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Jerry Hall to Auction a Pregnant Nude Portrait and Other Art at Sotheby's
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ARTINFO - As if the action-packed fall art season wasn't sexy enough already, Jerry Hall ? world-famous supermodel, actress, and the alleged subject matter of Mick JaggerÂ’s hit love song, ?Miss You?? will be selling her collection of contemporary art at Sotheby?s next month. The 14 artworks, which attest to Hall?s glamorous life amidst the avant-garde 1970s and 80s in New York, will be auctioned to coincide with London?s Frieze Art Fair.
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Egypt Cracks Down on Arts Officials After Van Gogh Theft
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ARTINFO - Egyptian authorities have been unable to recover the $50 million van Gogh that was stolen in broad daylight from Cairo's Mahmoud Khalil Museum last month, but they have certainly wasted no time in finding scapegoats for the embarrassing theft. Eleven people in the country's arts establishment, including a senior culture minister and the head of the museum, are now set to be tried in court on charges of negligence in protecting the painting.
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Sistine Chapel Threatened by Too Much Love
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ARTINFO - It appears that the millions of sweat-stained tourists who invade Rome's landmarks every year are a nuisance to more than just the locals ? they're even starting to disturb God. At least, that is, the depictions of God on the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, which showed signs of damage during a routine cleaning this summer. According to Vatican Museums director Antonio Paolucci, the harm has been caused by the 4.5 million people who visit the site each year.
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An Imperial Stamp, Protected by a Dragon, Sells for $1.3 Million at a Hong Kong Auction
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ARTINFO - Yesterday, ARTINFO ventured into the world of numismatics, discovering a strange and exciting land of niche collectibles. But today we are being even bolder, delving into what some might argue is an even narrower, more specific pursuit: timbrophily! Stamp collectors the world over received a jolt of excitement on Saturday when Hong Kong postage auction house Phila China brought the hammer down on a toasty timbrophilic lot at $1.3 million, a new record in the already-sizzling Chinese stamp market.
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Jerry Hall's art collection on auction block
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 AP - Model Jerry Hall plans to auction some of her art collection next month, including a famous portrait by Lucian Freud that shows her nude when she was eight months pregnant, Sotheby's said Monday.
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Isaac Julien's art seeks to 'allegorise' news tragedy
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 AFP - British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien says his art film "Better Life" offers an allegory of the 2004 tragedy in which 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned at Morecambe Bay, northern England.
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Is Damien Hirst a Serial Plagiarist?
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ARTINFO - Damien Hirst has been accused of a lot of things in his day ? from peeing in the sinks of posh Soho clubs in his early years to, of late, making "ugly, ugly, ugly" paintings ? and one of the more persistent allegations has been that the bad-boy YBA is a little too quick to steal other artists' ideas. Now this complaint has been vociferously resurrected by Charles Thomson, co-founder of the Stuckist movement, who is accusing Hirst of plagiarizing at least 15 of his most famous works, including his medicine cabinets, spin paintings, diamond-encrusted skull, and pickled shark.
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In Financial Jeopardy, the Seattle Art Museum Seeks a $10 Million Loan
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ARTINFO - Though corporate America appears to have weathered the worst of the housing-market collapse, the nonprofit sector is continuing to suffer from the weak economy. The latest organization to face considerable danger is the Seattle Art Museum, which has filed a motion in county court asking for approval of a plan to borrow $10 million from its $96 million endowment in order to avoid having to default on a loan that financed its 2007 downtown expansion.
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ADVISORY-Lloyd Webber art exhibition story withdrawn
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Reuters - Please be advised that Friday's London story saying composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's private art collection is to go on show this month is wrong. The exhibition has already taken place. The following story has been withdrawn.
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A Con Artist, a Secret Affair, and Drunken Debauchery Enliven New York's Corot Mystery
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ARTINFO - In a turn to a story that seems to have been tailor-made to relieve the late summer news doldrums, the courier who claimed to have lost a $1.35 million Corot painting while on a drunken bender at a New York hotel now appears to have been in the employ of a serial scam artist. The improbable imbroglio received its latest twist when it was revealed that Tom Doyle, the co-owner of the missing artwork, is really Thomas Doyle, a convicted crook who just got out of prison for, you guessed it, art theft, according to the New York Times.
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