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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, January 07, 2010
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 | PREVIEW: From the Gothic Tradition to the Early Renaissance
ARTFIXdaily - January 6th, 2010 21:14
Moretti Fine Art will stage their third US exhibition, entitled From the Gothic Tradition to the Early Renaissance, at their gallery at 24 East 80th Street, New York, from 19 January to 12 February 2010. Some twenty works will not only reveal the richness of gold-ground and panel painting, but also draw attention to the works of great early Italian masters who have been hitherto underappreciated.Read more | |
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 | Kenneth Noland, Color-field painter, passes away
LA Times Blogs - January 6th, 2010 18:53
Kenneth Noland, whose groundbreaking Color-field paintings explored the richness of color while hewing to basic shapes such as concentric circles, chevrons, diamonds and stripes, has died at 85. His wife, Paige Rense, told the New York Times that the North Carolina-born artist died Tuesday of cancer, at home in Port Clyde, Maine. Rense is the editor in chief of Architectural Digest magazine.Read more | |
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 | Laptop designer named as head of Cooper-Hewitt museum
Washington Post - January 6th, 2010 19:01
Bill Moggridge, a leading industrial designer who is credited with designing the first laptop computer, was named Wednesday to lead the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Moggridge, 66, takes over the New York institution, which is part of the Smithsonian, at a critical time. The Cooper-Hewitt is in the midst of a major transition, one that promises to change both its focus and physical surroundings.Read more | |
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 | A rare British ocean liner model for maritime history buffs
Luxist - January 6th, 2010 19:41
A massive, rare model of a famed World War I British ocean liner-turned-battle cruiser has been listed for sale at $175,000. The 640 ft. HMS Alcantara was built by Harland & Wolff of Belfast for Royal Mail Lines and launched in October 1913. She was sunk by the German armed merchant cruiser SMS Greif in 1916 in the North Sea. Daniels Antiques of Miami is now offering a 14-ft. long model of the ship made in the 1920s in its original mahogany display case...,Read more | |
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