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Citing the auction market slump, Moody's downgrades the auction house's debt securities.

 NEW YORK, NY.- Max Protetch Gallery will present Animals, the first US gallery exhibition for Beijing-based artist and filmmaker Sun Xun (born 1980 in Fuxin, Liaoning Province). The exhibition will open on Saturday, November 7 and run through December 23. There will be an opening reception on November 7 from 6:00––8:00pm; the artist will be in attendance.  Animals will feature new work, including ...

Art Positions - the weird name given to the cluster of shipping containers turned into temporary art galleries during Art Basel Miami Beach - is usually one of my favorite things about the fair. Incorporating an experimental lounge area/environment created by an artist, surrounded by galleries most of which I’ve never heard of, and with a DJ and film projections ...

The massive timepiece will be constructed in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.

 NEW YORK, NY (AP)- Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89. DeCarava died in Manhattan of natural causes on Tuesday, said his daughter, Susan DeCarava. He had been teaching an advance photography course at Hunter College, where he joined the faculty in 1975.  Born in ...

*Accidental Creative Podcast* h4. Generosity Generosity in the creative process is a core ethic of healthy, thriving teams and artists. But how do we cultivate the practice of generosity? Right-click (PC) or Control-click (Mac) here to save the podcast MP3 file. [widget:9_steps_guide_design_benifits]

Last week, hundreds of art world insiders came out to bid adieu to e-flux’s Berlin outpost, The Building.

 BALTIMORE, MD.- In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, The Baltimore Museum of Art presents a dramatic exhibition of prints, drawings and illustrated books inspired by the master of the macabre. Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon, on view October 4, 2009-January 17, 2010, features the works of renowned French artists Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, and Odilon Redon, as well ...

At first glance, only that could explain how two very different museums came under fire. One month everyone is celebrating auction prices or grumbling about museum expansions-or was it the other way around? New Yorkers get to make fun of the Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus circle, while still learning to cope with the clumsy boxes and back stairs ...

*Accidental Creative Podcast* h4. Do You Need a Manifesto? Call it a line in the sand. In this podcast, we discuss the basic principles that will guide the AC community moving forward. What does it look like to be brilliant, prolific and healthy? Right-click (PC) or Control-click (Mac) here to save the podcast MP3 file. [widget:9_steps_guide_design_benifits]

A show at Zach Feuer Gallery asks gallerygoers to give of themselves for art.

 LONDON.- Christie’s Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds auction on Tuesday 6 October 2009, presents a dynamic array of over 250 rare works of academic importance and decorative beauty. This sale presents a shift in emphasis from early archeological items to examples from the ‘high period’ dating from the 15th and 16th century onwards. A celebration of the artistic genius of Ottoman ...

*Accidental Creative Podcast* h4. John Winsor In this interview, John Winsor of Crispin, Porter + Bogusky shares his insight on career and creating. John is the author of Spark and Beyond The Brand. Right-click (PC) or Control-click (Mac) here to save the podcast MP3 file. [widget:9_steps_guide_design_benifits]

 MOSCOW.- The latest translation of «The Song of Igor's Campaign» by Victor Tinayev was handed to Dmitry Likhachev, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, more than thirty years ago. It is rumoured that he said that the translation was no worse than any other translation, but that it was unlikely to ever get published. Indeed, very few of more than ...

*Accidental Creative Podcast* h4. Are You Committed to Growth? If you are not growing you are dying. In this AC podcast we take a look at #4 on the AC Manifesto, “we are committed to growth.” Are you developing disciplines in your life to help you grow in your creating? Right-click (PC) or Control-click (Mac) here to save the podcast ...

RALEIGH, NC - North Carolina's top official for arts and culture will visit Fayetteville next week to announce the annual slate of statewidea arts grants. Linda A. Carlisle, secretary of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, picked Fayetteville in part because of the excellence of the Fayetteville/Cumberland County Arts Council, according to her spokeswoman, Bridgette A. Lacy. l A news conference ...

 PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Famed illustrator and cartoonist Arnold Roth, a 1950 graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now theUniversity of the Arts), is one of five inductees elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. Roth’s work has appeared regularly in nearly every major American magazine from Time to Sports Illustrated to The New Yorker for the past 50 ...

BELLEVILLE, IL -- Art on the Square, the city's treasured annual art fair, has for the first time been ranked the No. 3 art show in the nation in a Florida-based magazine for artists. The art fair has made Sunshine Artist Magazine's list of 100 top fine art shows every year since the show's first run in 2002, with rankings ranging ...

 DRESDEN.- Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869), who lived in Dresden from 1814 until his death, was not only an important artist – he was a Renaissance man in the true sense of the word and an outstanding representative of the intellectual and scientific life of his day. A physician, natural philosopher, man of letters, painter and draughtsman, Carl Gustav Carus occupies a special ...

Can you imagine fire consuming your artwork? It is every artist's worst nightmare. What about a fire consuming an art collection that is unparalleled anywhere? That's what happened to Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s home and collection worth millions. Whose work was destroyed? The fire took a long time to put out. Find out why. Read the shocking story and "see the lost ...