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    Friday, March 31, 2006  
 
Indian Art set new records at Christie´s
Yesterday it was set a new record for Indian art in Christie´s auction just after two Indian artworks nearly reach the million dollars each at Sotheby´s.
Christie´s auction of Modern and Contemporary Indian Art reach the $15.6 million dollars.

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    Wednesday, March 29, 2006  
 
Matthew Pierog exhibition at Bernarducci Meisel Gallery
Frank Bernarducci and Louis K. Meisel are pleased to announce the exhibition of Still Life Paintings by Matthew Pierog, the artist’s third solo show at the Gallery. Evocative in both their simplicity of subject matter and expert technique, these works imply a dramatic interpretation that seems to hide just beneath the painted surface.
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    Tuesday, March 28, 2006  
 
ARTnews NOW
Wyeth "Something waits beneath it"; Art world lost Scottish artist Finlay; Britney Spears nude statue.
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    Monday, March 27, 2006  
 
"Masterpiece: A New Look at the Kimbell Collection"
This spring and summer the Kimbell Art Museum is making an exhibition of itself--featuring its world-famous collection more fully and spaciously than has been possible for some years. The Museum´s active program of loan exhibitions inevitably limits the amount of space in the galleries devoted to the collection. But during "Masterpiece: A New Look at the Kimbell Collection"
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    Friday, March 24, 2006  
 
Controversy in famous Archibald Prize
Marcus Wills has won the 2006 Archibald Prize for his painting "The Paul Juraszek monolith (after Marcus Gheeraerts)". The Archibald Prize is now in its 85th year and its fame for controversy will continue intact this year.
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    Wednesday, March 22, 2006  
 
Cellphone audio in Museums
Museums nationwide are changing their idea for the use of audio tours. We usually are asked to turn off our cellphones when we get to visit a Museum or we receive peculiar sights if we answer our mobiles while admiring the artworks. Now, the same Museums are asking to bring your cellphones and even use them.
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    Thursday, March 16, 2006  
 
Rauschenberg: Combines
Works from one of America's  greatest and most influential modern artist Robert Rauschenberg are on exhibition through April 2, at the Metropolitan.
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    Monday, March 13, 2006  
 
HP in the art reproduction
People in the art world may not think of Hewlett-Packard as a player in their business, but the technology company is about to change that. HP unveiled the initial fruits of an ambitious collaboration project with Kyoto International Culture Foundation in Japan to reproduce ancient artworks created between the 13th and 17th centuries found in over 3,500 shrines in the city of Kyoto.
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    Friday, March 10, 2006  
 
Edvard Munch exhibition at the MoMA, New York
One of the places I planned to visit during my stay in New York for the Armory Show was the MoMA Museum. This beautiful and re-designed museum is exhibiting the first major retrospective devoted to the work of the internationally renowned Edvard Munch to be held in an American museum in almost three decades. “Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul” will be available to the public until May 8, 2006. It is a must if you visit New York before that date.
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    Thursday, March 09, 2006  
 
Indian and Southeast Asian Art Auctions
It's Indian art's time in New York with Sotheby's and Christie's auctions later this month. Just a day before the Christie's previously announced March 30 auction, Sotheby's will offer its spring sale of Indian and Southeast Asian art.Syed Haider Raza seems to be the flavour of the moment with his "Tapovan" likely to go under the hammer at a whopping $800,000-1 million.
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    Tuesday, March 07, 2006  
 
Top 10 most visited exhibitions worldwide
Tokyo National Museum's "Hokusai", showing "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" and other 1820s views of Mount Fuji, was the best attended museum exhibition of 2005, according to Art Newspaper.
Japanese museums are having more presence in the Art World, leaving American and European museums relegated to secondary places in the list of most visited exhibitions.

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    Thursday, March 02, 2006  
 
American Master James Rosenquist Premieres New Work at MAM
American master James Rosenquist brings his unique brand of imagery to the Miami Art Museum’s New Work Gallery for his first U.S. museum exhibition since his forty-year retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2003. The exhibition, curated by MAM Assistant Director for Special Projects/Curator Lorie Mertes will be on view from March 3 to July 2.
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