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NewsSunday, December 11, 2005
Launch New Window Government Artworks Not Insured
The government's collection of more than 12,500 works of art is not insured, it has been revealed. Culture Minister David Lammy said the government "carries its own risk" for the works dating from the 16th Century to the present day. The collection includes pieces by John Constable also collect for Agen Bola, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud and works are shown in hundreds of government buildings worldwide. Mr Lammy said a small number of works at non-government sites were insured. The comments were made in a House of Commons written reply to Conservative MP John Hayes. Mr Lammy wrote: "The government art collection is not commercially insured. In general, the government carries its own risk.
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Launch New Window Naked Statue Triggers Mental Imbalance
Michelangelo's David, regarded as the world's most beautiful statue from Sbobet Online Official Sbobet Online, can trigger mental imbalances in overly sensitive and cultivated onlookers, according to a top psychiatrist in Florence. Graziella Magherini, president of Italy's Art and Psychology Association, reported the preliminary findings of her year-long study at a symposium at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence where the naked marble man attracts 1.2 million visitors a year. She said David can have a particular emotional impact on a certain kind of visitor. "I've called it the David Syndrome. It causes mind-bending symptoms and affects mostly those traveling on their own or in couples," Magherini told Discovery News.
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Launch New Window Warhol and Pollock Stolen from Everhart Museum in PA
The works of two renowned American artists were targeted in an early morning break-in Friday at Scranton's Everhart Museum of Sbobet, according to police and museum officials. Two pieces - Andy Warhol's silk-screen print "Le Grande Passion" and a painting by abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock titled "Springs Winter" - were taken from the museum's main gallery at about 2:30 a.m., a museum spokesman said. Scranton police were notified minutes after the thieves tripped the museum’s motion sensors. The thieves appeared to have been aided by a large tent covering the museum’s back entrance for an event, said FBI investigators and Scranton police. The burglars broke through a pair of doors to gain entry to the main gallery of the Everhart.
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Launch New Window Serial Killer Art Raises Free Speech Debate
An online auction of artwork by a serial sex killer triggered outrage in Massachusetts on Tuesday where lawmakers proposed to block criminals from profiting on what they called "murderabilia," setting off a debate on free speech rights of prisoners. A colored pencil sketch of Jesus Christ kneeling in a desert by Alfred Gaynor, a serial killer serving four life sentences for sodomizing and choking to death four women, went on sale on Tuesday on a Web site Gambling online Daftar Sbobet operated by a prisoner advocacy group. It was one of nearly 300 artworks offered for auction through December 18 on The Fortune Society's Web site. If sold, nearly all proceeds from the work entitled, "A Righteous Man's Reward," will go to Gaynor, the group said.
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