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Churchill´s "Marrakech" To Be Auctioned By Sotheby´s
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) was one of the great statesmen of the 20th Century but it is his paintings that have put him in the spotlight over the last year or so. In July of this year Sotheby’s sold a view of his home, "Chartwell Landscape with Sheep", for £1 million – a new auction record for a work by him (by nearly twice the previous record) – while in December last year, a Moroccan scene entitled "View of Tinherir" that Churchill had gifted to General George C. Marshall, fetched £612,800, again at a Sotheby’s auction.
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Fifteen Women From Fifteen Countries Portrayed By Fifteen Woman Photographers
For the "Strength and Beauty Project", a series of extraordinary portraits were created capturing the multi-faceted strength and beauty of today’s woman. TAG Heuer brought together an array of personalities with exceptional talent and charisma. Each a recognized leader in her domain, the 15 individuals selected (artists, founders of development organizations, journalists, executives and academics) were paired with prestigious women photographers from their own countries. After lengthy preparation, the ambitious project became reality in the late spring of 2006, when photo shoots were held in major cities around the world, including Paris, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Bangkok and Singapore.
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JPMorgan And Pera Museum Partner To Tour Renowned Corporate Art Collection
JPMorgan announces a collaborative partnership with the Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation’s Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey to present master artworks from the firm’s JPMorgan Chase Art Collection as a special exhibition. The exhibition, entitled: "Collected Visions", will feature 70 modern and contemporary works by leading artists of the 20th century in three floors of the Pera galleries.
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IU Art Museum Building Lights Up With 25th Anniversary Celebration
The Indiana University Art Museum building will celebrate its 25th birthday with the power of 500 million candles. On Oct. 26, the switch will be flipped on the 25th Anniversary Light Totem, a dazzling light installation illuminating a 70-foot freestanding tower, a 40-foot-long tube within the atrium, and the building's south exterior wall. Three searchlights will further highlight the building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M. Pei.
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TIAF Celebrates Its Eighth Annual Fair
Art Toronto 2007, the eighth annual Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF), opens its doors on October 25 with a record number of galleries, a wider range of contemporary participation and an expanded, fresher cultural programming. Based on consistent year-to-year overwhelming success and followed by record number of applicants, the TIAF 2007 Advisory Committee has selected 100 galleries for participation in this year show.
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A Bear´s Video Is Favourite For Turner Prize 2007
British artist, Mark Wallinger, hot favourite for the 2007 prize, has entered a single work this year´s Turner Prize, a video of himself dressed in a furry bear suit wandering as if in a daze around the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. For 10 nights, Wallinger was locked inside the gallery alone. On the final night, he filmed himself in the costume on three cameras.
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The Ultimate Jeff Koons: Diamond (Blue)
Dazzling, magnificent, gigantically grotesque and staggeringly beautiful, Jeff Koons’s "Diamond (Blue)", 1994-2005 (estimate on request) will be the spectacular centerpiece of Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on November 13 in New York. Part of the famed Celebration series, Blue Diamond (a sculpture that occupies not only a seminal place in Koons’s body of work but also in his personal life) will present collectors with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire an oeuvre clef by one of the most important artists of our time.
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French Archeologists Discovered World´s Oldest Wall Painting In Syria
French archeologists discovered the world´s oldest wall painting in northern Syria. The wall painting looks like a modern art work. Dated using radiocarbon records from around 9,000BC, the two m2 painting was found at the Neolithic settlement of Djade al-Mughara on the Euphrates, which has been excavated since the early 1990s.
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German Museum Wins RIBA Architecture Prize
The Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar, Germany, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, has won the 12th RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects' Journal. The RIBA Stirling Prize is given for the RIBA Building of the Year. It is run in association with The Architects' Journal and is presented to the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of architecture in the past year.
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Osbournes To Auction Possessions
Julien’s Auctions is honored to offer furnishings, art and memorabilia from the collection of rock ‘n’ roll royalty Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne. The two-day sale will be held at Gibson Guitar Showroom, Beverly Hills, CA on Friday and Saturday, November 30th and December 1st. More than 600 lots of memorabilia, jewelry, costumes, paintings, furniture and decorative works of art from the Osbourne’s Gothic style home in Beverly Hills, their Shabby Chic Malibu home and their Buckinghamshire mansion in England will be sold with a portion of the proceeds being donated to benefit the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Foundation.
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Third Version Of ArtBo 2007
With the purpose of turning Bogotá into a more attractive city for the tourism, to attract national and foreign investment and to dinamize the commerce, for third consecutive year will take place the Bogota International Art Fair, ArtBo 2007, organized by Camara de Comercio de Bogota (Bogotá’s Chamber of Commerce).
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Exceptional And Unrecorded Rothschild Fabergé Egg
Christie’s announce that they will offer at auction a remarkable discovery, The Rothschild Fabergé Egg. Previously unrecorded and an addition to no more than 12 documented examples known to have been made to Imperial standards for anyone other than the Russian Imperial Family, this exceptional work of craftsmanship is expected to realise £6 million to £9 million ($12 to $18 million) and potentially establish a new world record price for a Russian object. The Rothschild Fabergé Egg will be offered at the auction of Russian Works of Art on 28 November 2007, and will highlight Russian Art Week, a series of auctions dedicated to Russian Pictures, Works of Art, Books, Manuscripts and Icons which will take place in London from 26 to 29 November 2007.
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LAPADA: An Event Of Distinction
The Centaur at Cheltenham Racecourse again hosts The LAPADA Autumn Antiques and Fine Art Fair which takes place from Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th October 2007. Around 65 dealers, all members of LAPADA, the UK’s largest association of professional dealers, will showcase an amazing range of art and antiques from all corners of the globe. The fair is sponsored by Knight Frank. The Fair’s benefiting charity HFT (Supporting People with Learning Disabilities), is holding a glitzy champagne reception on Friday 12th October from 6pm to 9pm.
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Giant Spider By Artist Louise Bourgeois At The Tate
A nine meter (30 feet) spider by French artist Louise Bourgeois was unveiled at the Tate Modern (UK). The creature is made of bronze, stainless steel and marble. The spider is named "Maman" in tribute to the artist´s mother. Bronze casts of "Maman" are on permanent display at The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, Mori Art Center in Tokyo and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
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Bridge London Galleries Kick Ass
Bridge Art Fair brings together over 60 galleries, artist collectives, alternative spaces and consultancies for London’s art fair weekend, filling the Trafalgar Hotel with emerging and renowned artists from both the largest art capitals as well as unexpected hotbeds of artistic activity. Like a group portrait, the collected spaces represent some of the brightest and freshest faces in contemporary art. Shanghai, Los Angeles, Paris, Düsseldorf, San Francisco, Williamsburg, Chicago, London, Tokyo – Bridge London will be a true, if not temporary, portrait of what’s relevant to artists and viewers today.
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