| Rosenthal
revealed: a nude portrait of the Royal Academy's exhibitions secretary
goes on show
Date
posted: 23/05/07
LONDON. Royal Academy (RA) exhibitions secretary Norman Rosenthal’s
secret past as a model is revealed in a painting which was unveiled
on Friday. Beachy Head, Break of Day, by Jeffery Camp, shows Mr
Rosenthal as an athletic, nude forty-year-old, floating above the
cliffs. “It’s a picture which is full of the delights
of eroticism,” Camp told The Art Newspaper...
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The
art world backers of Barack Obama
Date
23/05/07
NEW YORK. Figures released last month by the Federal Election Commission
show that Senator Barack Obama raised more money ($24.8m) than Senator
Hillary Clinton ($19.1m) during the first quarter of the Democratic
primary campaign... FULL
STORY ...
Experts
discuss how market appreciation
is affecting art appreciation
Date
posted: 23/05/07
On a recent trip to the Whitney Museum of American Art’s “Picasso
and American Art” exhibition, with two collectors in tow,
PaceWildenstein president Marc Glimcher stood listening as the pair
assessed the works: “‘This is great, this is terrible,
this is worth $8 million, this is worth $15 million, that’s
an A, that’s a B plus,’” he recounts... FULL
STORY ...
Andy
Warhol's Campbell Soup Sells For $11.7 Million
Date
posted: 2006
The highlight of the evening was Andy Warhol’s Small Torn
Campbell Soup Can (Pepper Pot), 1962, from the Collection of Irving
Blum, which realized $11,776,000 and set a world auction record
for a painting of the Campbell Soup Can series... FULL
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Legal Headaches For DaVinci?
Date
posted: 2006
A Roman Catholic cardinal who was on the shortlist to become pope
last year is hinting at potential legal action that could be taken
by the church against DaVinci Code author Dan Brown and the producers
of the movie version of the controversial book... FULL
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Guggenheim
Said to Consider New Branches
Date
posted: 2006
Thomas Krens, director of the New York based Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation, recently held discussions about the possibility of opening
Guggenheim museums in Abu Dhabi and Moscow... FULL
STORY ...
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