The FBI also searched the Worcester home of an ex-convict who has a history of art theft.
One of the most popular museums in the world, the Louvre has a long history of collecting art from the Islamic world, from putting on the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to Islamic art in 1893 to creating a dedicated Islamic art department in 2003.
When is a perfectly authentic work of art by someone who changed art history worth a fraction of its real value?
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This former hospice for pilgrims and, until relatively recently, a working hospital, contains almost a millennium of history, religious art and ruins.
"Unfortunately, the collectors, buyers and sellers of works of art have traditionally paid little, if any, attention to the provenance of a work of art in terms of its ownership history, " Korte told CNN.
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Prior to dinner, Paul Morris, the founding director of the show, gave guests a preview of the art that will be on display and a presented a brief history of its modest beginnings at the former Gramercy Hotel to its move to the 69th Street Regiment Armory and finally to its current home at Piers 92 and 94.
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"We are losing a whole chapter of our art history, " says campaign director, Catherine Croft.
Tracking the history or provenance of a work of art is one.
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If you know a lot of facts about a certain field like taxes, accounting, business start-ups, art collections, history or any topic you can think of then you could possibly become a consultant.
"Until recently these frames were not seen as a valuable or interesting part of art history, " explains Alan Montgomery, head of the Frames Department at Bonhams, the London auction house.
Very much a work of art rather than of history, this beautifully written novel edges towards saying something profound about the relationships between art and life, men and women, the powerful and the disempowered, without ever becoming a simplistic parable.
Born in Stockholm, the son of a botanist and a mathematician, he turned his back on family tradition by studying art history at the University of Stockholm.
The Budapest-based European Roma Cultural Foundation described Stojka as an "outstanding Austrian Romani woman... and a key figure for the history, art and literature of Romani culture in Europe", reported Reuters news agency.
Martin Kemp, Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University and a leading expert on Leonardo da Vinci, gives the careful estimate that there are probably no more than 20 paintings by the master in the world, which suggests there could be five more to be discovered.
She studied Computer Science at Sussex Univeristy in England before going on to complete a course in Art History and Design at the Inchbald School of Design in London.
Each of the book's chapters is written by a locally based specialist (the authors include auctioneers, academics, consultants and dealers) who examines a country or region's art market history in terms of taste, fashion, value, art types, subjects, sales prices and records.
Museums in all 50 states, covering a wide range of topics, from art to science to history, will be participating in Museum Day Live!
"The opportunity for a museum or a private collector to buy one of the great icons of art history is unlikely to be repeated any time soon, " said Shaw.
He sees this period as a turning point in the work of each artist and in the history of art, and he chronicles every day, sometimes every hour, of their life together.
That this approach is especially hospitable to persons unfamiliar with contemporary art is a direct reflection of Gioni's own history as an outsider.
It had been a few tough days of not really appreciating the art, architecture and history enough -- no matter how many hours I had devoted to museums.
This award is given each year to individuals in 12 countries who have a long history of giving their time and their talents to supporting the arts and art projects.
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Fascinated by coffee table books on boots as art, and a student of collectible boots and boot history, his niche is to recreate or pay homage to lost classic designs of the 1930s to 1960s.
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My interviews with people such as Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Barbra Streisand, Mel Brooks, Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, James Caan, Robin Williams, Christian Slater, Lucille Ball, Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, Julia Roberts, Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, Tom Cruise, Carrie Fisher, Whoopi Goldberg, Lauren Bacall, and Bruce Willis (just to name a few) have enlightened me about the art of acting and the history of Hollywood.
At the time, he was studying history of art in Geneva whilst holding down two jobs - in a pub and a petrol station - "to support the car habit".
Some of them seem to be about business management, but one is about calculus, and there are others about art and history, and one narrow volume looks like a collection of poetry.
Upstairs, Mr Cai has built a mini rollercoaster in a cavernous gallery, on whose ceiling is painted Mr Cai's history of Belgian art images from the city's famous Ghent altarpiece and iconic works by Magritte and Broodthaers.
"American Visions, " Mr. Hughes' history of art in North America from the 16th Century, was "a love letter to America, " he said.
The 1998 traveling exhibit, "Art of the Motorcycle, " offered up a century of biking history, from a 1868 Michaux-Perreaux steam-powered machine to a Massimo Tamburini MV Agusta F4 racer.
Valentina is currently hard at work writing a history of Via Margutta, and has discovered that the first meeting of the revolutionary Italian art movement, the Futurists, took place here in 1906.
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