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After $3.5 Million Renovation, JMW Turner's Picturesque Cottage Opens to Visitors

Guardian / August 16th, 2017

In 1813 England’s great landscape painter JMW Turner built a small villa, Sandycombe Lodge, on a large plot near the Thames at Twickenham. Here, the painter became an architect, guided by the hand of his friend John Soane, notes the ...

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The Quintessential Louis Comfort Tiffany

/ October 3, 2017

This program will provide an intensive investigation into the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, including discussions with three leading Tiffany experts. Participants will study some of Tiffany’s finest examples, including his...

With its luminous palette and feathery brushstrokes, "Le Gué aux Cinq Vaches" is exemplary of Corot's mature style. Oil on canvas. Signed "Corot", circa 1865Blogs

The Landscapes of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Beauty, Rarity, History...The M.S. Rau Antiques Blog / June 13th, 2017 10:56

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot is regarded by many as the most important landscape artist of the 19th century. Though he identified primarily with the Barbizon artists that painted in the Forest of Fontainebleau, Corot proved to be a...

Staff members evaluate the recovered de Kooning.

Stolen De Kooning Painting Returned to Museum After 3 Decades

Tucson / August 15th, 2017

A Willem de Kooning painting that had been stolen more than 31 years ago from the University of Arizona Museum of Art has been found and returned. A Silver Spring, New Mexico, antiques and furniture dealer discovered the work in an ...

Leonardo DiCaprio to Play Da Vinci in Film Adaptation of Walter Isaacson Book

Deadline / August 14th, 2017

Paramount won a seven-figure bidding battle against Universal for the film rights to the latest Walter Isaacson book Leonardo da Vinci, reported Deadline. The Hollywood biopic will star none other than Leonardo DiCaprio. Legend has it ...

Walker Evans, Truck and Sign, 1928–30; private collection, San Francisco; © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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ARTFIXdaily will be closed from August 7 to 11. E-newsletter service will resume on August 14. Browse the ArtWire for latest news posted by our ArtGuild members. The image shown here is from the traveling exhibition on the great 20th ...

One of the objects seized during Sunday's arrest of antiquities dealers in Jerusalem.

Antiquities Dealers Arrested in Hobby Lobby Probe

PBS / August 1st, 2017

On Sunday, Israeli authorities arrested 5 Palestinian antiquities dealers in Jerusalem. Officials contend that the dealers are connected to the illegal sales of antiquities to Hobby Lobby, the U.S. arts and crafts supply chain that has ...

Marble Head of a Bull, ca. 500–460 B.C. Greek. H. 13 in. (33 cm). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Met Museum Hands Over Two Ancient Objects to Authorities

AD / August 3rd, 2017

Last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art gave up a large painted terracotta vase that had been illegally excavated from an ancient burial ground in Italy to the district attorney. The ancient Greek vessel, a krater, shows Dionysus, god ...

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One of the objects seized during Sunday's arrest of antiquities dealers in Jerusalem.
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Walker Evans, Truck and Sign, 1928–30; private collection, San Francisco; © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Sandycombe Lodge, 1814, W. B. Cooke after William Havell - Tate Britain.
After $3.5 Million Renovation, JMW Turner's Picturesque Cottage Opens to Visitors

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Marble Head of a Bull, ca. 500–460 B.C. Greek. H. 13 in. (33 cm). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Met Museum Hands Over Two Ancient Objects to Authorities

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William Langenheim (American, born Germany, Schöningen 1807-1874) and Frederick Langenheim (American, born Germany, Schöningen 1809-1879), Eclipse of the Sun, 1854, Daguerreotype. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005.
A Peek at Rare 1854 Solar Eclipse Images, and a Full Look at the Friedman Collection of Photography
 

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William Langenheim (American, born Germany, Schöningen 1807-1874) and Frederick Langenheim (American, born Germany, Schöningen 1809-1879), Eclipse of the Sun, 1854, Daguerreotype. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005.

A Peek at Rare 1854 Solar Eclipse Images, and a Full Look at the Friedman Collection of Photography

Walker Evans, Truck and Sign, 1928–30; private collection, San Francisco; © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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