Modern art

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Modern art Information
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Modern art is a general term used for most of the artistic work from the late 19th century until approximately the 1970s. (Recent art production is more often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art). Modern art refers to the new approach to art which...

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The New York Observer

Jerry Speyer Elected Chairman of MoMA
5/30/2007: 910 words, approx. 3 pages

What a Tuesday for Jerry Speyer! First, his firm partners with Lehman Brothers to buy apartment behemoth Archstone-Smith in a historic deal worth $22.2 billion. Then, the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art elects him its chairman. Effective July 1, Mr. Speyer...

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Sotheby's sale fetches $186 million
2/6/2007: 288 words, approx. 1 pages

Bidders shelled out $186 million in a sale of impressionist and modern art that ranked as one of Sotheby's biggest ever in Europe, the auction house said Tuesday.The sensation of the Monday night bidding was Chaim Soutine's "L'Homme au Foulard Rouge" ("The Man in the...

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