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Not a Gala Night as La Scala Scrambles to Replace Star

The soprano who was to sing the role of Elsa in "Lohengrin" comes down with the flu, and so does her understudy.

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Dallas Museum of Art Will Eliminate Entrance Fee

Taking a page from government-supported museums in England, the Dallas Museum of Art is dispensing with its $10 general admissions charge.

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National Geographic Society Unloads Some Treasures

An auction of more than 200 works of art at Christie's brings in nearly $4 million.

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Pompidou Center Reaches Across Atlantic for a Curator

The French museum is expanding its acquisitions of American art.

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Man Who Defaced Rothko Work Given Two-Year Sentence

Wlodzimierz Umanets put black paint and graffiti on the painting at the Tate Modern in London.

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Unprecedented Loan Show From the Prado to Open in Houston

Paintings by Rubens, Titian, El Greco, Goya, Velázquez and others will go on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Sunday, in a blockbuster exhibition called "Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from...

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Like a Fairy Tale: Hans Christian Andersen Story Is Found in a Box

The story, "Tallow Candle," is believed to be one of his early works.

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Damien Hirst Leaves Gagosian

Less than a year after the Gagosian Gallery gave Damien Hirst all 11 of its spaces around the world to show his spot paintings, word comes that the bad-boy British artist will no longer be represented...

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Director of Louvre to Step Down

Henri Loyrette spearheaded some big projects and also brought contemporary art to the museum.

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Simon de Pury Steps Down from Helm of Phillips de Pury

The struggling boutique auction house announced that Simon de Pury -- its chairman, principal auctioneer and the face of the company for the last 12 years -- is leaving.

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Titian Discovered at London's National Gallery

A brooding portrait of a bearded man that had been "buried in the bowels" of the National Gallery in London, as the museum's director, Nicholas Penney, put it, has been declared a Titian by art...

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Ground Is Officially Broken on Met Museum's 'David H. Koch Plaza'

The Metropolitan Museum of Art held a formal ground-breaking on Monday morning for the $65 million makeover of its plaza and fountains, a project that has been under construction since October.

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Buffalo's Albright-Knox Gets a Director from Much Farther North

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo's modern and contemporary art museum, announced on Monday that Janne Sirén, director of the Helsinki Art Museum in Finland, will become its next director. He is...

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Chinese Vase Said to Sell for Less Than Half Its Record-Setting Price

An 18th-century Chinese vase that sold for a record-setting $83 million at auction in 2010 but never paid for has now been sold for less than half that amount, according to Bloomberg.

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Met Reports One Millionth Visitor to New Islamic Galleries

On Friday, officials at the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that attendance at its 14-and-a-half-month-old galleries devoted to the arts of the Islamic world had topped the one-million mark --...

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George Condo, On View In and Outside the Metropolitan Opera House

A large black-and-white banner featuring a court jester by the artist George Condo is currently up on the façade of the Metropolitan Opera House, advertising the Met's new production of Verdi's...

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Works From a Major Indian Art Collection to Be Auctioned at Sotheby's

Amrita Jhaveri, a former Christie's art expert who is now a writer and a major collector of modern and contemporary art from her native India, will sell a portion of her collection at Sotheby's in New...

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Picasso Fetches $44.8 Million at Auction

A canvas Picasso painted of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter brought $44.8 million at Sotheby's in London on Tuesday evening.

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Judge Asked to Settle Twombly Foundation Dispute

A Delaware judge has been asked to settle a feud among the directors of a foundation established by Cy Twombly.

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Christie's Raises Its Commissions

Typically, when one auction house increases its fees the others follow.

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