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A fight to preserve Edward Hopper's landscape
Cape Cod Times / April 15th, 2010
A Massachusetts land court judge has ordered construction to cease on a large house that neighbors say spoils the Cape Cod coastline views that inspired American painter Edward Hopper. Property owners near the planned 8,333-sq.-ft. mansion, assessed at $4.5 million, instigated a lawsuit when ...
Deitch to debut at MOCA with Dennis Hopper
LA Times / April 15th, 2010
Former art dealer Jeffrey Deitch has enlisted painter-director Julian Schnabel to curate his first show as the incoming director at LA's Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition will be a survey of works by Dennis Hopper, the 73-year-old actor now stricken with cancer, who has had a long ...
Irving Penn photos sold-out at Christie's auction
Artinfo / April 15th, 2010
A large collection of photographs owned by Irving Penn’s assistant Patricia McCabe soared to $3.85 million this week, with 70 lots earning 100 percent sell-through rates by lot and by value, at Christie's in New York. The top lot of the collection was Penn's striking 1977 ...
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Entertainment Weekly / April 14th, 2010
"Prankishly enjoyable" says EW reviewer Owen Gleiberman of a new documentary called Exit Through the Gift Shop. He writes that the film, made by stealthy London street artist Banksy, "...is an exhilarating hall-of-mirrors look at what happens when global art fame turns anonymous, artists become ...
Dealers drop hints about Philadelphia show-stoppers
Main Line Media / April 14th, 2010
Philadelphia Antiques Show exhibitors are leaking a few of their booth highlights for the much-anticipated show which opens Friday night with a preview gala. New exhibitor Avery Galleries is bringing a large Emil Carlsen still-life painting and two Winslow Homer watercolors, valued between ...
High Museum holdings boosted by gift of French art
Atlanta Business Journal / April 14th, 2010
Atlanta's High Museum of Art will receive 47 works of art, dating from fin-de-siécle Paris, including prized examples by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin and Degas. One highlight of the gift, which is strong in French drawings and prints, is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's “La Clownesse au Moulin Rouge” ...
'Ansel Adams: Early Works' exhibit a circulating crowd-pleaser
/ April 14th, 2010
Ansel Adams once said, "Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter." This quote belies the fact that Adams hiked in the wilderness for days in search of scenery and labored in the darkroom day and night to yield "a good crop" of about one dozen ...
Artnet pushes for profits in online auctions
Skate's Market Notes / April 13th, 2010
After reviewing artnet's 2009 annual report, Skate's remains skeptical of the company's online auction strategy as a revenue source. Revenues, which are largely based on its price database, advertising and a gallery network, were down 5.6% compared to 2008 due to the auction segment. ...
Buzzworthy Americana at Philadelphia Antiques Show, Apr. 17-20
Phillyburbs.com / April 13th, 2010
Exhibitor Todd Prickett, of C.L. Prickett, will showcase a "phenomenal" tall case clock made by Matthew Egerton. Prickett says, "It's the finest form, and...original feet, original surface."
Marc Glimcher sees branding, networking as future for art dealers
Artinfo / April 13th, 2010
In the age of globalization, “What does it mean to be an art gallery?” The Pace Gallery's Marc Glimcher tells Artinfo: "The answer for a lot of innovative people, has been a franchise, a brand. That has been incredibly successful...." Click through to read more of Artinfo's conversation with ...
Steven Spielberg's art dealer exonerated in lawsuit over stolen Norman Rockwell
RFT blogs / April 13th, 2010
Rhode Island-based Judy Goffman Cutler is now free from a costly and drawn-out legal battle over a Norman Rockwell painting titled Russian Schoolroom that was stolen from a St. Louis art gallery back in 1973. Cutler, who is a well-known specialist in American illustration art, had bought the ...
Bank removes art from Berry-Hill Galleries
DNA Info / April 12th, 2010
Handlers took away artwork by renowned American painters from Berry-Hill Galleries last Tuesday after its owners defaulted on a $9.5 million loan, the Wall Street Journal reported. Boxes were carried out of the Upper East Side gallery with the names of artists H. Frishmuth, for Harriet Whitney ...
All eyes on Spring art auctions
Luxist / April 12th, 2010
The May and June sales at the major auction houses will be closely watched to see if the art market is truly rebounding from the credit crisis-induced slump. Following the winter surprise of the record-smashing $104.3 million Giacometti price, hopes are high for strong sales of important ...
Oakland Museum interprets the California experience in art
San Francisco Chronicle / April 12th, 2010
To better engage its visitors, California's Oakland Museum of Art has mixed up the traditional manner of art display, replacing chronological order with high-interest thematic groupings. Re-opening May 1 after a two-year renovation, the museum, for example, has a California landscape section ...
Peony blossom paintings rich in symbolism
Korea Times / April 12th, 2010
A massive, 10-panel Korean screen, probably late 18th-century, is rare for its continuously painted band of peonies in full bloom. The screen is part of an exhibition at the National Museum of Korea on now through June 20. The exhibition also features nine other peony-patterned paintings from ...
Crusader sword, "Lockheed Lounge" coming to auction
Financial Times / April 11th, 2010
Islamic art is on the block in a series of London auctions this week. Among the highlights, Christie's is offering a circa-1400 Crusader sword with an estimate of £150,000-£200,000. FT writer Georgina Adam also notes that the financial troubles of CNET founder Halsey Minor has pushed to market ...
Warhol's pretty Polaroids on view
San Jose Mercury News / April 11th, 2010
The new exhibit "Andy Warhol's Quick Pix and Pop Icons," at the Hearst Art Gallery at Saint Mary's College of California, suggests, there's still much to discover about Warhol and his art. Beyond some of his brash and commercial screen prints, "Warhol was also capable of great artistic ...
Cartier-Bresson photographs are a 20th-century 'world diary'
Reuters / April 11th, 2010
From portraits of modern artists to scenes of everyday life, "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century" includes about 300 powerful photographs, the majority on loan from the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. The exhibit, which opened at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on Sunday, is ...
Whitney Museum board debates move downtown
New York Times / April 11th, 2010
When the cosmetics heir Leonard A. Lauder gave $131 million to the Whitney Museum of American Art two years ago, it was the biggest donation in the institution’s history, and it came with one important stipulation: The Whitney could not sell its popular but cramped home on Madison Avenue in ...
Sarah Jessica Parker inks deal for art world reality show
New York magazine / April 8th, 2010
Gallerists Bill Powers and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, auctioneer Simon de Pury, art enthusiast China Chow, and New York art critic Jerry Saltz are signed-on as judges in actress Sarah Jessica Parker's production of a new reality TV show, 'Work of Art.' The Bravo series, which debuts June 9, ...