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Metropolitan Museum Of Art Gets Gift Of $1 Billion In Cubist Art
Cosmetics tycoon Leonard Lauder has given the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York his collection of cubist art, which is valued at $1 billion. (This is Picasso's "Woman in an Armchair.") It will reportedly go on exhibit in Fall 2014. Art road trip!...
Tags: The New York Times, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Gift valued at $1 billion transforms Met's modern art collection
Museum leaders are generally reluctant to see themselves engaged in competition, but the Museum of Modern Art in New York just lost a big one — and will lose its reputation as the city's only great destination for the Cubism of Picasso and Braque as...
Tags: The New York Times, Arts and Culture, Museum of Modern Art, Arts, Museums
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Tate removes Ovenden prints after conviction on child sex offenses
Here’s the latest about British artist Graham Ovenden, who was convicted earlier this week for multiple child sex offenses: the Tate in London has removed more than 30 of his prints from its online collection. The Tate also won’t be...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Abusive Behavior, Arts, Music, Entertainment
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Early Southern painting explored in landmark Colonial Williamsburg exhibit
For as long as art historians have been writing about painting in the early South, it's been common to think of the region's artists as relatively independent and even isolated figures. Many show up in the records as episodic visitors from Europe or...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Colonial Williamsburg, Arts, Yorktown (York, Virginia), Museums
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. HOW CYPRUS WILL PAY FOR ITS BAILOUT EU leaders signed off on a deal taxing bank deposits of more than 100,000 euros. The rest of the 5.8...Tags: Powerball Lottery, Arts and Culture, Cypriot Banking Crisis (2013), Free Syrian Army, Arts
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"The Civil War and American Art" is one of the first in a wave of regional creative projects about the conflict
The lone Union sentry stands atop Federal Hill, outlined against an ominous orange/red sky. In the distance, the tops of the Washington Monument and several spires rise above the city, as straight and determined as the rifle held in the soldier's left...Tags: Harvard University, Arts, Civil Rights, Wars and Interventions, Human Interest
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Metropolitan Museum of Art to stay open 7 days a week
Patrons will have another day to browse the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of nearly 2 million works. The New York museum announced on Thursday that it will be open to the public seven days a week -- nearly 60 hours in total -- starting...
Tags: Arts and Culture, The Getty, Arts, Museums, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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'Eggs-hibition' At Bruce Museum
The Hartford CourantThe folks at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich have the answer to the age-old question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It was definitely the egg. "Scientists believe the first organism that created eggs was a species of branching coral, about 600...Tags: Dr. Seuss, Arts, Literature, IKEA, Artists
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Eli Broad remains a player in LACMA's proposed takeover of MOCA
Michael Govan came to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art seven years ago with a mission to make it one of the most prestigious institutions in the country, one worth mentioning alongside New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern...
Tags: Arts, World War II (1939-1945), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Washington, DC, Artists
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Artist, former trustee react to possible LACMA/MOCA merger
MOCA has been known as "the artist's museum" since its founding in 1979 because of hands-on support from its creative community. So what do L.A. artists think about the news of a possible acquisition by LACMA, which would create a combined organization...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Museums, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Artists
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Sicilian art coming to the Getty
SICILY, Italy — Two years ago, the J. Paul Getty Museum ended a lengthy dispute with Italian cultural authorities by returning a towering limestone and marble statue of a Greek goddess to Sicily. The sculpture is now the pride of the relatively...
Tags: Sculpture, The Getty, Arts, Artists, 2012 Summer Olympics
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Dinosaur-size debt
For many people the defining moment in the Field Museum's recent history was the bid at a 1997 auction that made Chicago home to the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Sue. But that choice could have far less impact on the Field's future than another...
Tags: Harvard University, Arts, Travel, Media Industry, Trips and Vacations
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