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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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Asher DurandSublime Scenes: Awe-inspiring 19th century New York landscapes on view
NY Times - September 15th, 2009 01:07
Every now and then, an exhibition comes along that is so perfectly lovely that you want to shout its merits from the closest rooftop, or in this case mountain. Peaks and valleys are among the predominant subjects of the 45 paintings exhibited in “The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th Century American Landscape Paintings from the New-York Historical Society” at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, New York.

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ImagePenchant for Porcelain: Collectors keep clamoring for ceramics
New York Times Art - September 12th, 2009 04:55
A Bonhams sale of English pottery and porcelain demonstrated last week that ceramics is one of the few areas of the art market still immune from financial speculation.

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Dale ChihulyRecession-busting Blockbusters: Ohio museums serve up crowd-pleasing shows, even on small budgets
Cleveland Plain Dealer - September 14th, 2009 22:46
Paul Gauguin, Chuck Close, and Dale Chihuly are just a few exhibition headliners this fall in Ohio where blockbusters are keeping the visual arts scene lively. Of note, Cincinnati Art Museum is showing "Roaring Tigers, Leaping Carp: Decoding the Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting" with about 100 paintings from American collections, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and the Palace Museum in Beijing.

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Korean art at LACMAOld Shards to New Video: LACMA exhibits 1,000 years of Korean history
LA Times Arts - September 13th, 2009 07:00
In May 1965, two months after the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened its doors, Yook Young-soo, the wife of Park Chung-hee, president of the Republic of Korea, paid a visit. She was so disappointed with the paltry display of Korean art that she gave the fledgling institution 23 ceramic works. The collection now spans 500 paintings, sculptures, ceramics and textiles, and an 850-piece trove of historic pottery shards. On view now are cutting-edge contemporary artists...  

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Chelsea Antiques FairChelsea Antiques Fair
September 23-27, 2009

London, United Kingdom
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EXOTIC HOME OF WATCH BARON TO BE RECREATED AT BONHAMS SALE Spectacular Furnishings of Time Lord's Chelsea Home for Sale at Bonhams
Release Date: 15 September 2009
THE extraordinary furniture and fittings of the home of `Time Lord’, Severin Wunderman, who built up the Gucci watch franchise and owned the Swiss watch brand Corum, will go on sale at Bonhams on September 30th. The magnificent eight-bedroom Chelsea home was his UK base until his untimely ...

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