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Adam Elsheimer's 'The Flight Into Egypt' is a small gem

March 20, 2010  •  Wall Street Journal

When the National Galleries of Scotland mounted an exhibition of Adam Elsheimer's paintings in 2006, curators subtitled the show "Devil in the Detail" and provided a free magnifying glass in the £6 ticket price. For the cover of the accompanying catalog, they chose an inky, moonlit scene, a detail from "The Flight Into Egypt," which Elsheimer painted in 1609, the year before he died.

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The Art Of The Deal Helps Spread Great Art

March 18, 2010  •  The New York Times

LATE last month , the High Museum in Atlanta announced that two masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance — Titian's "Diana and Actaeon" and "Diana and Callisto" — plus 23 other Venetian works would be coming to town next fall, on loan from the National Galleries of Scotland. It was enough to make art lovers swoon.

Beyond the headline was an even bigger coup for the High. The exhibition, opening next fall, is the start of yet another museum partnership that promises to bring great art to Atlanta over the next few years.

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Why Older Women Are Going Back To Work

March 16, 2010  •  Forbes.com

Patricia Daly, 56, was a managing director at Credit Suisse in June, 2008 when her department was reorganized, and she was out of a job. "Retirement crossed my mind, but when I looked at our investments and at the economic uncertainties, retiring when I still had earning potential didn't seem smart," she recalls. After six months of traveling and enjoying time with her husband, who is retired, she started consulting from home. Her new career, however, did not produce a "livable wage."

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Taking the High Line: the art park that rivals MoMA

March 6, 2010  •  The Art Newspaper

If exhibition attendance were the sole measure of curatorial clout, Lauren Ross, 39, would rank almost as high as the chief curator of MoMA in the New York art world—and she doesn't even work for a museum.

Her curatorial domain is the High Line, the elevated park that courses through New York's meatpacking district from Chelsea to the West Village. Since section one (Gansevoort Street to 20th Street) opened in June 2009, it has attracted around two million visitors; if that pace continues, it could near MoMA's 2008-09 total of 2.8 million. Although many visit for the greenery and the view, the park's contemporary art installations are increasingly stealing the limelight.

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The Art of the Grateful Dead

March 5, 2010  •  The Daily Beast

As soon as you walk into the New-York Historical Society, you start to wonder if someone has been smoking something. Strung above the arched entryway of this stuffy, 206-year-old institution is a garland of big red roses; nearby, there's a skeleton.

Yes, the Dead is back in town. The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society runs through July 4 and puts the most comprehensive collection of posters, T-shirts, hand-decorated fan mail, backstage guest lists, awards, stage backdrops, and other Deadiana, alongside Lincoln and New York and New York Painting Begins: Eighteenth Century Portraits.

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