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Italian Master Caravaggio and Francis Bacon connect at Galleria Borghese in Rome

ROME, Italy – Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in new exhibition connecting their tormented views of humanity despite contrasting approaches to realism. The show at Rome’s Galleria Borghese marks 400 years since Caravaggio’s death and 100 years since Bacon’s... [Read more of this review]

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Recent Paintings by Jane Wilson on View at DC Moore Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery opens an exhibition of Jane Wilson’s Recent Paintings. A Comprehensive monograph on the American artist, Jane Wilson, will be published by Merrell, London, in October 2009. Jane Wilson: Horizons celebrates her sixty-year career, from her immersion in the vibrant New York art world of the 1950s and 1960s to her current... [Read more of this review]

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Picasso Artworks at New Delhi by Fundación Mapfre

NEW DELHI.- Today, Fundación Mapfre and the Cervantes Institute have opened the exhibition ‘Vollard Suite’ by Pablo Picasso. It will be on show in the exhibitions halls at the aforementioned centre until January 24, 2010. The exhibition includes 100 prints created by Picasso between 13th September 1930 and March 1937, commissioned by the art dealer... [Read more of this review]

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Amsterdam’s prime prostitution district in the National Gallery

You walk down a grim alley, peering through smeary, red-lit windows at 11 “girls”: their bodies are plaster casts, their heads poached from shop dummies and encased in glass-fronted boxes. One washes her crotch at the sink; another in fur coat and boots waits in the street; a blonde with her arms folded has harshly glamorous make-up and a black... [Read more of this review]

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Art Market

Warhol Fetches $43.7 Million at Auction

New York: Serious money has flowed back into the international art market at New York’s autumn sales, although still bypassing some of the big ticket items. The November sales at Sotheby’s and rival Christie’s in New York marked something of a recovery from the low point during the financial crisis erupting last year. While prices are not yet... [Read more of this review]

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Andy Warhol’s Michael Jackson Portrait Sells for $812K

NEW YORK — A 1984 Michael Jackson portrait by pop-art icon Andy Warhol surpassed estimates to fetch 812,500 dollars at auction on Tuesday, but two headline pieces at the Christie’s sale in New York flopped. Warhol’s “Tunafish Disaster,” a 1963 silkscreen depicting two housewives who died from poisoned tuna, had to be withdrawn... [Read more of this review]

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Yves Saint Laurent’s Everyday Objects to be Auctioned by Christie’s

PARIS (AP).- The 18th-century porcelain Yves Saint Laurent ate from, a Cartier watch he used to wear, the leopard-print couches and gilded chairs he lounged on: It’s all to hit the auction blocks as the late French couturier’s longtime partner liquidates their art-and-knicknack-filled residences. The sale, organized by Christie’s from... [Read more of this review]

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Old Masters of the Golden Age at Sotheby’s Amsterdam in December

AMSTERDAM.- Sotheby’s Amsterdam will, going forward, hold two sales of Old Master Paintings every year (one in May and the second in December) and the first of these new-format sales will be held on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 2p.m. This sale will comprise some 69 lots – many with exemplary provenance having not appeared on the market for... [Read more of this review]

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Artists & People

HOPE Artist Shepard Fairey can Switch Lawyers in Associated Press Suit

NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Artist Shepard Fairey can be questioned by lawyers on why he changed his story about which 2006 photograph he used to create the famous Barack Obama HOPE poster, a judge said Tuesday as he also granted a request to let Fairey change lawyers. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein made the decision during a pre-trial hearing... [Read more of this review]

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British art curator Nick Waterlow and daughter murdered in Sydney

A British art curator and his daughter were found dead of multiple stab wounds at a million-dollar home in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs on Monday night. The Australian art community was in shock over the gruesome deaths which were discovered after police broke into a house in Randwick and found the bodies of Nick Waterlow, 68, and his daughter... [Read more of this review]

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Unearthly Art: Astronaut Alan Bean paints moon from unique perspective

SEYMOUR — There may be many artists, but only one can lay claim to having stepped on the surface of a heavenly body. Astronaut Alan Bean couldn’t be prouder of his career as an astronaut on the 1969 Apollo 12 moon mission, but that was then. Now, he’s an artist whose historic past achievements in space have made him a singular sensation in what... [Read more of this review]

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101 Western painters you should know

1. PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) – Picasso is to Art History a giant earthquake with eternal aftermaths. With the possible exception of Michelangelo (who focused his greatest efforts in sculpture and architecture), no other artist had such ambitions at the time of placing his oeuvre in the history of art. Picasso created the avant-garde. Then Picasso... [Read more of this review]

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Design & Architecture

Museums Giving Unemployed Architects Something To Do

As the dormant construction sites all over the city can attest, with the bust of New York’s building boom, being an architect in this city has gone from being lucrative to depressing. The Bronx Museum of the Arts and MoMA are doing what they can to keep architects and urban planners busy, though, with two design programs to re-imagine forgotten... [Read more of this review]

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