr. Oskar Reichel of Vienna, Austria. Seger-Thomschitz has asserted that Reichel was forced to sell "Two Nudes (Lovers)" under duress in Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939. However, the MFA’s recent investigation into the history of ownership, or provenance, of the painting confirms that the MFA has clear title to the work. After meeting with counsel to Seger-Thomschitz yesterday, representatives of the Museum determined that, in order to protect its rightful ownership, it was necessary to seek a court order quieting title to the work.
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Sotheby´s To Offer "Three Self Portraits" By Andy Warhol
Sotheby’s is delighted to announce that its forthcoming Evening Auction of Contemporary Art, to be held on Wednesday, February 27th during the company’s first stand-alone week of Winter Contemporary Art sales in London, will be highlighted by a late, rare trinity of canvases by Andy Warhol, entitled "Three Self Portraits" (1986). The works will be unveiled at Sotheby’s New York galleries on Saturday, January 19th.
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The New Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair
ART LA, the New Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair, is pleased to announce the final list of participating international, national and Los Angeles-based contemporary art galleries featured at ART LA 2008. ART LA returns January 25 through January 27 to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main Street.
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De Saisset Museum Receives Gift From Andy Warhol Foundation
The de Saisset Museum is one of 183 college and university art museums across the United States to receive a gift through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art’s Photographic Legacy Program in honor of the foundation’s 20th anniversary. According to foundation President Joel Wachs, the aim of the Photographic Legacy Program is to provide greater access to Warhol’s artwork and process, and to enable a wide range of people from communities across the country to view and study this important, yet relatively unknown body of Warhol’s work: his photography.
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The L.A. Art Show Is Back For Its 13th Year
Now in it’s 13th year, the L.A. Art Show, presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), returns to the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport. The show commences with an exclusive opening night gala on Wednesday, January 23rd followed by four days of satellite events surrounding some of the world’s finest art available for purchase. With more than 125 exhibitors from destinations around the globe, this highly anticipated event marks the first time that the IFPDA’s Los Angeles Fine Print Fair will join the exhibition, further expanding the scope of artwork on display.
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World's First Urban Art Auction at Bonhams
Bonhams will hold the first auction devoted solely to Urban Art at its flagship salerooms in New Bond Street on Tuesday 5 February 2008. This innovative sale will document the incredible phenomenon of urban art by exploring its transition from an underground subculture to the mainstream.
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LACMA Receives US$10 Million Gift From Jane & Marc Nathanson
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced a US$10 million gift from The Jane & Marc Nathanson Foundation in support of the museum’s campaign to make contemporary art one of its primary areas of focus. LACMA will honor this gift by naming the first floor east gallery in the newly opened Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) "The Jane and Marc Nathanson Gallery." Mrs. Nathanson is an active Board of Trustee member at LACMA and will serve as chairwoman for the Opening Gala on February 9.
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Zaha Hadid Selected To Design MSU’s Broad Art Museum
World-renowned architect Zaha Hadid of London has been selected as the winner in the design competition for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Hadid joined the Broads at two public events today where MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon announced the winner.
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The San Francisco Print Fair
The San Francisco Print Fair, California's longest established and northern California's largest, will take place this year from Friday, January 18 through Sunday, January 20 at Fort Mason, Landmark Building A in San Francisco. Some 20 fine print dealers from throughout the United States and Canada will offer for sale prints from a variety of periods and in various styles, from Old Masters to contemporary graphics, and from etchings to digital images.
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Sotheby´s February Sale Will Offer A Picasso Dora Maar Portrait
Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern art in London on Tuesday, February 5 will bring to the market major works by many of the leading names in the field – among them Picasso, Jawlensky, Sisley, Monet, Cézanne, Renoir and Franz Marc. Together with the rest of the series of sales, they carry a combined estimate in excess of £100 million, making this among the highest value series of sales Sotheby’s has ever staged in Europe.
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Philippe de Montebello Announces Retirement from The MET
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Philippe de Montebello (whose long and storied career at the Museum has spanned nearly a third of the institution's entire history) will retire after more than 30 years as its eighth, and longest-serving, Director. Mr. de Montebello, who first joined the staff as a curatorial assistant in 1963, became Director in 1977, and assumed the additional role of Chief Executive Officer in 1998, plans to step down by December 31, 2008.
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Bonhams' First Middle East Auction
Bonhams, the international fine art auction house established in the UK since 1793, will hold its first Middle East auction sale in Dubai this March featuring some works from some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary Arab, Iranian, Indian and Pakistani art including India's Francis Newton Souza, Syria's Louay Kayyali and Iran's Nasser Ovissi. Fine jewellery and watches will also be included in the sale.
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Lyon And Turnbull To Sell The Deloitte Art Collection In London
Deloitte, the business advisory firm, and Lyon and Turnbull, will sell at auction in London the Deloitte Art Collection, which incorporates the former Arthur Anderson Art Collection. The auction will take place in the Royal Academy’s Burlington Gardens building on January 10th 2008 and is valued between £750,000 and £1m.
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Contemporary Art Fair Returns To Palm Beach For 11th Season
palmbeach3 | contemporary art fair is anticipated to attract great deal of attention from all over the world when it returns to Palm Beach for its 11th season on January 11-14, 2008 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Riding high on unprecedented levels of interest in contemporary art, the Fair will offer a compelling, innovative, multi-disciplined exhibition of modern and contemporary art designed to appeal to both new and seasoned art enthusiasts.
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Christie’s And Guyette & Schmidt Inc. Announced Strategic Association
In an exciting cross marketing move, Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, and Guyette & Schmidt, the world’s largest antique decoy auction firm, announced their strategic association which will be aimed at providing the highest level of service to the existing decoy market while further developing and supporting interest in and awareness of this collecting field. Combining the expertise, business acumen and client networks of both companies, this association will be beneficial to the decoy collecting community inside and outside of the United States.
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17th Annual International Photo L.A. 2008
artfairs inc., producer of the highly acclaimed art fairs photo MIAMI and ART LA, is pleased to announce that photo l.a. 2008, the 17th Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, which will take place January 10-13, 2008. artfairs inc. also announces that this highly anticipated event—popular among collectors and curators alike—is moving to a larger location: the 35,000 square foot Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport.
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