Art and Artifice - June 2021 Archive

Archive 34

Italian museums reopening

May 2021: Video report at ABC News

Musee d'Orsay in Paris about to re-open with 5,000 per day limit

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Picasso: Woman Sitting Near a Window (Marie-Therese) sold for $103.4m (£73.5m)

May 14, 2021: Thursday at Christie's auction house in New York.

Story at BBC News

VMFA Museum in Richmond Virginia, 2021

Da Vinci drawing of bear going to auction - UK Guardian

NGA to reopen

Whistlers Girl in White at the NGA

National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is finally going to open up (with "timed passes") on May 14.

More National Gallery of Art

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