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		<title>Top Auction Results for Contemporary Photographers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cindy Sherman, Andreas Gursky, and Richard Prince
Photography sales - with particularly strong results in the US and in London - have demonstrated collector&#8217;s appetites for the Contemporary segment of the market. However, this market is still very much in its infancy and only represented 2% of total Fine Art sales revenue in 2010 (and 52% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/blog/2011/08/25/top-auction-results-for-contemporary-photographers/</link>
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		<title>Jacques Louis David&#8217;s The Death of Socrates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Death of Socrates: Jacques Louis David
Jacques Louis David arose from a wealthy and well-connected family. He seemed always to escape serious problems and at the same time move into less prominent positions of power. He was political in nature and used art to push his views. At times he moved ahead and at others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/blog/2011/08/25/jacques-louis-davids-the-death-of-socrates/</link>
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		<title>Park West Gallery and the Art of the Con</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Silver Wedding Anniversary Celebration Turns Into the Cruise from Hell
Abe Hershkowitz is a victim of Park West Gallery and he is one of those rare individuals that refuses to sit down and shut up &#8212; no matter how much Park West Gallery and its miserable lawyers threatened him. Abe is a colorful character, larger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/blog/2011/08/19/park-west-gallery-and-the-art-of-the-con/</link>
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		<title>Roman Opalka (1931-2011), Remembered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roman Opalka, Polish Numbers Painter, Remembered
Artists who devote their entire lives to a single project are rare.
Roman OPALKA will go down in art history as one of the most ascetic and most coherent of them all. Roman Opalka died suddenly on 6 August 2011 aged 79, putting an end to a work that he began [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/blog/2011/08/19/roman-opalka-1931-2011-remembered/</link>
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		<title>Pop Art George Segal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[George Segal, Pop Artist?
George Segal was born in the Bronx in 1924. His parents arrived from Eastern Europe and operated a butcher shop. They moved to New Jersey where they opened a chicken farm. George worked on the farm but was accepted into Stuyvesant High School in New York forcing George to move in with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/blog/2011/08/16/pop-art-george-segal/</link>
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		<title>Park West Gallery, Scaglione and Ira Shore Reunite and Share the Art Auction Rip Off Spotlight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another Cruise Ship Art Auction Rip Off? Really? So What Else is New?
Fine Art Registry® has been reporting on fraudulent, unfair, and deceptive art auction sales aboard cruise ships for well over four years now and the monkey business continues. You will want to check out this latest article of yet another art auction rip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/blog/2011/08/16/park-west-gallery-scaglione-and-ira-shore-reunite-and-share-the-art-auction-rip-off-spotlight/</link>
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		<title>Lucian Freud (1922-2011) Remembered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lucian Freud - British Painter, Remembered
Lucian Freud, grandson of the founder of psycho-analysis, Sigmund Freud, passed away on 20 July 2011. His powerful body of work, adored by some, hated by others, is nevertheless immortal and the world&#8217;s major museums and top collectors will continue to keep it alive.
Attracting fierce bidding at auctions, in 2008 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/blog/2011/08/05/lucian-freud-1922-2011-remembered/</link>
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		<title>Katerina Stamatelos, featured artist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Katerina Stamatelos - Fine Art Registry member and featured artist
Katerina Stamatelos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. She is an accomplished pianist holding a PhD in Composition. As a pianist she has performed in Greece, Austria, Germany, the United States, and Canada. She has appeared as a soloist with all major orchestras of Greece and on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/blog/2011/08/05/katerina-stamatelos-featured-artist/</link>
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		<title>Cy Twombly (1928-2011) Remembered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cy Twombly - American Painter
Cy Twombly [Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr.] died on 5 July in Rome. The American artist had lived the last 60 years of his life in Italy.
A Post-War artist, Cy TWOMBLY was marginally associated with the American abstract expressionist artists in the 1950s. His works look like graphic psychological releases mixing writing, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/blog/2011/08/05/cy-twombly-1928-2011-remembered/</link>
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		<title>Silver Gilt Roman Drinking Cups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Museum Docent - Series
In the Princeton University Art Museum Ancient Art section a 1st century A.D. Roman drinking cup is currently on view. The cup with Bacchic motifs in high relief was purchased by the museum in 2000 from the Fowler McCormick Fund . The silver gilt cup was signed on the foot by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/blog/2011/08/05/silver-gilt-roman-drinking-cups/</link>
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