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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, September 25, 2009
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 | Brazen Daytime Heist: Armed robbers steal Magritte's painting of his wife
New York Times Art - September 24th, 2009 14:10
BRUSSELS (AP) - Two armed robbers in masks made off with a $1.1 million painting by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte in a morning heist at a small museum in the Belgian capital on Thursday. Brussels police say the two men escaped with the 1948 ''Olympia'' by car after holding museum staff and tourists at gunpoint. The nude image is believed to be inspired by Magritte's wife, Georgette. The painting hung at Magritte's former house, now a small museum, separate from the ...Read more | |
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 | Museum Sleep-over: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater now open to overnight guests
Reuters - September 24th, 2009 18:21
MILL RUN, Penn. - Fans of Frank Lloyd Wright's house Fallingwater have long been able to visit the architect's modernist masterpiece as a museum, but soon they can enjoy the house almost as if they were living in it. A new Insight Onsite program allows guests to lounge about reading, enjoy a lively dinner party, and stay overnight. This more intimate experience with the historic home comes with a price -- $1,195.Read more | |
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 | Asian Art Week: New Chinese buyers, import restrictions jiggle the market
Wall Street Journal - September 24th, 2009 17:02
NEW YORK - Asian Art Week, amid the most entrenched art-market recession in nearly two decades, saw many auction prices go through the roof while other sales languished with 40% unsold lots. Together, Christie's and Sotheby's raised about $56 million, high above expectations. Works from the Sackler collection soared, including a 12th-century B.C. bronze vessel, estimated at about $25,000, which sold for $362,500 at Christie's where 70% of works went to Asian bidders. Read more | |
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 | Aeronautic History Gem: October 8-9 auction of Amelia Earhart's goggles
Aircraft Maintenance Technology - September 24th, 2009 18:03
CALABASAS, CALIF. - Profiles in History, a leading auctioneer of Hollywood memorabilia, has landed Amelia Earhart's original flight goggles worn during her historic 1932 record-breaking solo transatlantic flight. The goggles, estimated at $100,000-$150,000, were worn when she set several aeronautic records: the first person to cross the Atlantic twice, first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic, and the fastest transatlantic flight-beating Lindbergh by 18 hours.Read more | |
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