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The Art Institute of Chicago Acquires Nearly 500 19th-Century American Photographs
Plus, David Bowie's Tintoretto will resurface in Venice, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn opens a new art center.
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24 Impressionist Master Paintings Donated to the High Museum of Art
Plus, the University of Chicago Library now has the largest institutional collection of Vivian Maier photographs, and the Getty Research Institute has acquired the massive archive of Sidney B. Felsen.
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Metropolitan Museum Will Sell Over 300 Chinese Artworks to Fund New Acquisitions
Plus, the Meadows Museum in Dallas has acquired four works of Spanish art, a Kansas City home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright sold for $920,000, and Shepard Fairey donated three prints to be shown in the Art the Arms Fair.
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Vintage Labor Posters and More Just Sold for Over $500,000
Plus, works by Salvador Dalí and other Spanish artists will go to the Meadows Museum, and the Krannert Art Museum will house the portfolios of Hal Fischer.
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Mead Art Museum Receives Over 170 Pieces of Contemporary Art From Anonymous Donor
Plus, that iconic portrait of Beyoncé is going to the National Portrait Gallery, and three museums in Munich have joined to restitute nine Nazi-looted artworks.
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Iconic Rembrandt Etching Acquired by Princeton University Art Museum
Plus, 8,300 works by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein will find a new home, and Alicia Keys and husband Swizz Beatz have bought paintings by Tschabalala Self.
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The Clearest Recordings of the First Moon Landing Sold for $1.82 Million
Plus: the photo archives of Ebony and Jet magazines have found their buyer, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York has acquired 45 new pieces.
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Andy Warhol Foundation Awards $3.81 Million in Spring 2019 Grants
Plus, the Pérez Art Museum Miami receives $1 million for its Caribbean Cultural Institute, Spain's Museo Nacional del Prado acquires 11 new works, and Penske Media buys Art Market Monitor.
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Egypt to Sue Christie’s Auction House After Sale of King Tut Bust
Plus, heirs of an Austrian cabaret singer win a lawsuit over Nazi-looted Egon Schiele drawings, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts adds 111 works to its permanent collection.
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The Little Ivory Chess Piece That Sold for Almost $1 Million
Plus, last week's case of who bought the maybe-Caravaggio painting has apparently been solved, and the Fyre Festival island is up for sale.
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This Disputed Caravaggio Is a Centuries-Long Mystery and Was Sold for an Undisclosed Price
Plus, a painting by Toyin Ojih Odutola achieved the highest-ever price for work by a Nigerian artist.
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The Gun that May Have Killed Vincent van Gogh Sold for Over $180,000
Plus, Sotheby's has gone private to the tune of $3.7 billion, LA's Broad Museum has acquired a work by David Hammons, and the world's largest of visual and concrete poetry has moved.