Museum acquires 55 van Gogh letters
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The Van Gogh Museum said it bought 55 letters written by Vincent van Gogh that give important information about the 19th century painter&#039;s world view and development of his artistic thought.
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A collection of work by artist L S Lowry, valued at half a million pounds, is to go on sale in Birmingham.
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The Dallas Museum of Art announced a series of cash gifts and art bequests that will enrich the museum's holdings by more than 800 Modern and contemporary works.
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A collection of letters written by popes and kings some 700 years ago that was found among the possessions of a deceased U.S. World War II veteran was turned over Monday to Polish national archives officials.
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Paintings stolen in one of the world's largest art robberies discovered in a Zurich hospital car park
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A recently acquired collection at the Morris Museum in New Jersey includes a vast assortment of wind-ups and automatons.
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The newly donated collection of Abstract Expressionist paintings at the Metropolitan Museum is largely a delight from beginning to end.
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A Valentineâs Day charity auction at Sothebyâs in New York raised more than $42.5 million to benefit H.I.V./AIDS relief programs in Africa, far above the presale estimate of about $29 million, The Associated Press reported. Organized by Sothebyâs, Bono, Damien Hirst (whose âWhere Thereâs a Will Thereâs a Way,â above, was among the works sold) and the Gagosian Gallery, the event set sale records for 17 artists, including Howard Hodgkin, Marc Quinn and Keith Tyson, and included pieces by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will go the United Nations Foundation and will support programs run by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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Personal letters from people such as Napoleon and John Donne are being sold at auction.
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Se og Hoer, a Norwegian magazine, has offered a 100,000 crone (12,100 Euro) reward for the safe return of Edvard Munch&#39;s (1863-1944) &quot;Scream&quot; and &quot;Madonna,&quot; two paintings that were stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo.
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It's an art collection that could hold  as many as 80 works by Vincent van Gogh and nearly half-a-dozen  by Paul Cezanne, that is if the champions of a dead Dutch  furniture dealer are to be believed.
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A Holocaust-era diary and love letters written by a Jewish teen for her Dutch boyfriend while she was imprisoned in an internment camp in 1943 has been donated to a Dutch archives.
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A gang of arts thieves yesterday launched a dawn raid on one of South America's most famous art galleries, making off with two paintings together worth over Â£50m
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More than 150 items from Damien Hirst popular restaurant, including-styled bar stools, towering medical cabinets, DNA-themed sculptures and molecule-inspired ashtrays, have been successfully sold to collectors of modern art.
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A collection of books, photos and letters relating to Oscar Wilde are being sold at auction in London.
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Anne Frank's cousin on Monday donated thousands of letters, photographs and documents that archivists say will reveal details about the background of the teenage diarist who became a symbol of the Holocaust.
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State police in Brazil have recovered two paintings, above, including a Picasso valued at $50 million, that were stolen last month in a predawn break-in at the SÃ£o Paulo Museum of Art, Reuters reported. The museumâs president, Julio Neves, said Picassoâs âPortrait of Suzanne Blochâ and the Brazilian artist Candido Portinariâs âCoffee Worker,â valued at $5 million, were in perfect condition when found at a house on the cityâs outskirts. The police arrested one suspect, Francisco Laerton Lopes de Lima, on Dec. 27, and his capture led them to Robson de Jesus Jordao, who was arrested on Tuesday. Police Chief Mauricio Freire said the two men had long criminal records, including participation in previous robbery attempts at the museum. Mr. Neves said both paintings would be on view in their previous locations when the museum opens on Friday.