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New York Times

Sit. Stay. Good Art.
New York Times
With the opening on Monday of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in its 136th year (the show predates the Brooklyn Bridge and is only seven years younger than the Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrating the enduring appeal of man's best friend), ...

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New York Times

'Testimonios,' Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio
New York Times
They also point to a kind of creative fluidity that is especially endemic among the rich ethnic mix of Hispanic cultures in the Americas, where the lines dividing high and low, art and handicraft can be inspiringly blurry. And so this show sets art and ...

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New Art Fair Highlights Miami Hotspot
Huffington Post
Images from the innovative new Wynwood Art fair, set to open next week: (from top) work by artist Retna, courtesy of Goldman Properties; Courtesy of Waterhouse and Dodd; "Wynwood Walls," courtesy of Goldman Properties. Fresh out of Miami for its ...

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Sydney Morning Herald

Art Gallery of NSW looks to new brand for Capon's successor
Sydney Morning Herald
Michael Brand has been appointed the new director of the Art Gallery of NSW. Photo: New York Times After months of searching, the Art Gallery of NSW has found a successor to Edmund Capon - the legendary director who steered the gallery for 33 years.
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Australian Dr Michael Brand is the new director for the Art Gallery of NSWThe Daily Telegraph
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Los Angeles Times

Huntington picks Kevin Salatino to head its art collections
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Salatino, director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, was named Thursday as the next director of art collections at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. Salatino, 55, will succeed ...

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Dog Art at Metropolitan Museum and Morgan Library
From mutts to purebreds, dogs are immortalized in New York City?s art collections.

?Spies in the House of Art? at the Metropolitan Museum
The 17 contemporary works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art?s exhibition ?Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film and Video? were inspired by museums.

Huntington picks Kevin Salatino to head its art collections
The Huntington Library has named Kevin Salatino as its next director of art collections. Now the director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, he previously worked in L.A. from 1991 to 2009, as a curator of graphic arts at both the Getty Research Institute and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Merchandise Mart pulls plug on art fair
The Merchandise Mart has pulled the plug on Next Art Chicago, the merger of Art Chicago and the newer NEXT fair that took place concurrently in the building.

Led by China, global art market hits new record
Global art auction sales surged to a record $11.5 billion (8.7 billion euros) last year despite the weak world economy, with China cementing its spot as the top market, research showed Wednesday.

Led by China, global art market hits new record: report
Global art auction sales surged to a record $11.5 billion (8.7 billion euros) last year despite the weak world economy, with China cementing its spot as the top market, research showed Wednesday.

Art reviews: 'Common Ground,' AMOCA; 'Clay's Tectonic Shift,' Scripps
Christopher Knight reviews two Pacific Standard Time ceramic shows, tracing a clay revolution from 1945 to the 1970s.

The boom of Turkey's art market
After being virtually ignored for decades, both at home and abroad, Turkish modern art has rapidly developed into a booming market.

Art world mourns Spanish great Antoni Tapies
Spanish leaders and the entire art world mourned Tuesday the death of the great avant-garde painter and sculptor Antoni Tapies.

Art review: Kristen Morgin's 'Snow White' at Marc Selwyn Fine Art
David Pagel reviews Kristen Morgin's "Snow White in Evening Wear and Other Works" at Marc Selwyn Fine Art