This summer great plans and a lot of movement in Beijing, chosen as the capital for the Olympic games 2008, where athletes from all over the world are landing as well as a special team of sportsmen selected by Andy Warhol. Indeed, the Chinese city has decided to host, from the 26th July in the venue of the Faurschou gallery, a famous collection of portraits by Andy Warhol dedicated to some very notorious athletes.

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Haaken A. Christensen was one of the most influent figures within the international art system for his very sophisticated taste in collecting works of art. For more than forty years, Christensen kept alive one of the most important galleries in Scandinavia, always trying to propose the best of international contemporary art to Norway and show the works of Norwegian artists abroad.
Haaken A. Christensen was born in 1924 and thanks to his exceptional intuition for business he went to down in history as one of the most important and influent dealers and experts in Europe.

New York auctions have given us some exciting news. In particular, two very important new records: Francis Bacon has realized the highest price ever paid for a work of contemporary art and Lucian Freud has become the most paid living artist in the world. However, after the adrenalin stirred up by the important results, the time for questioning arrives. Who might be the mysterious buyer of the fantastic paintings sold in New York? What will become of them? Public exhibition or private viewing?
Some of these questions may have found an answer. Indeed, within the circle there are rumours about a few names, and it seems that the buyer of the two masterpieces of contemporary art sold in the last days has been identified.

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Chess is an historic game which is also practiced competitively today, but was once one of the most enjoyable distractions in the European courts. This game was studied and painted a lot. Lucas Van Leyden, Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Sofonisba Anguissola, and Ludovico Carracci, are just some of the names of illustrious painters who during the Renaissance dedicated interesting paintings to the game and to its players. But today it seems that even the undisputed genius of the renaissance played his part in this field.

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Art and wealth have gone hand in hand since time began. In the last decade, we have observed an upset in the distribution of wealth and in the birth of a very high number of so called “new riches”; this doesn’t mean to say that there were no consequences within the artistic sphere.

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It was not long ago that the German industrialist, Reinhold Wurth, discovered his great passion. It was the start of the seventies and a promising young man was approaching the world of art, showing interest in the german painter Emil Nolde, in German expressionism, to then push himself towards contemporary art, but also turning his eye to German Renaissance art.

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The Italian publisher Rolando Pieraccini, who has lived for about thirty years in Finland, has become an Art Ambassador, or rather he has put into practice the important mystery of the intention of art as an extraordinary diplomatic medium. In his entire career as a publisher, in many ways Pieraccini promoted the cultural rapport between Finland and Italy, organising on one hand, numerous exhibits of Italian artists in Finland and viceversa. And what’s more, he contributed to the formation of relevant modern Finnish art collections in European museums including the Albertina in Vienna and Florence’s Uffizi Gallery.