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Written by Giles Peppiatt
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:35 |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams’ March 10th ‘Africa Now’ sale
was met with great enthusiasm by both American and International buyers. Taking
place at the auctioneers’ Madison Avenue galleries this was the first sale of
modern & contemporary African art ever to be held in New York. Consisting of
140 lots the auction featured work by both new and established artists from
fourteen African Nations. As part of the celebrations surrounding the
sale the ‘Keep a Child Alive’ charity and Afren partnered with Bonhams to host a
reception which took place the evening before the sale.
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Read more... 'Africa Now' Auction Draws International Attention to Bonhams
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Written by Sylvia Glazer
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:34 |
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- At the March 11, 2010
meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, a story of
continuity and change will unfold as 40-year-old David Levine officially steps
into his new role as Chair of the Board, succeeding one of San Francisco's most
prominent leaders and longtime Museum Chair, Roselyne "Cissie" Swig.
Since its founding, the CJM has had distinguished individuals serving as the
Chair of the Board, beginning with Alfred Fromm in 1982 and including Bernard
Osher, Phyllis Moldaw, Richard Swig, Claude Ganz, Joyce Linker, Fred Levinson,
Stephen Leavitt, and Warren Hellman. Roselyne Chroman Swig is the tenth
individual to serve as the Chair. Five of the former Chairs Moldaw,
Linker, Leavitt, Hellman, and Swig continue to serve as Trustees of the
CJM.
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Read more... David Levine Appointed New Chair of the Contemporary Jewish Museum's Board
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Written by Velma Bull
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:04 |
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AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum is today launching an
ambitious restoration programme at Tefaf Maastricht. Masterpieces
specially
selected from the Rijksmuseum’s collection will undergo an intensive
restoration
process to ensure that they shine like never before by the time the
museum’s
main building re-opens in 2013. The pieces in question include
Woman in
Blue Reading A Letter by Vermeer, Six burial figures from the T’ang
Dynasty, a
mahogany period room from 1748 called The Beuning room, and the Silver
table
ornament by Jamnitzer which is one of the absolute highlights of the
museum’s
collection of European silversmithery. The Rijksmuseum is seeking
sponsors for
each of these projects.
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Read more... Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Launches Ambitious Restoration Program
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Written by Miles Hellerman
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:03 |
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WASHINGTON (AP).- The United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum says 30 million visitors have now come through its
doors. The
museum said Wednesday that the milestone was passed this week. The
museum has
been open since April 1993. A museum spokesman says 1.75
million people
visited last year. Museum officials also note that 88 heads of state and
more
than 3,500 foreign officials from more than 130 different countries have
toured
the museum.
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Read more... U.S. Holocaust Museum Passes 30 Million Visitors in Washington, DC
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Written by Walter Ungerman
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:02 |
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MAASTRICHT,NL - Quality, rarity and
provenance
have become the hallmarks of TEFAF Maastricht and the world’s most
influential
art and antiques fair has an extraordinary range of important works on
show at
the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) from 12 through 21
March
2010. Highlights of the 23rd edition of the Fair in the
southern
Netherlands include a bed that once belonged to the great French
diplomat
Talleyrand, the Italian Expressionist Marino Marini’s greatest picture,
one of
the last major paintings by Paul Gauguin and a key early work by Damien
Hirst.
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Read more... Museum Quality Masterpieces at The European Fine Art Fair in Maastrich
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Written by Rudolph Gooding
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 02:23 |
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NEW
YORK, NY.- Christie’s has been entrusted with the sale of
"Three
Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the Collection of Patricia
McCabe",
the most significant group of photographs by Irving Penn (1917-2009)
ever to
come to auction. The sale will take place on the evening of April 14,
2010 at
Christie’s New York and will be preceded by public exhibitions
in its
Galleries at Rockefeller Center through March 12, and April 10 through
13. The
67 photographs in the Collection were gifts from Irving Penn to Patricia
McCabe,
his trusted personal assistant for over thirty years.
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Read more... Photos by Irving Penn on Offer for the Very First Time at Christie's Auction
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Written by Paul Schemm, Associated Press Writer
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 02:07 |
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CAIRO
(AP).- The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king
Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt's enduring
mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten's mummy. The
discovery
could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era more than 3,300
years ago
when Akhenaten embarked on history's first attempt at monotheism.
