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Friday, July 5, 2024 |
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Old Masters Get the Grand Treatment |
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NEW YORK/ MAASTRICHT.- From Manhattan to Maastricht, in the Netherlands, art restorers have spent the last six weeks quietly racing the clock in the annual art world ritual that begins in late January with the old master sales in New York and peaks in Maastricht with the recent opening of the International Fine Art Fair. Each year, the world's top art restorers are called upon by anxious dealers to take their old master paintings for evaluation and restoration. The task must be accomplished quickly —to meet the April 15 deadline — but with exquisite care, so the centuries-old paintings will be ready for the world's most important showcase for old masters. Just how much work a painting will need is unclear until the process is under way. Restoring 17th-century paintings is a tricky business. It always involves expertise, detective work and a keen eye. Mr. Alain Goldrach, who spent years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is regarded as one of the best.
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Today's News
July 5, 2024
The wide, wide world of Judy Chicago
Audrey Flack, creator of vibrant photorealist art, dies at 93
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen opens a new presentation of its collection
'Mapping the 60s. Art Histories from the mumok Collections' opens in Vienna
Salvador Dalí's iconic Mae West Lips Sofa goes on display at NGV International
San Francisco's arts institutions are slowly building back
The Beatles and the Beach Boys lead Heritage's Music Memorabilia & Concert Posters Auction
The man behind the Minions
Solo exhibition of new work by Lorna Robertson on view at Alison Jacques
Kröller-Müller Museum restores '56 Barrels' by Christo
parrasch heijnen's first solo exhibition with Nabilah Nordin to open in Los Angeles
One of comicdom's most (in)famous covers, 'Black Cat Mystery' No. 50, scares up a record $840,000 at Heritage Auctions
How a patriotic painting became the Internet's soap box
The Phillips Collection presents 'Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage'
On the Jersey Shore, there's a flag for everything
Ben Hunter and Offer Waterman announce co-representation of Tess Jaray
Paul Theroux on necessary solitude, risks and the joy of writing
Rob Stone, master marketer of hip-hop, is dead at 55
Niclas Larsson is ready to shoot more close-ups
Chinese coins celebrating scientific inventions lead Heritage's $8.4 million HKINF World & Ancient Coins Auction
Paul Smith's Foundation announces inaugural Director
The Dutch LAM museum adds flavour to art viewing experiences
Casino Luxembourg presents 'My Last Will', a project by M+M
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