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Artists, protesters target Blair book party
(Reuters)
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Reuters - Former British premier Tony Blair has been forced to postponed a party at the Tate Modern art gallery celebrating the launch of his autobiography because of threats from anti-war protesters, his office said on Wednesday.
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Valentino Retrospective Sweeps into Australia
(ARTINFO)
Thursday, September 09, 2010
ARTINFO - With Fashion Week fast approaching, a grateful look to the golden age of couture, when clothing design approached the realm of art, seems to be merited. Thankfully, it is readily available at the Brisbane?s Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, which is hosting "Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future" until November 14. Developed by curator Pamela Golbin from the Mus?des Arts D?ratifs in Paris, the show highlights 100 ensembles, celebrating the past half-century of garb by the Italian fashion house.
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Phillips de Pury Hopes to Sell the Spoils of Another Disgraced Collector
(ARTINFO)
Thursday, September 09, 2010
ARTINFO - As Sotheby's and Christie's stake out their blue-chip consignment territory in advance of the fall market season, second-string boutique Phillips de Pury seems to be working a burgeoning, if unglamorous, niche: helping disgraced financiers sell off their ill-gotten art. After bringing in more than $24 million this spring by auctioning the collection of debt-ridden Internet entrepreneur Hasley Minor, Phillips is now angling for the corporate art collection of the defunct law firm of Marc Dreier, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for federal fraud after having attempted to sell $700 million bonus promissory notes to investors.
According to the Wall Street Journal, a bankruptcy official has filed for court approval for a November 21 Phillips auction of the modern and contemporary works Dreier amassed before his 2008 arrest. The 81-piece collection includes works by Damien Hirst, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, and Willem de Kooning, as well as photographs of the Dreier family and of Audrey Hepburn playing that other fiscally inept individual Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany?s."
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U.S. Returns Spoils of War and Archaeological Loot to Iraq
(ARTINFO)
Thursday, September 09, 2010
ARTINFO - As a reminder that the looting of Iraq's heritage has hardly been restricted to the militant thieves who pillaged the Iraqi National Museum after the 2003 American invasion, the United States has repatriated a group of objects, some of which were apparently taken as war booty, and others that reflect the region's history of artifact smuggling. This step, by all accounts, is only a small one in what will have to be a concerted international effort to undo the work of all kinds of opportunistic raiders.
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Bill T. Jones, Oprah, and a Singing Outlaw Are Named for Kennedy Center Honors
(ARTINFO)
Thursday, September 09, 2010
ARTINFO - A Kennedy Center Honor, which the Kennedy Centers website likens to a knighthood in Britain, is the ultimate reward for a person?s ?lifetime contribution to American culture.? This year those contributions included outlaw country music, "Yesterday," uplifting car giveaways, and scintillatingly vibrant choreography.
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Egypt Cracks Down on Arts Officials After Van Gogh Theft
(ARTINFO)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
ARTINFO - Egyptian authorities have been unable to recover the $50 million van Gogh that was stolen in broad daylight from Cairo's Mahmoud Khalil Museum last month, but they have certainly wasted no time in finding scapegoats for the embarrassing theft. Eleven people in the country's arts establishment, including a senior culture minister and the head of the museum, are now set to be tried in court on charges of negligence in protecting the painting.
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Jerry Hall to Auction a Pregnant Nude Portrait and Other Art at Sotheby's
(ARTINFO)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
ARTINFO - As if the action-packed fall art season wasn't sexy enough already, Jerry Hall ? world-famous supermodel, actress, and the alleged subject matter of Mick Jaggers hit?love song,??Miss You?? will be selling her collection of contemporary art at Sotheby?s next month. The 14 artworks, which?attest to?Hall?s glamorous life amidst the avant-garde 1970s and 80s in New York, will be auctioned to coincide with London?s Frieze Art Fair.
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First Quicksand, Now a "Complex Situation" Delay New York's African Art Museum
(ARTINFO)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
ARTINFO - Half a decade after it shuttered its exhibition space in Long Island City, the Museum for African Art announced on Friday that it would delay opening its new Upper East Side building by at least five more months as a result of construction delays. Slated to open in April 2011, the Robert A. M. Stern-designed museum will not be inaugurated until at least September 2011, according to he museum?s director, Elsie McCabe Thompson.
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Daniel Libeskind's German War Museum Rumbles To Its Finish, With an Arrow in Its Heart
(ARTINFO)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
ARTINFO - Dresden's Museum of Military History has existed in a variety of incarnations over the years, each mirroring the successive regime that shaped its image. Established in 1897 in a stately neoclassical building that once housed an arsenal, the museum became a celebration of German military might under the Nazis. Its location outside the historic center of Dresden allowed the building to survive the Allied bombing campaign at the end of World War II; thereafter it proudly displayed Communist tanks and submarines under East German rule. In 1989, Germany's Bundeswehr ? or Federal Defense Force ? was unsure how the museum would fit into the newly unified German state, deciding to simply shut it down.
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The United States Picks Allora & Calzadilla for the 54th Venice Biennale
(ARTINFO)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
ARTINFO - After almost a year of speculation, the Puerto Rico?based multimedia duo Allora & Calzadilla has been announced as the United States' representatives to the 2011 Venice Biennale, marking the first time that an artist pair or collective has been picked by the nation to fill the prestigious role. The selection was made by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which the U.S. State Department has entrusted to organize next year's pavilion; Lisa Freiman, the chair of the museum?s contemporary art department, has been tapped as the commissioner of the pavilion. She will also curate the presentation.
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