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Baroness and son battle over Spanish art treasure
Madrid :: Spain | 17 days ago
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One of the world's top private art collections could become the object of a legal dispute as a Spanish baroness is being challenged by a wayward son over his inheritance rights...The works on display at the museum alone are estimated to be worth up to...
Tags: Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza, Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, Spanish, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, art collection, Miss Spain, Spain, Madrid, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Museo del Prado, Claude Monet, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofￃﾭa, Hungarian nobility, Thyssen family
At the Frick, a Focus on the Collector as Art History
Madrid :: Spain | 21 days ago
Credibility Inge Reist’s father was not interested in the subject of money. A medievalist in the comp lit department at Columbia, he reserved a “certain disdain for business and the stock market,” according to his daughter, and preferred instead to spend his time...
Tags: Ms. Reist, art history, Frick Collection, art collection, Henry Clay Frick, Columbia, Mr. Brown, Spain, Madrid, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, Collecting, Art
Precious Toys: Dresden’s Green Vault
Dresden :: Germany | 21 days ago
Credibility Germany—So strong he could bend horseshoes with his bare hands, Saxony’s Augustus the Strong was a man of outsized appetites and overwhelming ambition. Ruler of Saxony by 1694 and enormously rich from the silver that flowed from Saxon mines, Augustus...
Tags: Dresden Green, Dresden Royal Palace, art collection, Great Moghul, New Green Vault, Historic Green Vault, Saxony, India, Moghul Aurangzeb, Germany, Dresden, Knights of the Golden Fleece, Grￃﾼnes Gewￃﾶlbe, Johann Melchior Dinglinger, Augustus II the Strong, Augustus Elector of Saxony, House of Wettin, Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Lehman Brothers' art collection goes under the hammer
Philadelphia :: NY :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility They may have slipped up on the business front by sparking the worst Wall Street crisis since the Great Depression. But top executives at the defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers had a skilled eye for art, amassing an impressive collection of contemporary...
Tags: Lehman Brothers, Lehman Bros., Philadelphia, art collection
Donald Fisher art collection a legacy
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Be the first to share your thoughts on this story. Share your thoughts on this story. - be the first to share your thoughts on this question. - Sorry, comments are closed for this story. Donald Fisher art collection a legacy Articles The San Francisco...
Tags: Donald Fisher Collection, San Francisco, Gap Inc., fisher died, founders donald, art collection, Doris Fisher, founders don, Mr. Fisher, fisher art
Inside Art: Jeff Koons Tries Hand as Guest Curator
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility For an artist who seems to have been everywhere and done everything for nearly three decades, Mr. Koons is taking a new direction. He is trying his hand as a curator, agreeing to organize an exhibition of the Greek industrialist Dakis Joannou’s contemporary-art...
Tags: Doris Fisher, art collection, fisher collection, Gap Inc., San Francisco
Court says New Mexico museum has no standing in Fisk case
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Fisk University doesn't have to give up 101 art works donated by painter Georgia O'Keeffe to a New Mexico museum in her name, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled in a decision filed Tuesday. The ruling overturned a lower court's decision that barred...
Tags: Fisk University, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Tennessee Court of Appeals, art collection, Tennessee's Court of Appeals, crystal bridges
Statuettes topple at Saint Laurent art show
Paris :: France | 9 months ago
Credibility February 22, 2009 Auctioneers selling fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent's spectacular art collection got a jolt Saturday when an 80,000-euro statuette toppled and lost an arm as the display opened to the public. The 20-centimetre (six-inch) 18th-century...
Tags: Yves Saint Laurent, Grand Palais, Paris, art collection, Mr Pierre Berge
Money-pinched Brandeis to sell art collection
Waltham :: MA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Tough economic times are taking a toll across the spectrum of business and individual activity -- and the country's institutions of higher learning are no exception. Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts, will be taking an extraordinary step...
Tags: art museums, Brandeis University, Roy Lichtenstein, art collection, rose art, Andy Warhol, Brandeis U., Jasper Johns From
UI art collection returning to Iowa
Davenport :: IA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility After more than six months in storage, the collection of the University of Iowa Museum of Art will return to Iowa. Museum of Art-organized exhibitions and traveling shows in its building in Davenport...Access to that facility for students, faculty and...
Tags: University of Iowa, Iowa River, Figge Art Museum, UI museum’, Davenport, art collection
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