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• Art market faces jittery times as economy slows
NEW YORK - It took only about 120 seconds last week for a Monet to exchange hands for a small fortune. Christie’s auctioneer Christopher Burge started the bidding at $26 million for a 1873 Claude Monet painting of two puffing locomotives crossing a ...
• Brazil offers beauty and one wild festival
The fishermen leave their boats tilted on the sand like those in a Van Gogh painting. The Vila Kalango was located just inside the tight perimeter, and we dropped our bags in the sand courtyard and were shown to the semi-detached brick and straw ...
• A tale of two crossings
I could take a line-dancing lesson, bid on a painting at auction, nurse a cappuccino next to the two-story fountain in the main "plaza," go to a movie, play a hand of blackjack or bridge. Where does a person start? I started by standing on deck and ...
• What’s new in the National Parks
A conservator works on a section of the famous "Battle of Gettysburg" cyclorama painting, a 360-degree canvas that gives viewers the feeling of being placed in the middle of Pickett's Charge, the climactic clash on the final day of battle, at the new ...
• Earliest oil paintings discovered
Oil paintings have been found in caves behind the two ancient colossal Buddha statues destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, suggesting that Asians — not Europeans — were the first to invent oil painting. Many people worldwide were in shock when the ...

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