[CPProt.net] The National Gallery reports a 46% drop in attendance in the immediate aftermath of the London bombings

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Fron News: 

Drastic decline in museum visits after London terror attacks

The National Gallery reports a 46% drop in attendance in the immediate
aftermath of the bombings- By Martin Bailey 


The events of 7 and 21 July had an immediate and drastic impact on visitor
numbers at London’s museums and galleries. In the aftermath, foreign
tourists were reluctant to book a London holiday, British visitors from
outside the capital were discouraged from coming both out of anxiety and the
short-term transport chaos, and Londoners... 
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>From News: 

Earl of Halifax rejects £55 million for Titian portrait


The Earl, who is deputy chairman of Christie’s, will try his luck at auction
but no work has ever made this much at a public sale- By Martin Bailey 


LONDON. The Art Newspaper can reveal that the National Gallery has offered
the Earl of Halifax the equivalent of £55 million for his Titian Portrait of
a young man, after tax benefits are taken into account. This represents a
larger sum than any work of art has ever fetched in a public sale. The
auction record is the £49.5 million paid by Lord Thomson at Sotheby’s... 
go to article <http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11862> 



>From News: 

Saatchi to sell Chapmans


Charles Saatchi is to sell his collection of art by Jake and Dinos Chapman.
The Art Newspaper understands that the artists’ gallery, White Cube, has
made an offer to Mr Saatchi for the works which include the Chapman Family
Collection, a group of sculptures... 
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>From Features: 

“Our hunger for Goya has not waned but our horizon has widened”


On the eve of the Chapmans’ first commercial show in three years, Jake
Chapman talks to The Art Newspaper- By Louisa Buck 


After their one-time employers Gilbert & George, Jake and Dinos Chapman are
probably the art world’s best-known double act. They started working
together in 1992, and from their earliest miniature model re-makes of Goya’s
Disasters of war, their life-sized genitally misplaced mannequins, their
parodies of African and Oceanic sculpture and the epic Hell, their
scaled-down scenes of Armageddon... 
go to article <http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11860> 



>From Editorial and Commentary: 

Entirely new ways are needed to promote the arts


- By Andras Szanto 


A standing-room only audience crammed itself into a lecture hall at Columbia
University on a crisp, sunny morning last May for a symposium titled
“Measuring the Muse”. The conference was co-hosted by the National Arts
Journalism Program (NAJP), which I ran at the time, and the Alliance for the
Arts, a research and advocacy group which serves New York’s cultural
community. The subject was... 
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