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Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim’s New Mexico Museum to House Rodin Collection
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Ostrale 010: International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts Opens in Dresden
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Ostrale 010: International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts Opens in Dresden
DRESDEN.- The OSTRALE´010 is presenting for the 4th time the complete spectrum of contemporary art in the dilapidated structures of the former Erlwein Schlachthof in the Ostragehege in Dresden. The OSTRALE developed in a very short time to one of the …
Pomeranian State Museum to Open Exhibition by Three Masters of German Romanticism
GREIFSWALD.- Their fathers were said to be appalled by their sons´ decision to become artists. But the three young men, dreaming of a new way to express art, were determined to implement their plans. Ultimately their parents gave way. Caspar David Fri…
Whitney Museum Extends John Jonas Gruen Exhibition
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Last Carnegie Hall Resident, Elizabeth Sargent, Forced Out of Towers
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Musée Maillol Announces Exhibition of Treasures of the Medicis
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Portinari Painting Stolen from Brazil Museum
SAO PAULO (AP).- Police say a painting by Candido Portinari, one of Brazil’s best-known painters, has been stolen from a museum. Inspector Manoel Martins says the 1959 painting “O Enterro,” or “The Burial,” is worth about 1.5 million reals ($850,000). …
Cheim & Read Showing Group Exhibition Titled "Le Tableau"
NEW YORK, NY.-
In Achim Hochdörfer’s article in the
February 2009 Artforum entitled “A Hidden Reserve: painting from 1958 to
1965,”
the author names a number of painters included in this exhibition,
“Whose
practices are rich with impl…