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 The Art Newspaper newsletter
July 22, 2005


>From News: 

Student discovers detailed inventories of Sir Robert Walpole's art
collection


The documents had been overlooked by generations of historians- By Martin
Bailey 


LONDON. A volunteer working at the National Archives has made a major
discovery, a cache of inventories of Sir Robert Walpole's possessions. These
list the paintings owned by the first resident of 10 Downing Street, many of
which were bought by Catherine the Great and are now in the collection of
the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. They include... 
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>From News: 

Art in the age of global terrorism


The story of Gregor Schneider's installation for St Mark's Square - By
Gareth Harris 


VENICE. The German artist Gregor Schneider is claiming that an installation
commissioned for the Venice Biennale, which opened in June and runs until 6
November, has been censored "For political reasons". Although biennale
officials have now admitted this, a number of senior curators questioned by
The Art Newspaper have questioned the project's... 
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>From Museums: 

Virginia gets $100 million gift of American art 


The donation puts the collection on par with those in Boston, New York and
Washington, DC, says director- By Jason Edward Kaufman 


RICHMOND. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has received 130 American
paintings, valued in excess of $100 million, from trustee Frances G.
McGlothlin and her husband James W. McGlothlin, chairman and ceo of the
Virginia-based financial services and industrial supply company United Co.
and one of the US's wealthiest individuals. The gift transforms... 
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>From Art Market: 

Australians look to their own


They prefer to buy their own artists, while Aboriginal art is in
international demand- By Sebastian Smee 


MELBOURNE. In May, Sotheby's in Melbourne sold off the Foster's art
collection, one of the most important corporate art collections in the
country. The sale, intended to please the beer and wine company's
shareholders, raised over A$13 million (」5.3 million, $9.8 million),
prompting Justin Miller, the Chairman of Sotheby's Australia, to trumpet it
as... 
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