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State and Federal Legal Issues
1. NEW YORK - There has for some years been a trend for people to sue art historians and scholars who do not give the 'right' opinion on a work of art. An academic or curator says your picture is a...
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Max Anderson Leaves the Dallas Museum of Art Fall 2015
Max Anderson has left the Dallas Museum. I have compiled articles from various sources that have suggested that this was not a friendly departure. I will leave that judgment for you. Regardless of who...
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Auctions Fall 2015
1. LONDON.- Phillips will offer at auction a rare and important collection of 32 etchings by Lucian Freud, one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century and a modern master of printmaking. The...
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Art Investment - Contemporary African Art Fall 2015
1. NEW YORK - CNN Amid strong demand and skyrocketing prices, contemporary African art is increasingly attracting the attention of investors worldwide.While that might irk the purest at heart among...
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Fakes and Forgeries Fall 2015
1. THE HAGUE (AFP).- Forgotten for two decades, a dusty old canvas hidden in a corner of a small Dutch museum has been revealed as a painting by American artist James Whistler. "Thanks to chemical...
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My Word Fall 2015
After the Antiques Roadshow wrapped up the last show of Season 20 in Charleston, South Carolina, we reflected a bit what this achievement meant to the forty or so appraisers who have been with the show...
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The Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Salvator Mundi Fall 2015
1. DALLAS - The Dallas Morning News - Michael Granberry Published: 18 December 2012Visitors to the Dallas Museum of Art won’t be seeing Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi after all. Its owners have...
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American Indian Art Magazine Closings Fall 2015
American Indian Art Magazine has been an extremely important part of this interested in ethnographic art worldwide. The magazine provided valuable scholarly information solicited from the many...
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In The News Fall 2015
1. NEW YORK It’s not every day that an American artist receives an email alerting them that someone halfway around the world has just won an award for unauthorized and blatant reproductions of their...
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Repatriation Fall 2015
1. BERLIN African art dots museums across Europe and North America, gracing countries where many Africans would be hard pressed to get a visa. In the Neues museum in Berlin, the bust of Queen Nefertiti...
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Tribal Art Around The World Fall 2015
1.VANCOUVER.- On the heels of a successful public presentation of the conceptual design for a new museum building by Herzog & de Meuron, the Vancouver Art Gallery announced the donation of a...
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Museums Fall 2015
1. LONDON (AFP).- Spanish painter Francisco de Goya's stark portrayals of Spanish aristocrats, intellectuals and fellow artists in a major new exhibition at the National Gallery in London aims to show...
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October 2015 - Newsletter of the Committee for Cultural PolicyThis month's newsletter brings you an eye-opening report debunking the ivory/terrorism financing myth, articles on the first-ever...
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Photos from Around The World Fall 2015
Camel Races - OmanFrost on a Romanian VillageBeginning of a Bad DayPapua New Guinea WarrioraHeavy Metal Musician - Changes in the Arab WorldNamibian Desert by Moonlight with the Milky Way Galaxy
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Folk Art Fall 2015
Crayon and Pencil on Paper23" X 30"c. 1990Simon TookoomeJudith and Patric Blackburn CollectionCrayon and Pencil on Paper18 1/2" X 22 1/2"Sammy LandersArlansas"Truck To Hell"Painted Wood and Plastic...
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CARE AND FEEDING OF ART 2015 - Christmas 2015
1. NEW YORK - “There was a smell of rotting food, rotting chips, rotting meat,” Christopher Redgrave, son of the sculptor William Redgrave, told a journalist, describing the scene he found when...
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US GOVERNMENT - Christmas 2015
1. NEW YORK — Private Museums Tax Status Gets Examined by Senators: The Senate Finance Committee is looking into some dozen private museums owned by individual collectors, asking if their tax-exempt...
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TERRORISM IN THE ART WORLD - Christmas 2015
1. NEW YORK October 29, 2015. A NY Times Opinion piece by Tristan McConnell, The Ivory-Funded Terrorism Myth, debunks the supposed links between terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab (the East African...
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LEGAL ISSUES - Christmas 2015
1. BEIJING - The announcement Friday that the United States and China will work together to enact “nearly complete bans” on the import and export of ivory represents the most significant step yet in...
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TRIBAL ART ARCHAEOLOGY - Christmas 2015
1. QUINHAGAK, ALASKA Yupik Bear Mask (University of Aberdeen) —This season’s excavation at Nunalleq, or the well-preserved Yup’ik “old village” on the coast of the Bering Sea, has uncovered a mask...
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