Friday, October 22, 2010

Daily art news

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason said that legendary rock band may reunite to give charity concerts.Group albums which sold worldwide in millions of copies, and was last performed together in 2005 in London. According to Mason, the group most likely will play in favor of a charitable foundation, which spends money to various good deeds.

 

Co-Chairman of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Department Worldwide David Norman introduces Claude Monet's painting "Les Demoiselles de Giverny" at a Sotheby's selling exhibition in Beijing October 21, 2010. The 21 works of impressionist and modern art's most important artists, including Picasso and Claude Monet, will be displayed in the Chinese capital and Hong Kong with prices ranging from HK$ 15.6 to 195 million (US $2-25 million).


In the Internet On Oct. 18 opened access to a database of art objects stolen by the Nazis during World War II. In the list of nearly 20,000 objects, taken from occupied Belgium and France in 1940-44, respectively.Creating a database by the Association of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Feature of this database is that it does not just contain information about the paintings or sculptures, but consists of digitized archives of the Second World War.

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