It is commonplace now for a work of art to be worth tens of millions of dollars, and that makes them a target for art thieves.
The drawings of an artist who never existed sold for a record price for art by a fictional character.
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He also developed a taste for art, and a fine collection, especially of Impressionists.
Sterling and Francine Clark turned down an offer from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1946 when they were looking for a home for their art collection, setting their sights instead on Williamstown.
In 1993 paintings by a struggling, little-known 22-year-old, Jenny Saville, caught Saatchi's eye, and he set her up in a studio, paying her to work for a year making art for his gallery.
On the one hand, she was trying to sketch out a canon for a young art form.
If these two are an indication that South Africans can rediscover their faith and commitment to politics, then it will be not just a triumph for the country but a victory for the art of politics.
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Forster loved Richard Wagner and felt an affinity with Marcel Proust, a writer for whom musical phrasing was a paradigm both for art and for life.
The sale to an anonymous buyer is a landmark moment for the London art market and establishes a record price for any Post-War work of art sold at auction in Europe.
There are 12 guest rooms for artists and scholars, with a dormitory for Shanghai art students under way, and even a working organic farm.
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Derry's walls will also become a canvas for art group Lumiere whowill transform the city with special light show.
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John's Wood, which quickly became a destination for art lovers.
The night was a chance for art patrons, Vuitton clients and friends of the Toledos (Isabel Toledo is an internationally known fashion designer) to see original works by the Havana-born, Jersey-raised artist, all under the auspicious of Louis Vuitton.
And Robin Tomos, from the National Eisteddfod where the painter was both exhibitor and adjudicator, said Sir Kyffin had "strongly believed in its significance as a stage for art and "he supported the cause loyally, though exhibitions at the festival often raised his ire over the decades.
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Along with the collection, the Met announced the creation of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art to serve as a mecca for scholars and curators studying Cubism.
Also next week, a show by the young art star Jacob Kassay opens at the Power Station, a not-for-profit Dallas art venue in a 1920s industrial space.
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Designed by star architect Norman Foster and located on the northern shore of Victoria Harbor near the International Commerce Centre, it will include major performance venues, a flagship museum for contemporary visual art, a sizable park, rehearsal and studio areas, as well as dedicated spaces for recitals and shows when finally complete.
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Furthermore, as the show's curator, Jessica Morgan, points out, her art didn't fit into the Lebanese cultural establishment's desire for a modern art that referenced Lebanese tradition with subjects such as landscapes that could clearly be rooted in a particular place or a moment.
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Should this idea catch on, it could be a stress-free, low-cost introduction into the art world for a younger generation who is interested in art, but might not yet have the financial means to do so normally.
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Before dreaming up a plan for a museum of modern art, he started out as a film maker.
The current ambassador, Robert Tuttle, and his wife, Maria, a well-to-do couple from Los Angeles with a taste for contemporary American art, have taken a special interest in the house.
As a business owner, art collector and someone who has a passion for bedazzling, unique, art-centric interiors, I was utterly disappointed when I started buying art 11 years ago.
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In the 1980s, for instance, there was a great trend for roundabout art.
The genesis of the gallery dates back about a dozen years, when the museum was embarking on its expansion and Thomas Jaffe, Yale '71, was looking for a home for his tribal-art collection.
They said an individual project could be classified as an entire season for a theatre company, or a full exhibition for an art gallery.
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Alexopoulos created a multi-channel digital animation exhibit for the Torrence Art Museum and a site-specific commission for the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas.
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East London, where the city's Olympic Games are based, is a hub for street art.
Essentially, he insinuates a plural number of art works for a single piece of text.
At festival time, Edinburgh would be worth a visit for the art exhibitions alone.
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