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An Ill-Fated Masterpiece Brings Together China and Taiwan
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Friday, July 30, 2010
ARTINFO - After several months of diplomatic talks, the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou announced its decision yesterday to loan the painting Broken Mountains, one of two remaining fragments of Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang's "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains," to Taiwan?s National Palace Museum, which holds the other section of the painting. A joint exhibition to mark the historic reunion of the two pieces, which have been separated for 350 years, is now scheduled to run from June through September of 2011 as an unusually warm cultural exchange between China and Taiwan.
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Schiele's "Wally" Shown in New York, with a Clear Conscience
(ARTINFO)
Friday, July 30, 2010
ARTINFO - Egon Schieles notorious Nazi-looted "Portrait of Wally" has had a dramatic run in New York, having been seized by federal authorities after being loaned to MoMA for a show in 1997. Now that the decade-long restitution case between the Austrian Leopold Foundation and the heirs of the work's original owner, Jewish collector Lea Bondi Jaray, has been settled, the work has gone on view at another New York institution, the Museum of Jewish Heritage ? only this time, with a clear conscience.
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Franz Kline's Rather Large Liquor Bill
(ARTINFO)
Friday, July 30, 2010
ARTINFO - The Abstract Expressionists liked to drink. For Pollock, that passion abetted his demise; for Rothko, it provided fuel for his creative process. When Franz Kline ordered alcohol from John Heller?s Liquor Store in Greenwich Village on December 31, 1960 ? presumably for a New Year?s Eve Party ? he seemed to have been expecting some big drinkers: his total bill was more than $274.
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Sotheby's Sales Figures Suggest Big Rebound for Asian Art Market
(ARTINFO)
Friday, July 30, 2010
ARTINFO - Is the Asian art market experiencing a stronger rebound from the recession than any other art-market sector? There seems to be a very strong indication that the answer is yes, or at least that is what the sales figures at Sotheby?s, the world's leading publicly-traded auction house, suggest.
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New "Fair Use" Rules Promise Open Season in Academia
(ARTINFO)
Friday, July 30, 2010
ARTINFO - It may be the dead of summer, the doldrums of the academic calendar, but multimedia professors ? and potentially artists ? have plenty of reason to party thanks to new "fair use" rules issued by the U.S. Copyright Office that allow the legal decryption and projection of excerpts of copyrighted material for educational purposes. In addition to meaning that college students will be treated to a great deal more feature-film content in the future, the changes also serve to clear consciences ? or, more to the point, any hints of liability ? for art students looking to creatively play with copyright-protected multimedia.
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Leaning Tower of Pisa No Longer at Risk of Collapse
(ARTINFO)
Friday, July 30, 2010
ARTINFO - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is no longer leaning quite so perilously, according to Italian engineers and scientists who say the medieval landmark's ever-increasing tilt has been stabilized. Although the tower will never be brought fully upright ? which would diminish its appeal, anyway ?? two decades of work by the Committee for the Safeguard of the Leaning Tower has finally solved the 800-year riddle of what was causing the World Heritage Site's
mysteriously incline to the north.
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Architect Rafael Vi Chosen for New Edward Kennedy Institute
(ARTINFO)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
ARTINFO - Uruguayan architect Rafael Vi? has been selected to build the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, a planned educational facility that will abut the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The $60 million project, scheduled to break ground this fall, will include a 44,000-square-foot building with two stories of space for an exhibit hall detailing the politician's storied life and 46-year senate career, a re-creation of his senate office, an oral history archive, and educational facilities.
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Those Ardent School Days: Steven Meisel for Balenciaga
(ARTINFO)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
ARTINFO - Steven Meisel, one of the premier fashion photographers working today, has teamed up with fashion house Balenciaga (the founder of which, Crist? Balenciaga, was once dubbed "the master of us all" by Christian Dior, no sartorial slouch himself) to present the label?s Fall/Winter 2010/11 campaign. Featuring some of the top models of the moment (such as Stella Tennant), Meisel?s series of images is composed of close-up portraits of the models alongside wider shots of the women standing in small groups.
All are photographed against a lurid, fiery backdrop that looks one-part Southwestern sunset, one-part blazing wildfire.
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Hungary Hit with Enormous Nazi Loot Claim
(ARTINFO)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
ARTINFO - In what could be the single largest Nazi restitution claim in history, descendants of Hungarian banker Baron Mor Lipot Herzog have filed suit against Hungary in U.S. court, alleging that the nation is holding more than 40 works of art that were stolen from Herzog during World War II.
The new lawsuit comes a week after another
notorious restitution case involving Egon Schiele's "Portrait of
Wally" was settled in a U.S. court, allowing the Nazi-looted work
to remain in the hands of Austria's Leopold Foundation upon the payment
of $19 million to the heirs of the work's original owner.?
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Dom Pgnon Drinks to Warhol in New Campaign
(ARTINFO)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
ARTINFO - It's a mark of how much Andy Warhol's reputation has matured ? indeed fermented ? since his amphetamine-fueled days as the art world's cipher and high society's indulgence that Dom P?gnon has hitched its latest promotional campaign to the artist. The venerable champagne company has introduced a new limited-edition collection of three bottles created by Central Saint Martin's Design Laboratory that pay tribute to Warhol through labels that evoke the sometimes garish colors of the artist's Pop masterpieces, from his famed "Death and Disaster" (look at that red) to his more venal commissioned portraits.
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