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UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008.
Monday, October 6
Topic: Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol stands in front of a limited edition serigraph of Princess Grace of Monaco to benefit the Institute of Contemporary Art here in Philadelphia on June 1, 1984. Jack Kelly (R) and his wife Sandra (L) join Warhol at the Institute. He is the brother of Grace Kelly. The ICA is celebrarting its 20th anniversary. It gave Warhol his first one-man show in 1965. (UPI Photo/George Bilyk/Files)
Andy Warhol is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:
Basquiat painting sold for $10M
LONDON, July 2 (UPI) -- A painting by late U.S. artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, which hung in the rock band U2's Dublin studio for years, has sold for a reported $10.4 million.
Man weeps over wounded Warhol print
NEW YORK, June 3 (UPI) -- The owner of an Andy Warhol silk screen reportedly wept in a New York court at the trial of the woman accused of stealing the rare work.
2 Picassos stolen from Fla. gallery
PALM BEACH, Fla., May 26 (UPI) -- Two paintings by famed artist Pablo Picasso, with a combined worth of about $450,000, have been snatched from a Florida art gallery, police said.
NASA's 50th birthday marked in art exhibit
WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- The Smithsonian Institution says it will honor the U.S. space agency's 50th birthday with a traveling art exhibition.
John Phillip Law, Hollywood actor, dies
LOS ANGELES, May 17 (UPI) -- John Phillip Law, who appeared opposite Jane Fonda in the 1968 science fiction fantasy "Barbarella," has died at age 70.
Graffiti intended to provoke awareness
PALERMO, Italy, May 9 (UPI) -- A graffiti mural of a mafia kingpin found on a cathedral in Palermo, Italy, was painted to encourage public awareness of organized crime, the artists say.
Roman sculpture star of stolen art exhibit
ROME, April 24 (UPI) -- An annual exhibit of stolen and recovered artworks that opened Thursday in Rome includes a Roman portrait sculpture missing for almost half a century.
Reputed crime boss portraits pop up
PALERMO, Italy, April 24 (UPI) -- Four graffiti portraits of escaped alleged crime boss Matteo Messina Denaro suddenly appeared on a cathedral wall in Palermo, Italy, police said.
Guess? Jeans co-founder seeking lost art
NEW YORK, April 6 (UPI) -- Guess? Jeans co-founder Georges Marciano has gone to court in New York as he tries to recover 300 pieces of missing art, court documents show.
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