He also paid tribute to the head of art at Ystalyfera, Euros Rowlands, saying he "helped me to have my ideas".
"It's a show about photography's unique relationship to the world, to real events and real experience, " says Kate Bush, Head of Art Galleries at the Barbican.
Robert Read, global head of fine art at specialist insurers Hiscox Ltd.
"The effect would be fairly catastrophic, " says James Watt, head of Asian Art at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"He always described himself as a simple man - that's become almost legend, " said Mr Simpson, the Lowry's head of visual art.
They were joined by David Harding, former head of Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Geoff Ellis, director of DF Concerts and Cllr Matheson.
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"If you want to talk about the market being happy, healthy and well, here it is, " said Sotheby's auctioneer Tobias Meyer, worldwide head of contemporary art.
Davies, who is head of fine art at Swansea Metropolitan University, was named by the arts council after it whittled down a shortlist of just over 30 possible contributors.
The robbery was unusual for its boldness and for the number of people involved, said Robert Read, global head of fine art at specialist insurers Hiscox Ltd. in London.
"Hopper is still the better known of the two in this country and internationally, and his work generally sells for higher prices" than that of Bellows, says Elizabeth Goldberg, head of American art at Sotheby's New York.
Besides galleries in the U.S., those in Switzerland, the only non-EU European country with a vibrant art market, also stand to benefit, says Anthony Browne, head of the British Art Market Federation, a coalition of dealers and auction houses.
"It's only a matter of time, " observes Yamini Mehta, head of the Indian art department at Christie's auction house, pointing to the inclusion of London-born Bharti Kher, 38, in the Basel, Switzerland art fair this coming spring.
Shaw, head of Impressionist and Modern Art at the auction house, said the picture's status as a high-profile target for thieves had only boosted its popularity.
The judging panel comprises of David Mackay, MBM Architects Barcelona and Professor Andy McMillan, former head of Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art.
The judging panel comprised of David Mackay, MBM Architects Barcelona and Professor Andy McMillan, former head of Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art.
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For the past 10 years, Moussavi, a painter, has been head of the state-owned Art Center.
"The painting is a celebration of Russian character, " says Sarah Mansfield, head of Christie's Russian art department.
Helping to seal the deal was Jean-Jacques Aillagon, onetime cultural affairs minister under Chirac and head of Paris' signature modern art venue, the Centre Pompidou.
As the founder and longtime head of the Museum of Modern Art's pioneering Department of Architecture and Design, Johnson had introduced Modernism to America as the International Style in the now landmark 1932 exhibition done in collaboration with the historian Henry Russell Hitchcock.
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"This is a game changer for Toyota, " said Art Spinella, head of CNW Market Research.
To take home your own piece of Art Deco, head to Nice's antique district at the port.
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Mark Gill used to be head of Warner Independent, where he oversaw risky art films like George Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck and Everything is Illuminated.
Guest-curated by Ellen Taubman, the former head of Sotheby's American Indian and tribal art department, "Changing Hands" departs from the usual museum surveys of Indian art by focusing solely on work that is innovatively contemporary.
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Soon after, at the 2001 Milan Furniture Fair, the couple met Stefano Grandi, head of an Italian company that makes motors and an art patron.
Along with a fine mosaic head of Medusa, it serves to prove that this art form was as highly developed at Alexandria as anywhere else in the Mediterranean.
"He loves the artists as much as he loves their works of art, " says Jean-Jacques Aillagon, the first director of Palazzo Grassi and former head of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Versailles.
In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.
The pairing delivers an "irresistible luster to an unknown artist, " says Alma Ruiz, head of the Latin department at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca).
"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.
In wistful moments, Wilner laments that the market for collecting period frames purely as art objects in and of themselves has never built up the head of steam he predicted.
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