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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, October 07, 2009
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 | Off View: Steven Spielberg-owned Norman Rockwell in hiding
LA Times - October 6th, 2009 19:03
More than 20 Norman Rockwell paintings belonging to Steven Spielberg will be hung in a special exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington -- along with more than 30 other Rockwells from the collection of his fellow filmmaker-to-the-masses, George Lucas. And then there's the controversial "Russian Schoolroom," a Rockwell once owned by Spielberg, now sequestered in Las Vegas because of an ongoing, mystery film-worthy sequence of events...Read more | |
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 | "Ridiculous Waste": Architect Robert Venturi blasts Barnes' move
LA Times - October 6th, 2009 18:50
Robert Venturi, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect and lifelong resident of Philadelphia, has written a stinging letter in opposition to a controversial plan to dismantle the suburban Barnes Foundation and relocate its unparalleled collection of postimpressionist and early Modern art from its specially designed 1925 building to a new, tourist-friendly structure near downtown.Read more | |
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 | London News: Richard Green makes a stand on Bond Street
Telegraph - October 6th, 2009 18:21
LONDON - The old names of Bond Street have taken a pounding over the last year. But although Agnew’s may have moved out, and Partridge closed down, at 32 and 33 New Bond Street, painting purveyor Richard Green is expanding with grand plans for the entire building. On view will be Old Masters and modern art such as this bright bouquet by Scottish Colourist Samuel John Peploe which Green bought for £421,250 at Sotheby's Scottish sale...Read more | |
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 | Collectibles Craze: Auction stars Amelia Earhart, Michael Jackson memorabilia
Bloomberg - October 6th, 2009 17:25
CALABASAS, CA. - Amelia Earhart’s goggles, Michael Jackson’s illuminated glove and “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry’s Apple computer headline an auction Oct. 8-9 of more than 1,000 items of Hollywood and historical memorabilia. Profiles in History, a Calabasas, California- based auctioneer, expects the goggles to sell for $100,000 to $150,000, the glove for $60,000 to $80,000, and Roddenberry’s computer for $800 to $1,200.Read more | |
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