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Art Dealer to Actress: You Baroque My Reputation
TMZ / August 21st, 2009
Actress Claire Forlani is accused of wielding a pen that is indeed mightier than the sword ... and killing the reputation of an art dealer in the process. The former "CSI NY" star is being sued for allegedly crushing the "fragile and intangible" reputation of art dealer Paul Rusconi in a mass ...
Nude Jackie O. photo found in Warhol's stuff
Aol News / August 20th, 2009
A cardboard lid is lifted and four archivists peer inside. A piece of crusty wedding cake. Whose? Another box: $17,000 in cash. Yet another: An autographed picture of a naked Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. These are some of the many items workers have uncovered as they sift through 610 cardboard ...
Alice Walton appoints new director of Crystal Bridges
LA Times Arts / August 17th, 2009
Currently director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, Don Bacigalupi will take charge of the fledgling American art museum in late October.
New Orleans Auction Galleries serves up Southern estates
Auction Central News / August 5th, 2009
Summer heat and humidity in the Crescent City hasn't stopped New Orleans Auction Galleries Inc. from putting together an August sale that will have auction-goers wiping their brows as bidding intensifies. The auction Aug. 8-9 will feature art, antiques and curios from numerous Southern estates ...
Sporting Art, Decoys take in $4.15 million at Copley's Auction
Antiques & the Arts / August 5th, 2009
PLYMOUTH, MASS. - Copley Fine Art Auction's July 15 to 16 sale grossed an impressive $4,158,929; even more impressive is the fact that $1.8 million of that total came from the six of the seven Crowell decoys from the Long collection...
What they painted on the summer vacations
Boston Globe / August 4th, 2009
PORTLAND, Maine - Breezy and to the point, “Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England’’ is an ideal, if flawed, summer exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art. Ideal, because a century ago, painters flocked to New England shores each summer...
Book reveals Jasper Johns, the Jokester
UnBeige Mediabistro / August 3rd, 2009
Artist Jasper Johns tends to confront cameras with an expression of steely bemusement that stops just short of a glower. But don't mistake Johns's intensity for humorlessness, notes James Rosenquist in his memoir, Painting Below Zero, due out in October from Knopf...
Winterthur Museum Benefits From the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Construction
Washington Post / July 25th, 2009
WINTERTHUR, Del. -- Among the rolling hills of Delaware's Chateau Country, a group of guests from Manhattan is being welcomed with open arms at the Winterthur Museum.