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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has joined the Detroit Institute of Arts in opposing any plan for the Michigan city to sell billions of dollars of museum masterpieces to plug a deficit.
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Stored inside a laptop at FBI headquarters are photos of thousands of paintings, sculptures and artifacts, works by Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne -- international treasures worth millions of dollars each. All are missing.
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Paul Cezanne’s “Les Pommes” sold for $41.6 million at Sotheby’s in New York last night, the top price in a $230 million Impressionist and modern art sale.
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Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russia’s 14th-richest person, and his wife, Elena Rybolovleva, have been brawling for almost five years in at least seven countries over his $9.5 billion fortune.
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On February 17, 1901, a young Spanish poet and close friend of Pablo Picasso’s named Carles Casagemas invited several people to a Paris restaurant. After dinner he pulled out a gun, fired at one of his guests -- a model with whom he was in love -- then, having missed her, shot himself.
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The authors of a new biography of Vincent van Gogh have a radical theory.
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Vincent van Gogh once said that he could sit in front of Rembrandt’s “Jewish Bride” in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum for a fortnight with just a crust of bread to eat.
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Go visit Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” (1895) and Vincent van Gogh’s “Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier)” (1888) and see the difference between art as fast food and art as an infinitely rewarding feast.
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A Greek heiress is fighting a legal battle in Switzerland to find out what has become of a collection of Picasso, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne and Degas art that she says should be part of her inheritance.
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Marc Restellini, founder and director of the Pinacotheque de Paris, is notorious for his unorthodox views and controversial shows.
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