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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, September 24, 2009
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 | From Thomas Hart Benton to Tiffany Studios: Cottone's Sept. 26 auction offers fresh-to-market goodies
RocNow - September 23rd, 2009 17:04
GENESEO, N.Y. - Off the beaten track, Cottone’s is dubbed the Christie’s of cow country. The upstate New York firm is known to yield treasures long tucked away in local houses — recently, a Remington bronze brought $600,000 and a Tiffany lamp garnered $90,000. Highlights in next Saturday's auction include Arts & Crafts, Americana, a rare Tiffany chandelier, and paintings by Julien Dupre, Severin Roesen, Thomas Hart Benton, Walter Launt Palmer, Emile Gruppe, and more...Read more | |
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 | Illusions & Allusions: Art scholars, public love Duchamp's enigmatic, unforgettable diorama
Wall Street Journal - September 23rd, 2009 18:30
PHILADELPHIA - Famous for making artwork out of a mass-produced urinal, artist Marcel Duchamp also created the lesser-known, more mysterious "Étant Donnés," now the object of a fascinating, scholarly show. Organized by Michael Taylor at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition documents the assemblage that secretly occupied Duchamp for his last 20 years. The hallucinations within "Étant Donnés" can be viewed only through two peepholes ...Read more | |
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 | Taste for the Imaginary: Ancient Roman homeowners liked a touch of fantasy in their frescoes
The Associated Press - September 23rd, 2009 18:47
ROME — Frescoes that once adorned Roman villas are going on display in a new exhibit that shows the tastes of ancient Rome's wealthy through landscapes and the representation of gods and goddesses. The exhibit "Roman Imperial Painting," which opens today, is at the Scuderie del Quirinale, a museum fashioned from the stables of Rome's Quirinal Palace, and runs through January 17. "Roman homes were highly decorated, the walls were like a theater scene," curator ...Read more | |
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 | Today at Bloomsbury Auctions: Quirky, intruiging celebrity self-portraiture for sale
Artinfo - September 23rd, 2009 11:21
NEW YORK—A self-portrait collection assembled without spending a single dollar will be sold off at Bloomsbury Auctions on Sept. 24. The house estimates that the sale — which includes pieces by artists Jamie Wyeth, David Hockney, and Robert Motherwell as well as names like Maya Angelou, Muhammed Ali, and Gloria Steinem — could bring in a total of $500,000. The sketches belong to Burt Britton, a former bartender at downtown jazz club the Village Vanguard, who invited visiting ...Read more | |
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