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The layout for Michelangelo’s Pieta` Rondanini at Milan’s Castello Sforzesco is currently the focus of controversy in Italy. The project, by Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, has cost $ 71,450 (€ 77,400) with plans to divide the Scarlioni Room in two: the first part will be the display of historical information ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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| Michelangelo Buorarroti, Pieta' Rondanini |
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Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, the 7th Istanbul Biennial began on the 21st of September and runs until the 17th of November, 2001. This year’s event features 63 artists including work by Carsten Nicolai, Alberto Garutti, James Turrell, Rikrit Tiravanija, Chris Cunningham, Tomma Abts, Anya Gallacio and Jane and Louise Wilson ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Art fair goes ahead against backdrop of Middle East crisis |
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A value of $ 120 million (€ 129.8 million) has been quoted as the insurance cover for 100 works lent by Italy for an exhibition running at the Tokyo Contemporary Art Museum. Following the terrorist tragedy in the US, the paintings to be shown in the exhibition of Italian art of the 20th century include ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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Study of a Mourning Woman, a recently discovered drawing, dating from1494 to 1504 and attributed to Michelangelo, is expected to change hands soon. UK art gallery Colnaghi, who bought the work on the 11th of July at Sotheby’s, London for $ 8.4 million (€ 9.03 million) have announced that it could be resold ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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| Michelangelo Buonarroti, Study of a Mourning Woman |
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The Italian government has said that state funds amounting to $ 476.2 million (€ 516.4 million) will be made available in case the country comes under future terrorist attacks. Amongst the targets considered most at risk are the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Milan Cathedral, the Colosseum, and the cities of Rome ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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The Annenberg Foundation has announced $ 45 million (€ 49 million) in grants in the last week to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Walter H. Annenberg, the former United States ambassador to Britain, and his wife, Leonore, a former White House chief of protocol, have been ...
(James Goulder)
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The 69th Regiment Armory at Gramercy Park, New York, a popular antiques venue, has now been used as a shelter for people displaced by the disaster in the city. Stella Show Management organisers of the show, have stated that all their fairs will go ahead as planned. Meanwhile the 7th Regiment Armory on Park Avenue, New York ...
(Andrew Moore)
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Sotheby’s held the first sale at its new Olympia premises in south west London on the 18th of September with a 600-lot sale. Despite a few strong prices, such as $ 51,630 (€ 55,720) for Abraham Solomon’s painting - The Lost Found - the majority of sold works made small money. An early ...
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| Sotheby's holds its inaugural sale at Olympia |
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Channel PBS is to begin broadcasting throughout America, Art 21, a 2-hour programme of contemporary artists’ projects. Following on from the success of the British production This is Modern Art, Susan Sollins, a founder and former executive director of Independent Curators International, paired up ...
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Due to the tragic circumstances last week in New York, Thomas Blackman Associates, the principal art fair sponsors of the San Francisco International Art Exposition, have decided that it is necessary to postpone the fair, previously scheduled from the 21st to the 24th of September. In a press conference ...
(James Goulder)
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