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Nov 20
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The Mystery Of Ancient Roman Painting
The Still Life with Peaches comes from a room in Herculaneum. It wasn't a free-standing image. Like other still lives, it was set on a wall among landscapes, narratives, decoration.
"Very little remains, and what remains is puzzling.Most of the survivors were mural paintings, preserved (ironically) by the lava of Vesuvius, while the paintings in other cities, such as Rome itself, were destroyed or faded away. Was the art of these two provincial towns inferior to the art of the capital? If we saw real Roman painting, would that make the work that's survived look very average? Or is this as good as it got?.
The Independent (UK) 11/20/09
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Oct 21
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Sculptor Turns Old Opera Costumes Into Art At Lincoln Center
E. V. Day's sculptures made from vintage costumes from the New York City Opera's warehouse, now suspended in the promenade of the David H. Koch Theater.
E.V. Day, "an artist best known for transforming clothing into sculpture material" - or, as she says, "futurist abstract paintings in three dimensions" - has been let loose in the closets of New York City Opera. The results are now suspended from the ceiling in the grand promenade of the Koch Theater.
New York Times 10/21/09
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Oct 13
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Claim: Fingerprint, Palm Print ID Portrait As A Leonardo
New scientific techniques have uncovered evidence that this picture is a previously unrecognised work by Leonardo da Vinci.
A portrait in chalk, pen and ink, which was designated "'German, early 19th century' and sold for $19,000 at Christie's New York in the late 1990s," is now said to be a Leonardo, based on multispectral images that literally show "the hand - and fingerprint - of the artist in the work."
Antiques Trade Gazette (UK) 10/12/09
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Oct 11
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Afghanistan Exhibits 2,000 Artifacts Recovered By UK From Smugglers
Buddha statues on display at Kabul museum.
It was a moment that went a long way to putting Afghanistan and its cultural heritage back on the map. ... Afghan dignitaries and western diplomats squeezed past each other to see into the display cases: bronze age digging implements, pieces of carved marble and elaborate metal goods spanning Afghanistan's rich history.
The Guardian (UK) 10/06/09
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Oct 10
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The People Have Spoken: ArtPrize Has A Winner 
"Open Water No. 24" by Ran Ortner
Ran Ortner of Brooklyn, N.Y., has won the $250,000 first prize in the inaugural edition of ArtPrize, the contemporary art competition in Grand Rapids that dispensed with a traditional jury of experts in favor of choosing the winner by public vote.
Detroit Free Press 10/09/09
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Oct 07
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In Dallas, Contemporary Forms Trapped In A Time Warp
The Wyly Theatre, wrapped in a skin of aluminum tubes, is yoga-flexible inside.
Architecture isn't the reason that Dallas' new performing arts center "feels stuck in something of a time warp." At fault is the arts district's "organizing principle -- the idea that grouping together institutions for the arts, and recruiting an all-star team of leading architects to design them, remains a viable means of coaxing underdeveloped urban neighborhoods to life."
Los Angeles Times 10/07/09
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Oct 06
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Aided By Technology, Hunting For A Hidden Leonardo
PAINTINGS Maurizio Seracini, on scaffolding, and the "Battle of Marciano" mural.
"If you believe, as Maurizio Seracini does, that Leonardo da Vinci's greatest painting is hidden inside a wall in Florence's city hall, then there are two essential techniques for finding it. As usual, Leonardo anticipated both of them."
The New York Times 10/06/09
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Oct 01
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Tate Modern Removes Nude Child Photo Of Brooke Shields
A detail from the original photograph of Brooke Shields by Gary Gross, which Richard Prince used in his artwork displayed at the Tate. Photograph: Gary Gross
"A display due to go on show to the public at Tate Modern tomorrow has been withdrawn after a warning from Scotland Yard that the naked image of actor Brooke Shields aged 10 and heavily made up could break obscenity laws."
The Guardian (UK) 09/30/09
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Sep 18
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alatrava's 'Glorious' New Station in Belgium: 'The Future Of Train Travel'
The future of train travel ... Belgium's renovated railway station, Liége-Guillemins.
"The new station at Liège-Guillemins is a revelation, ... easily one of the world's finest. Its ethereal, transparent, filigree architecture suggests openness, a dissolving of boundaries, infinite horizons, speed, grace and ease: everything, in other words, that train travel should be."
The Guardian (UK) 09/16/09
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Sep 13
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Eleven Warhol Canvases Stolen From L.A. Home
A $1-million reward has been offered for information in the theft of Andy Warhol's "The Athletes."
On Sept. 3, a housekeeper for noted art collector Richard L. Weisman walked into the dining room of Weisman's residence and saw that 11 large portraits" - Andy Warhol's series The Athletes - "that had been on the walls the day before were gone.
Los Angeles Times 09/12/09
