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           Breaking News:   The ICA is hosting a new work by famed conceptual artist Jenny Holzer. Instead of a canvas, Holzer is using the exterior of the ICA’s waterfront building.     Appleton Art Center has acquired a collection that executive director Timothy Riley calls an encyclopedia of American, European, Asian and African art, and a $1 million endowment to maintain it.     The Gibbes Museum of Art is pleased to announce two new hires and several staff promotions.     The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College is getting $1.25 million to help faculty use the museum’s collections as a teaching resource.     The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the selection of Lisa Ayla Çakmak as the 2010–2013 Mellon Fellow for European art to 1800.     University of the Arts London faces an increased cut to its central Government funding, with the release of the finalised budgets from the Higher Education Funding Council for England.     The Leopold Museum in Vienna has agreed to pay $19 million U.S. to the heirs of a Jewish art dealer in exchange for a painting stolen from their ancestor by the Nazis in 1939.        artnowMAG   Send us your comments or top stories to info@artnowmag.com
 
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Portrait Of Wally Returns To Vienna

On 20 July 2010, settlement was reached between the Leopold Museum Private Foundation (LMPF) and the Estate of Lea Bondi-Jaray with regard to the painting "Portrait of Wally" by Egon Schiele; according to this arrangement, the Foundation will pay nineteen million dollars and have the portrait returned. As it is widely known, the painting had been seized by a New York district court following an exhibition of LMPF-owned works at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1998.

07/22/2010 SFMOMA Selects Snohetta To Work With Museum On Design Of Expansion
07/21/2010 Earliest Known English Hanukah Lamp Saved For The Jewish Museum
07/20/2010 Maja Hoffman Appointed Tate Trustee


REPORTS   BOOKS

Giorgio Morandi Exhibition And Workshop At ShContemporary

The Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, MAMbo, with the support of the Region of Emilia- Romagna, in co-operation with ShContemporary, will celebrate the work of one of the most admired Italian painters of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi. The Italian master’s extensive array of contemplative and introspective still-lifes, landscapes, engravings and etchings have earned him a distinctive place in Modern art history.

 
"A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon's Arizona" by Thomas Brent Smith and Donald J. Hagerty

Western painter Maynard Dixon once pronounced "Arizona" "the magic name of a land bright and mysterious, of sun and sand, of tragedy and stark endeavor." "So long had I dreamed of it," he professed, "that when I came there it was not strange to me. Its sun was my sun; its ground was my ground." The California-born Dixon (1875-1946) first traveled to Arizona in 1900 to absorb what he believed was a vanishing West.

 
 
WORLD   LIFESTYLE

Appleton Art Center Recipient Of Art Collection And Endowment Fund

The Appleton Art Center recently announced that it will receive an art collection representing over 400 years of art history. The Trout Collection, assembled during the past 40 years by Dr. Monroe E. and Sandra Lemke Trout, is an eclectic mix of over 150 works of art, including American, European, Asian and African paintings, sculptures and other decorative objects. In addition to the collection, the Trouts have provided a $1 million endowment to preserve, protect and promote the collection.

 
iPhone 4 Arrives In 17 More Countries This Friday

Apple’s iPhone 4 will be available in 17 more countries this Friday, July 30. iPhone 4 features FaceTime, which makes video calling as easy as one tap, Apple’s new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in stunning text, images and video, and a beautiful all-new design of glass and stainless steel that is the thinnest smartphone in the world.

 
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Art Fairs & Biennials

SOFA WEST: Santa Fe   ( Chicago | USA )  Jul 08 - 11

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Auctions You Can't Miss This Month

Post War and Contemporary Art Day Auction (London, UK) Jul 01. Christie's

Fine and Rare Wines (London, UK) Jul 01. Bonhams

Old Master Paintings (London, UK) Jul 07. Bonhams

Old Masters and 19th Century Art (London, UK) Jul 09. Christie's

20th Century British Art (London, UK) Jul 15. Christie's

Watches (London, UK) Jul 15. Sotheby's

Antique Arms and Armour (London, UK) Jul 21. Bonhams

Christie's Interiors (New York, USA) Jul 23. Christie's

Collectors' Motor Cars and Related Automobilia (Silverstone, UK) Jul 24. Bonhams






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