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Famed Brazilian Artist's Work to be Auctioned at Oct. 24 Event WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Romero Britto will create an original work of art that will be auctioned at the Oct. 24 Heroes of the Hemisphere celebration in Miami, the Pan American Development Foundation announced today. www.HeroesoftheHemisphere.org "As an artist, it is my desire to share a vision of hope, happiness and beauty with the world," says Britto. "PADF's...
SWANSEA, Wales, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- David Gill, archaeologist, reflects on the impact of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) policy on the acquisition of antiquities. In June 2008 the AAMD adopted a "New Report on Acquisition of Archaeological Materials and Ancient Art". The reports stated that AAMD members -- 193 at present -- "should not acquire a work unless research substantiates that the work was outside its country of probable modern discovery before 1970 or was legally...
SWANSEA, Wales, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- David Gill, archaeologist, reflects on the news that Giacomo Medici has lost his appeal in the Italian courts. The Geneva-based antiquities dealer Giacomo Medici has been the focus of attention since police raids on his Geneva warehouse in the Freeport back in the mid 1990s. Objects seized from the facility shed light on a well-beaten track between looted archaeological sites in Italy and dealers in northern Europe. The paper trail also pointed to...
NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- ARTstor and the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) have announced a collaboration through which the CPPC will share hundreds of images of colonial, modern, and contemporary Latin American art through the ARTstor Digital Library (www.artstor.org). The partnership will broaden educational and scholarly access to these important works, which include examples by such major artists as Helio Oiticica, Tomas Maldonado, Lygia Pape, and Joaquin...
Leading Antiquities Dealer Urges Other Dealers to Follow Suit NEW YORK and GENEVA, May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Phoenix Ancient Art, the world's leading dealer in rare treasures from ancient Western civilizations, announced today that it has voluntarily repatriated 251 antiquities valued at $2.7 Million (EU 2Million) to the State of Italy. "We returned these ancient artifacts in the spirit of cooperation and collaboration with the international art world, and to demonstrate Phoenix's commitment...
Press Preview: Friday, January 23, 10am-12noon LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures (on view January 25 to April 19, 2009), the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the range of art created during the Cold War. Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures continues LACMA's tradition of thematic explorations of twentieth century German art in its political, social, and historical contexts...
By T.J. Greaney, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo. Jun. 21--On the morning of May 19, 1780, the sky over New England turned a dark red. By noon, people were conducting business by candlelight, nocturnal birds had taken flight and flowers had closed their petals. In the deeply religious Colonies, many people thought Judgment Day was upon them. "Men prayed, and women wept," wrote poet John Greenleaf Whittier in a poem composed years later. "All ears grew sharp/to hear the...
Damien Hirst has taken the unusual decision to put dozens of new artworks under the hammer. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever will feature pieces created by the 43-year-old Leeds-born artist over the past two years. The highlight will be The Golden Calf, a bull in formaldehyde whose head is crowned by a solid gold disc and whose hooves and horns are cast in 18-carat solid gold. The work, encased in a gold-plated stainless steel and glass box, is expected to fetch up to Pounds 12m, less than...
By Dennis Pinchuk ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Historic Russian art worth nearly $5 million has vanished from the Hermitage, one of the world's greatest museums, its director said on Tuesday, with suspicion falling on members of staff. Auditors noticed the loss of pieces of silver and enamel, made by Russian craftsmen in the Middle Ages and 19th century, in stock-taking last month. News agencies said the lost artworks included icons, religious works and items with precious...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston's Museum of Fine Arts this week reached a tentative agreement with the Italian government to return objects suspected of being plundered antiquities. The museum will transfer "certain objects of Italian origin in the Museum's collection to Italy," it said in a statement. In return Italy has agreed to loan pieces to the museum to be displayed in special exhibitions, the two sides said. Museum spokeswoman Kelly Gifford would not say which items would be shipped...
