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TECHNOLOGY - Christmas 2015
1. LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND—Researchers from the Idiap Research Institute of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the College of Humanities are working...
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REPATRIATION - Christmas 2015
1. MUNCIE, INDIANA—Operation Hidden Idols, carried out by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), has recovered a Festival Bronze of Shiva and...
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MUSEUMS TRIBAL ART - Christmas 2015
1. OTTAWA.- Walker's Fine Art & Estate Auctions' Inuit and First Nations Live Art Auction realized phenomenal results with CAD$1.4 million in total sales, and overall sell-through rates of 103% of...
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AUCTIONS - Christmas 2015
1. NEW YORK (AFP).- Christie's on Monday smashed world record prices at auction for Amedeo Modigliani and Roy Lichtenstein, selling works by the artists for $170.4 million and $95.37 million...
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SAVING THE ART - Christmas 2015
1. PARIS France Proposes Safe Harbor for Syrian Antiquities. November 19, 2015. French President Francois Hollande proposed bringing Syrian antiquities to France for safekeeping, in an address to...
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ARCHAEOLOGY - Christmas 2015
1. GENEVA (AFP).- A Swiss fruit-and-vegetable farmer stumbled across more than tree roots when inspecting his cherry orchard recently, uncovering a massive trove of coins buried some 1,700 years...
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BOOKS YOU SHOULD BUY - Christmas 2015
1. BEVERLY HILLS - African Art and Silicon Chips by Jay Last. This book spans Last's African art collecting years from the 1950's to the present from his perspective. Jay mentions the dealers,...
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African Art and Silicon Chips: A Life in Science and Art - Jay Last
African Art and Silicon Chips: A Life in Science and Art is Jay T. Last’s insightful and illuminating memoir of over four decades spent collecting African art. It is a must-read for collectors,...
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My Word - Christmas 2015
Closing another year - my 41st in business - is in some ways a good thing. 2015 saw increased government intervention in our business with the promise of more to come. Somehow terrorism, appropriately...
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OUTSIDER ART MARKET - Winter 2016
For a number of years the gallery has been involved in outsider art primarily from self taught southern artists. While there is certainly a high end to this market, there are a number of artists many...
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ART AND TERRORISM - Winter 2016
Unfortunately, we really don't even know how bad the destruction of ancient sites is at the hands of ISIS. However, some never let a crisis go to waste so immediately there are those that put forth the...
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LEGAL Winter 2016
1. NEW YORK - Gagosian Gallery and Qataris wrangle over Picasso sculptureNew York law filings peek into the secretive dealings of private, multi-million-dollar international art sales by Helen Stoilas...
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AUCTION MARKET Winter 2016
The major auction houses have known for some time that they are leaving significant money on the table with restrictive lot levels and emphasis on the high end property. The answer has and always will...
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In Memorium Winter 2016
1. NEW YORK, NY.- Thornton Dial, a self-taught painter and sculptor whose improbable life’s journey led him from a sharecropper’s shack in Alabama’s Black Belt to recognition by many of the world’s...
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Technology Winter 2016
Think you can hide in a crowd? Not So Easy Anymore With New TechnologyEver wonder how they found the Boston bombers in just a few days? This may help you to understand what the government is looking...
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ART MARKET Winter 2016
1. As the global art market pauses for breath after a year of records and prepares for 2016, ARTINFO takes a look at the past 12 months through the lens of the auction market, in particular the 20 most...
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Museum Exhibitions Winter 2016
This past week I had the opportunity to see this exhibition with a tour from curator,Dirk Van Tuerenhout and it was fascinating. I don't consider myself particularly religious and was, therefore,...
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Tax Law Winter 2016
1. WASHINGTON DC The Senate Finance Committee is scrutinizing nearly a dozen private museums opened by individual collectors, questioning whether the tax-exempt status they enjoy provides sufficient...
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