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The Museo del Prado is presenting to the public for the first time The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the leading figure within 16th-century Flemish painting.
14 December '11
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A painting believed to be by the street artist Banksy has appeared in Liverpool city centre.
14 December '11
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The extraordinary beauty, rarity and provenance of the pearl known as “La Peregrina” inspired a fierce bidding battle at Christie’s New York at the opening auction of The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor.
14 December '11
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The most expensive Chinese work of art at auction is still not paid for, more than a year after it was bid to 51.6 million pounds ($83 million).
13 December '11
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Monet's Waterloo Bridge, created during one of his stays at The Savoy, is returning to the London hotel over 100 years after it was drawn.
13 December '11
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Major auction houses and galleries have been caught up in Beltracchi’s fake art scam
12 December '11
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Celebrated German artist reflects on his work before opening of his biggest UK show, at White Cube gallery in London.
12 December '11
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In an effort to grow its business, a Melbourne hotel is displaying an original work by street artist Banksy - and inviting people to walk off with it. For the next month, starting on December 15, any guest who successfully manages to steal “No Ball Games” - a painting valued at up to $15,000 - will be allowed to keep it.
12 December '11
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A rediscovered painting by Velazquez sold for 3 million pounds ($4.7 million) at an auction in London today as wealthy international collectors battled for trophy Old Master paintings.
11 December '11
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British artist Damien Hirst will fill 11 Gagosian galleries worldwide with shows of his 'Spot' paintings, many for sale. But how much is too much?
11 December '11
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An outstanding, unfinished Édouard Manet portrait of a woman sitting sedately on a balcony has had a temporary export bar placed on it by the government in the hope that someone will raise £28m to keep the painting in the UK.
09 December '11
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Participatory art, as it turns out, is not all fun and games. The New Museum, whose exhibition of the work of the Belgian-born artist Carsten Höller has been packing in crowds since it opened last month, has raised its general admission price to $16, from $12.
09 December '11
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Booming art prices have produced plenty of "treasures in the attic" of late, and this week could see another when a painting first valued at 300 pounds ($470) is set to fetch up to three million after Bonhams discovered it was by Velazquez.
07 December '11
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A painting attributed to one of Rembrandt's students has now been identified as one done by the master's hand. An advanced x-ray technology has revealed outlines of a self-portrait by a young Rembrandt underneath an oil painting of an old bearded man.
07 December '11
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Art experts have signed a petition to stop drilling into a fresco in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio which may be hiding a Leonardo Da Vinci work.
07 December '11
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Although Leonardo da Vinci died almost half a millennium ago, he has had a great year. The success of his show at the National Gallery in London has been sensational.
07 December '11
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Being told that a work of art is fake alters your response to it, researchers at Oxford University have found.
07 December '11
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Traders snared in a conmen's scam are pursued with demands to pay huge sums for an advertising listing.
05 December '11
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Art Miami, Miami’s longest running contemporary art fair and anchor fair to the City of Miami, announced at the close of the fair’s fourth day (Saturday) that collective sales exceeded the 2010 figures by more than double.
05 December '11
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The 3rd edition of Miami International Art Fair (MIA), one of America's most exciting mid-winter contemporary art fairs, will return January 12-16, 2012 with a dynamic ensemble of 28 international galleries representing artist from Europe, Latin America, United States and Asia.
05 December '11
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Even a show-off like me finds this new, super-rich art-buying crowd vulgar and depressingly shallow.
05 December '11
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Days after Manhattan’s 165-year-old Knoedler & Co. art gallery unexpectedly closed, a London hedge- fund executive sued it and its former director, Ann Freedman, accusing them of selling a forged Jackson Pollock painting.
05 December '11
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Sotheby's London Old Master and British Paintings Evening and Day Sales on 7th and 8th December 2011 will offer a selection of important works of exceptional quality and rarity, many of which have remained in private collections for decades, including the masterpiece by Jan Steen Card Players in an Interior (est. £4.5-6 million).
05 December '11
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By the end of Art Basel Miami Beach’s VIP preview this week, art dealer Kavi Gupta sold 35 sculptures by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates.
04 December '11
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The Winter Antiques Show celebrates its 58th year as America's most prestigious antiques show, providing museums, collectors, dealers, design professionals and first-time buyers with opportunities to see and purchase exceptional pieces showcased by 75 exhibitors.
04 December '11
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This fair is one of three to be studied in a Swiss sociology project.
01 December '11
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Last night, Art Miami, the city’s longest running contemporary art fair and anchor fair, hosted an unprecedented Opening Night VIP Preview, which unveiled a compelling array of works from internationally renowned modern and contemporary artists from the 20th and 21st centuries.
01 December '11
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Portraits by Velazquez and Goya are the main attractions in a 55.6-million-pound ($86.5 million) series of Old Master auctions in London next month that have struggled to lure big-ticket works by major artists.
30 November '11
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In keeping with its ongoing expansion of its online and mobile access strategy, Christie’s International launches its newly upgraded mobile applications, enhancing the Christie’s digital experience for a global audience of mobile device users.
30 November '11
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Brazil has been a powerhouse in the art world for more than a decade, and now its booming economy is putting its artists and collectors on the global map.
30 November '11
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