During his 17-year rule, Akhenaten sought to overturn more than a
millennium of
Egyptian religion and art to establish the worship of a single sun god.
In the
end, his bold experiment failed and he was eventually succeeded by his
son, the
young Tutankhamun, who rolled back his reforms and restored the old
religion.
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Read more... Mummy of Egypt's Monotheist Pharaoh Akhenaten to Return Home
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Written by Brett Zongker, Associated Press Writer
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 02:06 |
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WASHINGTON (AP).- A
spark that helped ignite Elvis
Presley's fame more than 50 years ago was lit by the newspaper editors
and
critics who hated him. They detested his voice and thought his moves
were unfit
for family publications, all while teenagers went wild. It's that
shocking style
and clash with the media that also will make Elvis the subject of a new
exhibition at the Newseum, a history museum that celebrates the First
Amendment
in Washington. The exhibit opening March 19 traces Elvis' rise
in the
1950s — in part a study in image management by his longtime manager,
Col. Tom
Parker — to his meeting with President Richard Nixon at the White House
in
1970. It will include rare objects from Presley's life, some never
before
displayed outside of Graceland and others never before publicly
displayed
anywhere.
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Read more... Elvis' Clashes with Media on View at Newseum in Washington
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Written by Bette Hannity
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 02:05 |
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DUBLIN.- Based in the heart of the city, the
National
Leprechaun Museum is a national cultural entertainment centre that takes
visitors deeper into Irish and Celtic culture to discover what really
lies
behind the well-known tales of Irish cultural iconography - leprechauns,
rainbows and pots of gold. The National Leprechaun Museum is the first
ever
visitor attraction dedicated to Irish mythology and promises to open up a
fun
and magical world full of fascinating folklore and enchanting stories.
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Read more... Ireland's National Leprechaun Museum Opens in Dublin City Centre
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Written by Victor Millas
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 01:43 |
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THE HAGUE, NL - The Mauritshuis is displaying ten
exceptional portraits of Arnhem’s Craeyvanger family until 16 January
2011. The
paintings are the only known series of portraits of the members of a
single
family - father, mother and eight children - to have survived from the
seventeenth century. The series’ existence was relatively
unknown until
the paintings came up for auction in 2009. A private collection has lent
the
works to the Mauritshuis, where the unique ensemble are on display to
the public
for the first time in the Netherlands.
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Read more... Craeyvanger Family Portraits On Display at the Mauritshuis Museum
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Written by Thomas Cannon
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 01:43 |
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NEW
YORK, NY.- In a brand-new Limited Edition to benefit
Prospect New
Orleans, acclaimed New York artist Fred Tomaselli has taken as his
starting
point one of the most harrowing post-Katrina media images. On the front
page of
the New York Times for Wednesday, August 31, 2005, readers saw the first
printed
images of the city engulfed by waters, and Tomaselli has astutely
captured the
sense of unreality and dislocation still associated with this image in
the
popular imagination. A full day following the hurricane’s
pounding of
the region, and when most of the world (including New Orleans itself)
believed
the city had been spared the worst, the levee system had unexpectedly
failed in
multiple locations, rapidly submerging eighty percent of the city in
toxic
waters for nearly three full weeks.
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Read more... Prospect New Orleans Launches a Limited Edition Print by Fred Tomaselli
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Written by Maurice Kramer
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 01:42 |
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WASHINGTON,
DC.-The Smithsonian’s
National Postal Museumpresents
parts three and four of its four-part online exhibit series “Women on
Stamps” in
celebration of Women’s History Month.Many women have left
their “stamp” on
history. Beginning with the first image of women on a
stamp in
1893, the United States has issued hundreds of postage stamps honoring
the
accomplishments and achievements of women in America. This featured
collection is the first in a series
focusing on the accomplishments of women featured on stamps. In Women on
Stamps
Part One, we acknowledge the efforts of pioneering women and early
government
leaders who entered previously unexplored territories - from the
frontier to the
Senate floor.
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Read more... National Postal Museum Launches Featured Collection "Women on Stamps
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