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"Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School"
Daily Mail / May 6th, 2010
“It is important to recast 19th century American women landscape painters no longer as the exception… but rather as exceptional,” says Nancy Siegel, a co-curator of a new exhibiton at Cedar Grove: The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, in Catskill, New York. Jennifer Krieger, managing partner ...
America's oldest hostelry hosts new antiques show
Community Advocate / May 6th, 2010
Longfellow's Wayside Inn in historic Sudbury, Mass., is holding its inaugural Antiques Show May 14 through 16. Nearly 50 premier antiques dealers from around the country will offer American art, American and European furniture, ceramics, silver, books, jewelry, folk art and more. American ...
$4 million Monet donated to Canadian museum
CBC News / May 6th, 2010
A Claude Monet painting depicting dramatic rock formations on the coast of Normandy has joined the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, reports CBC News. Montreal arts patron, collector and philanthropist Marjorie Bronfman has given Rock Needle seen through the ...
Bid-less Indonesian auction folds
BBC / May 5th, 2010
No bidders registered for an Indonesian auction of more than 270,000 treasures recovered from a 10th-century Chinese shipwreck. A $16 million deposit was required of bidders. The sale was only announced one week ago. The auction included mostly ceramics as well as some delicate jewel-studded ...
$150 million expansion illuminates VMFA collections
Daily Press / May 5th, 2010
The venerable Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has added 165,000-square-feet in order to properly display its immense holdings. Emerging from the vaults to new galleries will be the museum's Pre-Colombian and Native American collections. Permanent collection galleries will increase 50% in ...
Chinese Imperial jade elephants may stack up to $3 million
Bloomberg / May 5th, 2010
Chinese collectors are expected to bid as much as 2 million pounds ($3.03 million) for a pair of 18th-century green jade elephants which originally adorned a throne room of the Emperor Qianlong. The pair is being offered by the British auction house Woolley & Wallis on May 19 with an ...
Magritte monograph back in print
Luxist / May 5th, 2010
A new edition of Magritte, the masterful monograph on Rene Magritte by the late David Sylvester, an expert on the great Surrealist, will be republished by Abrams / Fonds Mercator after a decade of being out-of-print. Michel Draguet, director of the new Magritte Museum in Brussels, has updated ...
Turner Prize Shortlist 2010
Telegraph / May 4th, 2010
Less controversial, more beautiful is the overall consensus on the output of this year's artists shortlisted for Britain's most prestigious contemporary art prize. The Turner Prize, begun 26 years ago, was once a headline-grabbing event starring sensational artwork that sparked widespread ...
Picasso scores world record art price
Bloomberg / May 4th, 2010
Pablo Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” garnered $106.5 million Tuesday night at Christie’s International in New York, the highest amount ever paid for an artwork at auction. The coveted painting, from a series of Picasso's mistress Marie-Therese Walter, usurped the $104.2 million record ...
“American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity"
New York Times / May 4th, 2010
About 725 elegantly-attired guests attended the star-studded gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night for the Costume Institute exhibition “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity.” This year’s exhibition, organized by curator Andrew Bolton, looked at styles between 1890 ...
Keno Auctions debuts with record-smashing Chippendale chest
Antiques and the Arts / May 4th, 2010
A record price for New York furniture was set at Leigh Keno's inaugral auction last weekend. The James Beekman Chippendale carved mahogany chest of drawers from the shop of Thomas Brookman, with carving attributed to Henry Hardcastle, circa 1752, estimated at $200/600,000, sold for ...
Saudi artists set to soar with King Abdullah backing
Bloomberg / May 3rd, 2010
Saudi art, still little known outside the desert kingdom, is starting to get international attention after a group of artists exhibited in London in October 2008 and at last year’s Venice Biennale. The government-supported drive to promote Saudi artists on the global stage, part of a strategy ...
May madness art sales begin
Wall Street Journal / May 3rd, 2010
The media has widely reported that an art market rebound is in the cards this May when Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips de Pury hold their major Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions in New York. Beginning today, a two-week series of sales at these three auction houses alone ...
“Robert Vonnoh, American Impressionist”
Vindy / May 3rd, 2010
A vibrant oil-on-canvas painted by Robert W. Vonnoh (1858-1933), widely considered one of the pioneers of American Impressionism, is the centerpiece of a traveling exhibition. “In Flanders Field, Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow,” evokes innocence, with a young woman in the foreground ...
A-list office art in Iowa exhibition
Des Moines Register / May 3rd, 2010
Since the 1960s, the John Deere Company has decked out their Eero Saarinen-designed headquarters in Moline, Ill., with works by international A-listers such as Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Marc Chagall and the Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz. Their focus expanded to include a wide swath of ...
The making of a New York treasure house
New York Times / April 30th, 2010
Among the sumptuous personal art galleries built in Gilded Age New York, tycoon Henry Clay Frick's Upper East Side mansion remains today as a temple of high art. Converted from a private home to a public museum after his death in 1931, the Frick's main gallery alone displays Rembrandt, El Greco, ...
Oakland Museum of California reopens
LA Times blog / April 30th, 2010
Closed 28 months ago for a $58-million renovation and reinstallation, the Oakland Museum of California reopened its art and history galleries Saturday. The museum is an ode to California and its "People," "Landscape" and "Creativity." The first room opens to Thomas Hill's monumental painting, ...
Rare Guercino acquired by Kimbell Art Museum
DFW.com / April 30th, 2010
In memory of Edmund P. Pillsbury, director of the Kimbell Art Museum from 1980 to 1998, a 17th-century Italian baroque jewel has been added to the museum's collection. "Christ and the Woman of Samaria", c. 1619-20, by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, is a rare early work with a ...
"Claude Monet: Late Work" at Gagosian in New York
Bloomberg / April 30th, 2010
Twenty-seven masterpieces in “Claude Monet: Late Work,” which opened Saturday, include spellbinding works created in Giverny between 1892 and 1926, now on view in the heart of Chelsea's contemporary art scene. Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen's 1906 water-lilies painting by the great French ...
More green shoots expected at blue-chip art sales
Luxist / April 29th, 2010
An art market barometer reading will be taken May 4 and 5 when the Impressionist and Modern Art sales are in full swing in New York. The return of minimum price guarantees has helped push top-tier works of art back to market. Among the offerings is the Mrs. Sidney Francis ...