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Contemporary art in China: Chinese checkers | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/18985799?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/chinesecrackers

BUYING Chinese contemporary art is not for the faint-hearted.

Artupdate.com | contemporary art exhibition listings

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From the VIP Art Fair to Art.sy, the Art Gallery Goes Digital - WSJ.com

Next weekend, art collectors sitting at computers in London, Toronto and Miami will find themselves face to face with the same work of art, a montage by American artist Robert Rauschenberg.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704803604576077843507545246.html

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http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2009/11/23/a-la-foire-d-abou-dhabi-le-public-admire-mais-l-emirat-achete-peu_1270867_3246.html#xtor=RSS-3246

Abou Dhabi 2010

http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=1111083&clef=ARC-TRK-NC_01#xtor=RSS-3246

Les artisans du Louvre Abou Dhabi - LeMonde.fr

Une agence française, installée à Paris, est chargée par la ville-émirat du golfe Persique de créer un musée sans équivalent dans le monde. Le musée que le Louvre doit livrer à l'émirat d'Abou Dhabi, un des plus attendus au monde, se fabrique dans deux appartements d'un immeuble bourgeois, au coeur de Paris : 900 m2 près du marché Montorgueil où vingt-huit personnes travaillent depuis deux ans.

Here, on a barren island on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, workers have dug the foundations for three colossal museums: an $800 million -designed branch of the Guggenheim 12 times the size of its New York flagship; a half-billion-dollar outpost of the by ; and a showcase for national history by Foster & Partners, the design for which was unveiled on Thursday. And plans are moving ahead for yet another museum, about maritime history, to be designed by .

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/arts/design/27museums.html?pagewanted=all

Abu Dhabi and Qatar Build Museums to Recast National Identities - NYTimes.com

Bâle : parcours dans la ville aux trésors | exponaute

Bâle : sa foire d'art contemporain (Art Basel), son grand champion (Roger Federer), son fleuve majestueux (le Rhin).

http://www.exponaute.com/magazine/2011/12/02/bale-parcours-dans-la-ville-aux-tresors/

Tate Britain | Your Collection

Government-sponsored museums that have stopped charging since 2001 have seen combined visitor rates more than double in the past decade, figures show.

Free museums: Visits more than double

The Spectacular Life and Finds of Max von Oppenheim

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,741928,00.html

A new exhibition in Berlin's Pergamon Museum displays 3,000-year-old finds from Syria that fell victim to bombing in World War II and were painstakingly reassembled over almost a decade. But just as interesting is the checkered life story of Max von Oppenheim, the aristocratic German archaeologist who discovered them. The Irish writer Samuel Beckett and Iraqi King Faisal I had traveled to Berlin to marvel at the latest sensation in the German capital.