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Van Gogh, Gauguin, Chagall Headline Rare Phillips Collection Show (photos!)

Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Marc Chagall, and their works will be combined in a new exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., bringing together works assembled by two noted Swiss collectors for the first and only time in the United States. The Phillips will exhibit more than 60 celebrated masterpieces by titans of the modern art movement. All were created during the mid-19th and 20th centuries....

Andy Warhol Iconic Liz Taylor Painting at Center of Legal Battle

Andy Warhol’s iconic painting of Elizabeth Taylor is at the center of an intense legal battle between the artist’s foundation and Warhol’s former bodyguard, who claims the artist gave him the painting 30 years ago. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which manages the artist’s estate, claims however that the painting was stolen. The former bodyguard, Agusto Bugarin, claimed through his attorney that Warhol gave him the painting for work he did renovating the apartment of one of Warhol’s lovers Jon Gould, after ending his relationship with Jed Johnson....
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Freer Gallery Hosts Chinese Martial Arts, 3-D Technology Gala

The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. will transform into a cultural hot spot for the final “Asia After Dark” after-hours event, featuring a night of exploration and discovery into Chinese martial arts and 3-D printing technology. Guests can explore 3-D scanning and printing with experts from the Smithsonian’s digitization program unit and participate in the creation of a 10-foot-tall replica statue of the Freer’s renowned “Cosmological Buddha.”...

Salander Art Fraud Case Ends With Guilty Plea

One of the biggest art frauds in recent memory that drew in celebrities like tennis star John McEnroe, hot shot financiers and even art world denizens came to an uncerimonial close this week when the perpetrator, Lawrence B. Salander, 60, pleaded guilty....