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Culture Zohn: Marlene Dumas, Measuring Her Own Grave

Patricia Zohn | Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Otto Dix, Marlene Dumas, Diane Arbus, Francis Bacon, Richard Avedon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Van Gogh, Museum of Modern Art, Entertainment News
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2008-06-26-0front.jpgThough Dumas' subject may be fear, she, herself, is fearless.

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Gunmen Grab $163m in Art at Swiss Museum

AP | ERNST E. ABEGG | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Art Heist, E.G. Buehrle Collection, Claude Monet, Monet, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh, Swiss Museums, European Museums, Zurich Museums, Art Robbers, Paul Cezanne, Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Degas, Business News

ZURICH, Switzerland — Three gunmen in ski masks and dark clothes burst into a museum just before closing time. After a quick run through the bui...

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Methuselah Laughing: Liars, Suckers, and Human Mortality

Dan Agin | Posted 11.27.2007 | Living

Read More: Jeanne Calment, Life-Span, Aging Research, How to Live Longer, Van Gogh, Biology, Immortality, Alex Comfort, Living News
Dan Agin

Research on aging and longevity is underfunded, not overfunded. The cost to the U.S. taxpayers of one month of the Iraq war would fund a serious war against mortality for ten years.

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$5 Billion Of Masterpiece Art Locked Away In Iran

Guardian | Robert Tait | Posted 10.31.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Magritte, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Miro, Renoir, Braque, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Tehran, Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro, Entertainment News

The Picasso masterpiece is worth an estimated £25-30m on the international art market, but its only regular contact with the human eye is the fiercel...

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Sotheby's To Sell Van Gogh's Last Masterpiece

AP | Posted 09.23.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Van Gogh's the Fields, Van Gogh, Sotheby's, Entertainment News

One of Vincent van Gogh's final landscapes, "The Fields," will be auctioned in New York in November, a British newspaper reported Saturday. The paint...

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