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Art Basel Miami Beach: America’s Favorite Art Show
The sixth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach takes place in Miami Beach, Florida (USA), from December 6 through 9, 2007. On the eve of the opening, invited guests from around the world will attend the glamorous Vernissage. Over 40,000 art lovers are expected to visit the international art show. 200 carefully selected galleries from 30 countries will be showcasing all forms of artistic expression (paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, photography, editions, performances, and videos). Prices start at a few hundred dollars for multiples and works by young artists, and soar into the millions for museum-quality masterpieces.
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SCOPE: Miami’s Original Emerging Art Fair
Scope, Miami’s original emerging art fair, returns for its sixth year in Miami, expanded in size and global in reach, with 98 exhibitors from 22 countries, and a new 60,000 square foot pavilion at 101 NW 34th Street (NW 2nd Avenue) in Roberto Clemente Park in the Wynwood Art District.
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Photo Miami Returns To Wynwood Art District
photo MIAMI, the International Contemporary Art Fair for Photo-Based Art, Video, and New Media, returns to the Wynwood Art District, in an exciting new location, when the event takes place during Art Basel Miami Beach, December 4-9. Organized by artfairs, inc., producer of globally acclaimed photography and contemporary art fairs in Los Angeles, the second annual fair will be staged in a 40,000-sq. ft. marquee structure at NW 31st street and North Miami Avenue, just steps away from the Rubell Family Collection and the developing Midtown Miami district.
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Art Miami: New Dates. New Location. New Venue
To navigate Art Miami, a visitor need only seek out Tony Oursler’s phantasmagoric "Purple Resonant Dust" (2006). Suspended from the ceiling, the globe of swirling purple clouds and spookily disembodied figures will be a lodestar amid the bustle of the 100,000 sq-ft art fair, a newcomer to the December scene in Miami.
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Florence Biennale: An Event-Filled Biennale
The sixth edition of the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art will take place at the historic Fortezza da Basso from 1st - 9th December, 2007. 840 artists coming from 76 countries will be exhibiting more than 2,500 artworks and there will be an extraordinary meeting of cultures, languages and diverse artistic styles.
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Lineart 2007: An Art Lover´s Treat
From 30 November to 4 December 2007, every genuine art lover should be at the central hall of Flanders Expo in Ghent, according to the new team of the 26th edition of LINEART, the international art fair for ethnographic, modern and contemporary art. Project leader Ward Caes and his colleagues, Paule De Boeck, Kristel Van de Rostijne, André Francq, Jan De Geest and Paul Bailleul, want to develop LINEART as a platform whose primary objective is to offer top quality art works for sale.
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Contemporary Istanbul: A rising star in the world of art fairs
Highly anticipated by both the international art community and Turkish art lovers alike, the second edition of the Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair will run between November 28 and December 2 at the International Convention and Exhibition Center (Lütfi Kirdar Uluslararasi Kongre ve Sergi Sarayi) in Istanbul.
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De Niro Sues Salander-O´Reilly Galleries
Robert de Niro is suing Salander-O´Reilly Galleries after it sold his late father´s paintings without permission to help pay off a US$5 million debt. De Niro´s publicist, Stan Rosenfield, claims twelve paintings were given to the Benucci S.r.l. by Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York as part of an agreement.
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Christie´s Latin American Sale, Hoy and Mañana
Christie’s will present its most valuable Latin American Sale, expected to realize in excess of $22 million, on November 19 and 20 in New York. Leading the November 19 evening sale is Rufino Tamayo’s important masterpiece, "Trovador", which reflects his signature style of semiabstracted forms and mastery of color (estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000), and a very rare appearance on the market of a work by Remedios Varo, "Exploración de las fuentes del río Orinoco" (estimate: $400,000-600,000). With over 300 lots, the two day auction offers works by the most important Latin American artists such as Fernando Botero, Joaquín Torres García, Diego Rivera, Matta, Wifredo Lam, and Claudio Bravo.
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American Airlines One-of-a-Kind Mural
Visitors to Bryant Park on Monday morning will have the chance to become artists for a day, as they help put the finishing touches on a three-dimensional canvas mural derived from a new painting by renowned painter Charles Fazzino. The artwork is called "A Legacy of Service to New York," a colorful view of Manhattan Island landmarks looking from the Battery up to the Bronx, which celebrates American Airlines 80 years of service to the Greater New York community.
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Modernism: A Century of Style and Design
At its introduction to Sanford Smith’s fall season in 1986, Modernism: A Century of Style and Design was the first fair to devote its attention to fine European and American design movements of the twentieth century. Now, 22 years later, it remains the premier exposition and sale of fine and decorative arts presenting Art Deco, Arts and Crafts, Wiener Werkstätte, Scandinavian, the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, and Post Modern design movements.
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Ireland´s Biggest Visual Arts Event
Thousands of works by dozens of artists go on view under a single roof when the eighth annual Art Ireland art fair takes place in the Main Hall RDS, Dublin from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th November 2007. The country's biggest visual arts event of the year, over 175 galleries and independent artists are taking part in Art Ireland 2007, presenting members of the art buying public with the chance to view an enormous range of paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs and other works of art.
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Paris Photo - The Eye of the World
On the course of the decade since it first began, Paris Photo has won recognition as the world’s premier fair for still photography. This unique event offers an in-depth and broad view of the medium, with the best of fine art photography from the earliest days to the present time and a forward-looking survey of what’s happening in this art form today.
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Museum Quality Works For Sale At ART20
"A predominance of prominent dealers exhibiting 20th century modernist work and a sprinkling of younger galleries showing zesty contemporary art characterizes Art20," remarks The New York Times’ Benjamin Genocchio of Sanford Smith’s youngest fair. This November, for the 6th year, collectors, curators and art lovers from all over the world will gather in the Park Avenue Armory to participate in an emerging tradition and the discovery of contemporary classics at the fall season’s paramount art exhibition in New York. One can expect to find museum quality works for sale in an array of mediums including paintings, prints, photography and sculpture.
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Trafalgar Square Sculpture Unveiled
Model for a Hotel 2007, which has been created by the leading German artist Thomas Schütte for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, was unveiled yesterday by the Mayor of London. The glass sculpture is an architectural model of a twenty-one storey building, constructed in specially engineered red, yellow and blue glass and weighing over 8 tonnes.
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Ullens Art Center Opens In China
The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), founded by the Ullens family from Belgium, opened on Nov. 5, with an inaugural exhibition exploring the 1980. The exhibition, called "'85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art", is the first comprehensive display of Chinese contemporary art work largely from 1985 to 1990, which was "a revolutionary period in art history", according to the UCCA Artistic Director Fei Dawei.
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International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin
131 galleries from 17 countries: an overview of the best international research in the field of visual arts. A project by Andrea Bellini, director of the Fair from 2007, Artissima 14 aims to offer the highest cultural standards and product quality. A contemporary art fair designed to satisfy the expectations and intellectual curiosity of the most sophisticated art lovers and of the most important Italian and international collectors, but also one that fosters the emergence and development of a young and specialised form of collecting focusing on the artists of the future.
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"The Madonna Of The Carnation" Art On 2007 Holiday Stamp
The beauty and serenity of "The Madonna of the Carnation" featured on the masterpiece by Milanese Renaissance painter Bernardino Luini will represent the spirit of Christmas during the 2007 winter mailing season. The U.S. Postal Service issued the 41-cent stamp at a ceremony at the 2007 Mega Stamp Show at Madison Square Garden, New York City.
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