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LA/OC AREA EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Fall 2008 and Spring 2009
 The Getty Center http://getty.edu
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Admission: Free / Parking $8
"The Marvel and Measure of Peru: 1550-1880"
July 8 - October 19, 2008
"Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture"
August 5 - October 26, 2008
"Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture"
August 12 - October 26, 2008
"The Belles Heures of the Duke Berry"
November 18, 2008 - February 8, 2009
"Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna 1575-1725"
December 16, 2008 - May 3, 2009
"Sur le Motif: Painting in Nature around 1800"
September 23, 2008 - March 8, 2009
 The Getty Villa Malibu
17985 Pacific Coast Highway
Pacific Palisades, CCA 90272
Admission: Free / Advanced Tickets Required
"Grecian Taste and Roman Spirit: Society of Dilettanti"
August 7 - October 27, 2008
"JIm Dine: Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets)"
October 30, 2008 - February 9, 2009
Fragment to Vase: Approaches to Ceramic Restoration"
December 18, 2008 - June 1, 2009
Permanent Collection: Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities
 Orange County Museum of Art
850 San Clemente Drive www.ocma.net
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Admission and Parking Prices Vary
"2008 California Biennial",
October 26, 2008 - March 15, 2009
 Norton Simon Museum
411 W. Colorado Blvd. www.nortonsimon.org
Pasadena, CA 91105-1825
Admission and Parking Prices Vary
"Marcel Duchamp Redux"
April 25 - December 8, 2008
"A Garland of Melodies: Ragamala Paintings from India and Nepal"
"May 30 - November 3, 2008
Vermeer's A Lady Writing: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC"
November 7, 2008 - February 2, 2009
 Los Angeles Cty Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard http://www.lacma.org
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Admission and Parking Prices Vary
"Tradition as Innovation in African Art"
...through November 2, 2008
"Francis Alys, Fabiola"
September 7, 2008 - January 4, 2009
"William Randolf Hearst the Collector"
November 9, 2008 - February 1, 2009
San Diego Museums in Balboa Park
www.sdmart.org
www.sdnhm.org
Balboa Park
San Diego, CA
Admission and Parking Prices Vary
MUSEUM OF ART
"Georgia O'Keefe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle
May 24 - September 28, 2008
"Oceanic Works"
January 31, 2009 - January 3, 2010
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
"Spirits in Stone: Art and Animals of Africa"
July 11 - October 12, 2008
"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor." ~ Paul Getty
"Give me a museum, and I'll fill it." ~ Pablo Picasso
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800 year-old Cross Found in Dump
Reuters: 08/17/07
VIENNA - An 800-year-old, gold plated crucifix that went missing after being seized by the Nazis has been found in a garbage heap in Austria, police said.
The crucifix, made of copper and enamel, was crafted in Limoges, France, and was part of a Polish art collection brought to Austria during Nazi rule, Josef Holzberger, police spokesman in Salzburg, said on Thursday.
It was found in 2004 in the lakeside winter resort of Zell am See by a woman combing through a dump filled with the discarded possessions of a neighbour who had just died.
"The lady had a soft spot for old crockery and was rummaging for plates when she found the crucifix," said Holzberger. She asked the deceased's family, and they said she could have it." Last month the woman showed the crucifix to a friend who realized it might be something special and took it to a museum.
In the run-up to the Second World War, the owners had the crucifix hidden inside the basement of a house in Warsaw. But it was discovered by the Nazis in 1941, brought to the Polish National Museum and later transferred to a castle in the Austrian village of Bruck an der Grossglocknerstrasse, near Zell am See, police said. We lost track of what happened then -- we don't know how the crucifix ended up in Zell am See," he said.
The crucifix might be worth up to $539,000 at auction. Poland's culture ministry has contacted the London-based Commission for Looted Art in Europe, which represents the heirs of former art collectors, Holzberger said.
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Two Early Renaissance Works Sell for $3.4M
(London April 20, 2007) Two small panels by Dominican artist-monk Fra Angelico were sold at a Dorchester auction house to an anonymous European bidder, despite the bidding efforts of the Italian government who had hoped to bring them back to Italy. The works belonged to retired Oxford manuscript librarian Jean Preston. Ms. Preston had originally purchased them in California in the 1960s, while on holiday, for two hundred dollars.
The two panels, only five inches wide each, originally were two of eight small panels that flanked a central altarpiece depicting Madonna Enthroned. The polyptych was commisisoned by Cosimo de Medici for St. Marco in Florence. The two have been lost since Napoleon invaded Italy in the late 18th century.
The panels new home has not yet been announced, but they are expected to remain in Europe.
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