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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Drawings for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum expansion. Copyright Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

Financial fortunes rise for Boston's Gardner Museum
Boston Business Journal - February 22nd, 2010 22:35

Rich in works by Old Masters and American impressionists, the palazzo-like Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum says its investment portfolio closed out the year valued at $161.6 million — some 53 percent higher than at the end of June, the close of its last fiscal year. A rise in the stock market and some $25 million in grants and gifts gave the balance sheet a boost in time for building a planned $118 million expansion designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

The Henry Moore retrospective at Tate Britain is on view through August 8, 2010.

London's Tate Britain shows a darker, deeper side of Henry Moore

Sculptor Henry Moore is portrayed as a radical who explored a dark world of sex, war and death in a show that challenges his modern image as the creator of gentle figures that adorn windswept plazas ...

Claude Monet, Título: Puesta de sol en Étretat, 1883. Musée des beaux-arts, Nancy Foto: C. Philippot

Was Monet the father of Abstract Expressionism?

With more than 100 works, Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum will attempt to show that French Impressionist Claude Monet influenced a stream of young artists of the post-WWII era, such as ...

Irving Penn's portrait of Marlene Dietrich, 1948.

The modernist photographs of Irving Penn

In his famously bare and basic studio, Irving Penn captured many 20th-century icons with a masterful mixture of austerity and playfulness. Alfred Hitchcock, for instance, was portrayed in profile ...

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	Heading Bonhams Marine Sale are Inaugural America's Cup Scenes, Where Queen Victoria was one Amused Spectator Release Date: 18 February 2010 Three 20th century paintings of the first America's Cup sailing regatta of 1851, the oldest continuous sporting trophy in history, are highlights at The Marine Sale at Bonhams on 24th March 2010. The three pictures offered for sale depict – America and her rivals on the start line, oil ... Read more

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