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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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 | Penchant for Trucks: Renowned antique toy collection goes to auction
ABC News - September 21st, 2009 18:03
Donald Kaufman, whose family founded the chainstore KB Toys, is parting with his 7,000-item antique toy collection in a series of auctions. The first auction of 1,400 toys garnered $4.2 million. The next sale will be held by Bertoia Auctions in Vineland, New Jersey, on Sept. 25 and 26. "To me, toys are like art. Each one is like a valuable painting," Kaufman says. Pre-1965 transportation toys form the bulk of his collection, from tow trucks to taxi cabs, airplanes to Greyhound ...Read more | |
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 | Grand Rivals: JMW Turner versus the masters at Tate Britain
Guardian - September 21st, 2009 11:29
LONDON - Preview 'Turner and the Masters,' a major new show that places paintings by JMW Turner alongside the masterpieces that inspired them. Turner repeatedly pitted himself directly against both the old masters and his contemporaries, including Titian, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau and Veronese – and Constable. The chippiest genius in British art history, Turner was not going to be bested by any other artist, alive or dead.
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 | Old is New Again: Vintage fashion brightens up U.K.'s 'Antiques Roadshow'
Daily Mail - September 21st, 2009 18:12
Posing in a brightly-coloured dress, Fiona Bruce could be on any magazine shoot. Except that she is wearing a vintage Pucci dress and claiming that 1970s outfits are now 'antiques'. The Antiques Roadshow presenter has revealed that the BBC show is broadening the idea of antique to include your parents' old clothes.
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 | Cashing in on Celebrity: Ebay sellers part with Kennedy's artwork
Cape Cod Times 1 - September 21st, 2009 12:42
HYANNIS, MASS. – In the few weeks since his death, paintings and prints by Senator Edward M. Kennedy have increased in value – not quite to the point of, say, an undiscovered Picasso, but enough that a few people put them up for sale on eBay and have gotten from just over $500 to more than $5,000...Read more | |
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