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  • "Ned Kelly" painting sells for record

    2010-04-01 08:37

    Australia's most expensive painting, a Sidney Nolan "Ned Kelly" work, was given away on Wednesday only days after setting the nation's art record.

  • Collector switches from fine objects to peoples

    2010-03-30 10:10

    After decades spent amassing the world's top private collection of tribal arts, Swiss collector Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller is switching his sights - crusading to save the heritage of little-known peoples across the globe.

  • Out with fakes

    2010-03-30 10:07

    With more Chinese taking to collecting antiques, and official relics experts serving mainly museums, television is stepping in to fill the gap.

  • Private fantasies, creative vulnerability

    2010-03-29 09:59

    British artist presents cultures in photographs.

  • Bastards gives birth to Brats

    2010-03-24 09:28

    Director Zhang Yuan's latest project, a photo exhibit with video interviews, takes a look at youth angst.

  • New York museum adds @ symbol to design collection

    2010-03-23 08:49

    For the French, it may always remind them of delicious escargot, but for most everyone else the @ symbol has come to embody the age of the Internet and its constantly evolving language.

  • Brussels instrument museum rich in sounds of music

    2010-03-22 08:48

    Don't go to the Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments -- affectionately known as the MIM -- unless you're prepared for constant surprises.

  • Dubai art fair upbeat despite city's debt woes

    2010-03-22 08:44

    Dubai's annual art fair hit new highs in both sales and volumes despite concerns in the Gulf's trading and tourism hub over a debt crisis.

  • Bidding a fond farewell to the past

    2010-03-15 09:52

    The paintings of Han Xin capture modern life as it intrudes on tradition.

  • Matteo Ricci exhibition offers a glimpse of early cultural exchange

    2010-03-15 09:50

    2010 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Matteo Ricci, an Italian missionary who introduced Western culture, art and science to China during the Ming dynasty.

  • European heritage label seeks to bind EU states

    2010-03-12 09:15

    In an effort to create a sense of shared history, the European Union has launched an initiative to promote important sites of culture and heritage across its 27 member states and the continent.

  • 'Secret Giotto' comes to light

    2010-03-11 09:56

    Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto's paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries.

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