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10/24/11--04:33: Exhibit examines American interest in Rembrandt (chan 2539766)

The North Carolina Museum of Art has curated an exhibit of 30 works by Rembrandt from American collectors, which is especially appropriate considering that the museum's first director was partly responsible for authenticating many works as painted by the Dutch artist that turned out not to be actual Rembrandts.


10/26/11--06:38: Performance artist gives birth in gallery (chan 2539766)

Having called giving birth "the highest form of art," performance artist Marni Kotak has completed her first project: The birth of a baby boy inside a Brooklyn art gallery.







10/26/11--12:18: Smurf drawings could sell for $167,000 each (chan 2539766)

Rare original drawings of the Smurfs, blue-skinned cartoon characters created by Belgian artist Peyo, are set to fetch up to 120,000 euros ($167,000) each on Saturday in the first auction of the late artist's work.







10/27/11--10:07: Kevorkian estate to sell disputed paintings (chan 2539766)

Seventeen paintings created by the late Dr. Jack Kevorkian are set to go up for auction, despite lawsuits from museums that claim ownership.







10/31/11--11:32: Mystery maker dubbed 'Wireman' in Philly art show (chan 2539766)

Three decades after hundreds of strange wire-bound oddities were saved from the trash heap, an art gallery eight blocks from where they were dumped at a curb is featuring a selection of works made by a mystery artist dubbed the Philadelphia Wireman.







10/31/11--11:46: Klimt painting expected to sell for $25M (chan 2539766)

"Litzlberg on the Attersee," a landscape by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that was stolen by the Nazis before being returned to its owner's heir is expected to fetch at least $25 million.







11/09/11--11:57: Milwaukee exhibit looks at impressionist drawings (chan 2539766)

Impressionist and post-impressionist artists changed art history with their radical ideas of using freely brushed paint color that emphasized light and movement on common subjects, but a new exhibition is looking beyond the paintings and suggests that impressionists' drawings helped elevate the status of works on paper and influenced abstract expressionist artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock.







12/13/11--16:40: Bennett's nude sketch of Gaga up for auction (chan 2539766)

Holy fame monster! As Vanity Fair subscribers may already know, January cover girl Lady Gaga didn't just get her pose on for famed photographer Annie Leibovitz.


12/13/11--16:41: Whoops! Cleaner scrubs away part of artwork (chan 2539766)

Officials in Germany say a modern-art installation valued at €800,000 ($1.1 million) was seriously damaged after an overzealous cleaning woman scrubbed away a patina intended to look like a dried rain puddle.