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NEW YORK, NY.- Beginning in April 2010, Sotheby’s New York will have the privilege of offering the James S. Copley Library, an astonishing survey in original manuscripts of American history and worldwide literary, artistic and scientific achievement. The core of the collection is its remarkable range of handwritten letters, documents, and other manuscripts which trace this history of America from the earliest incursions of Jesuit missionaries into California through the archive of letters sent by General Eisenhower to his wife from the battlefields of Europe. The depth and breadth of the library is astounding, reflecting the interest and passions of an inspired collector and newspaper publisher along with a dedicated curator who together sought the finest works available. Assembled primarily during the 1960s and 70s, a ‘Golden Age’ for manuscript collecting, the Library numbers approximately 2,000 manuscripts, bo

LONDON.- The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will take place on February 11, 2010 at 7pm, and will offer 52 lots with a total pre-sale estimate of £26,290,000 to £38,260,000. The auction will represent a broad spectrum of art from the last 60 years and is highlighted by an important core group of works from the early 1960s including the masterpiece “Relief éponge” (RE47II), one of only two gold sponge reliefs ever created by Yves Klein (estimate: £5 million to £7 million), alongside a further important work by the artist, “ANT 5”, and together with major paintings by Peter Doig, Martin Kippenberger, Raqib Shaw, Neo Rauch, Frank Auerbach, Andy Warhol, and Nicolas de Staël among others. Francis Outred, Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie’s Europe:

LONDON.- The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will take place on February 11, 2010 at 7pm, and will offer 52 lots with a total pre-sale estimate of £26,290,000 to £38,260,000. The auction will represent a broad spectrum of art from the last 60 years and is highlighted by an important core group of works from the early 1960s including the masterpiece “Relief éponge” (RE47II), one of only two gold sponge reliefs ever created by Yves Klein (estimate: £5 million to £7 million), alongside a further important work by the artist, “ANT 5”, and together with major paintings by Peter Doig, Martin Kippenberger, Raqib Shaw, Neo Rauch, Frank Auerbach, Andy Warhol, and Nicolas de Staël among others. Francis Outred, Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie’s Europe:

LIVERPOOL.- In a period of global unrest, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) presents a timely exhibition. “MyWar” explores conflict in a digitally networked world through the work of 12 international artists. Their work investigates the realities and myths of war at a time when the boundaries between the public and the private are being steadily eroded. The exhibition follows two lines of enquiry. In the first, the artists adopt a radically personal approach to war. In his video work ‘Episode I’ (2004), Dutch artist Renzo Martens reflects on the narcissism of news media and the role of the camera in places of political unrest. Travelling to war zones, the artist turns the camera onto himself and asks the war’s victims, not what is happening to them, but what they think of him. In contrast, video pieces by Belgian film-maker Sarah Vanagt and Turner Prize nominated artist Phil Collins highlight the activities o

OMAHA, NE.- Jewel-like watercolor collages bring to life the message of Martin Luther King, Jr., and tell the story of Rosa Parks, Langston Hughes, and other important figures and chapters in American history, in the exhibition “Defining Moments: Works by Bryan Collier”. The show opened at Joslyn Art Museum continues through April 11 in the Museum’s Mind’s Eye Gallery. Utilizing shape and color, combined with texture — much as he saw his grandmother do while making quilts when he was a boy — Bryan Collier has created stunning pictures, with layers of meaning, for over a dozen children’s books. Collier began painting as a teenager and graduated from Pratt Institute in New York before channeling his love of art into a career as a book illustrator and author. A resident of Harlem, Collier feels a deep sense of responsibility to be a positive role model for children and, for years, has volunteered

LONDON.- Peter Marino’s exceptional private collection of bronze sculptures will go on show to the public for the first time at London’s Wallace Collection, 29 April – 25 July 2010. Marino is one of the world’s leading architects. Andy Warhol and Yves St Laurent were amongst his first clients, when he founded his architectural practice in 1978, with initial commissions including the design of Warhol’s seminal Factory space and renovation of his New York townhouse. Friendship with Warhol furthered Marino’s interest in art collecting, a passion he has been able to develop both whilst sourcing artworks for domestic and corporate clients and through his work for international museums. Marino’s museum commissions have included designing the installation for the Sèvres Exhibition at the American Craft Museum and, to be unveiled in 2010, the Lalanne sculpture exhibition at Paris’s Mus

ANTWERP.- ANIMISM is a long-term exhibition and publication project first presented between January 22 and May 2, 2010 in Antwerp in a collaboration between Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and the Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA). In a second stage the exhibition will move to Kunsthalle Bern from May till July 2010. Subsequent versions will be developed at the Generali Foundation in Vienna and the House of World Cultures in Berlin (with the Free University Berlin) in 2011 and 2012, respectively. The exhibition responds to a new interest in animism as a concept through which to understand the world and specifically our relation to things, animals and nature differently. ANIMISM takes as its starting point what was once the backdrop against which modernity defined itself – the boundaries between the animate and inanimate, culture and nature, life and non-life – and critic

HOUSTON, TX.-The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Painting and Sculpture will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in June 2010, presenting more than 60 major works in oil, bronze, and mixed media by the renowned ‘cowboy artist’ Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), as well as a selection of personal objects that portray the artist in his own words and images. Virtually self-taught, Russell began to paint early in his career as a cowboy, after he left his privileged St. Louis family at sixteen to work as a night wrangler on a ranch in the Montana Territory. Later on, his iconic images would help define the American West in the popular imagination. With first-hand knowledge of cowboys and outlaws, Native Americans, trappers and hunters, and Western wildlife and wilderness, Russell presented an unparalleled view of a bygone American culture, rich in authentic detail and infused with personal passion. By the time

TEHRAN.- Iran will cut its links with the British Museum and ask bodies such as UNESCO to reconsider their own ties if the museum does not keep a promise to lend Iran an ancient Persian treasure, Iranian media reported on Sunday. Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organization said in October it had set a two-month deadline for the British Museum to allow the public display in Iran of the so-called Cyrus Cylinder, linked to the Persian ruler’s 6th century BC conquest of Babylon. The Museum, which houses a vast collection of world art and artifacts, said in September that plans to hand over the 2,500-year-old clay cylinder had been delayed due to unspecified “practicalities.” “If we find out for certain that the British Museum does not want to send the Cyrus

BALTIMORE, MD (AP).- Edgar Allan Poe’s fertile imagination has endured for more than 150 years — and so has his pale, death-haunted image, with his sunken eyes, a trim mustache and unruly mop of curly hair. However, scholars say Poe looked far more vigorous, perhaps even dashing, in his earlier years than he does in the well-known series of daguerreotypes taken in the final years of his life. The more robust Poe is captured in a small watercolor by A.C. Smith, one of just three surviving portraits of the author, which will be shown publicly for the first time Saturday and is expected to fetch tens of thousands