ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Breaking News from the Art World
News Feed Search
Curator takes Walters' collection to the West Coast
Independent / January 28th, 2010
Delacroix to Monet: Masterpieces of 19th-Century Painting from the Walters Art Museum, opening at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) on January 30, is a staggeringly comprehensive view of Western art from 1795. Including more than French masterpieces, such as works by Asher Durand, Rembrandt ...
Christie's confident of a continuing art market recovery
Luxist / January 28th, 2010
Christie's, which is bringing some powerful inventory under the gavel at its contemporary art sale next month, expects the market to recover this year. With the improvement in conditions, price guarantees may return. In 2009, Christie's states, sales fell to 2.1 billion pounds, a decline of 24%. ...
'Journeys' - The Art of Betty Parsons
The Hamptons / January 28th, 2010
NYC's Spanierman Modern is opening, on Feb. 9, 'Journeys' - The Art of Betty Parsons. Parsons's career as a legendary art dealer, who represented many of the important avant-garde artists of the mid-20th century, has often overshadowed a consideration of her own art. A 48-pg. catalog, written by ...
In with the old
The Economist / January 27th, 2010
A year ago the Winter Antiques Show changed its definition of antique, from objects more than 100 years old to those made before 1960. Fortunately this allowed for the appearance this year of an eye-catching, whimsical chandelier from 1920, brought by Frank & Barbara Pollack. The piece ...
Winter Antiques Show simmers on through Jan. 31
Artnet / January 27th, 2010
In a Winter Antiques Show overview, writer Brook S. Mason declares Hirschl & Adler's stand---centered on paintings by Rembrandt Peale and Benjamin West---as 'best in show.' American art has sold well overall, including a lovely Mary Cassatt portrait of a girl (shown), whisked away from ...
Ammi Phillips double portrait blasts past estimate
Antiques and the Arts / January 27th, 2010
A rare double portrait by Ammi Phillips reached $782,500 (with buyer's premium) at Christie's auction of important folk art on January 22 in New York. A direct descendent of the sitters consigned "Double Portrait of Theron Simpson Ludington (1850–1922) and His Older Sister Virginia Ludington ...
Art museums make Super Bowl bet
Wall Street Journal / January 27th, 2010
Two directors from Super Bowl contender city art museums–the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art–are getting in on the Big Game by wagering major art loans on the outcome of the Saints-Colts matchup. If the Colts win, IMA will get a three-month loan of NoMA’s 1644 ...
The Art of Wayne Thiebaud: America’s vox populi
Stark Silver Creek / January 26th, 2010
The retrospective exhibition "Wayne Thiebaud: Seventy Years of Painting," on view February 16 through July 4, 2010, at California's San Jose Museum of Art, presents 103 paintings and drawings that are a slice of Americana. Many of Thiebaud's distinctive, lusciously painted still-lifes of ...
Must-see: Hudson River School splendor reinstalled in Hartford
Wall Street Journal / January 26th, 2010
The majestic landscape paintings of the 19th-century Hudson River School include symbolic images of the wilderness painted while America pursued its "manifest destiny" to expand westward. After a renovation of its Huntington Galleries, Connecticut's Wadsworth Atheneum is displaying its knock-out ...
Carlos Slim's shimmering new art palace
Bloomberg / January 26th, 2010
Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim, whose estimated net worth of $59 billion makes him one of the world's richest people, is making waves with a bold new art museum planned in Mexico City. His art collection of 66,000 pieces, from 15th-c. European masters to a bounty of Rodin ...
The American Antiques Show delivers on the unique
Shelter Pop / January 26th, 2010
Last weekend, New York's The American Antiques Show offered up some folk art gems, including an exquisite and very rare "sun burst" American quilt from about 1830 at the booth of Massachusetts dealer Colette Donovan. Boston dealer Stephen Score had a fanciful birdcage, c. 1840, in ...
Eli Broad's new museum may be in Downtown L.A.
Blog Downtown / January 25th, 2010
First reported to be headed to Beverly Hills, the planned Broad Art Museum has also been linked to Santa Monica and other sites. Now Downtown may be the location--on a parcel adjacent to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, across Grand Avenue from MOCA, the institution that ...
Crackdown on sarcophagus smugglers
Bloomberg / January 25th, 2010
Cyprus police arrested smugglers trying to sell antiquities stolen from the east Mediterranean island. The illicit trade in antiquities is “a real issue” in Cyprus and the country is examining ways to protect artifacts, including upgrading security at museums and archaeological sites. ...
Christie's to sell huge, Hearst-owned Old Master painting
Luxist / January 25th, 2010
On Jan. 27, Christie's New York will offer Le Pont Sur Le Torrent, painted in the mid-1780s by Hubert Robert, measuring over 20 feet wide by 13 feet high, with an estimate of $2 million - $3 million. Originally commissioned by the Duc de Luynes for the dining room of his mansion in Paris, in ...
Visitor tears Picasso at the Met
Christian Science Monitor / January 25th, 2010
Last Friday, a visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art lost her balance and fell into Pablo Picasso's "The Actor," a nearly 6-foot tall painting valued at over $130 million. Immediately, the museum whisked the dented and torn painting away to the conservation dept. to assess ...
Critic's picks: LA Art Show
Los Angeles Times / January 24th, 2010
Here's what caught the eye of the LA Times' art critic: A mustard-colored 1968 Minimalist abstraction by Robert Mangold (Gana Gallery); "Clivia," probably from the 1930s, by Henrietta Shore (1880 - 1963) of crisply painted pink blossoms, severed from any context other than art (Redfern ...
Winter Antiques Show sizzles with fast sales
Bloomberg / January 24th, 2010
Battered stock markets be damned! Judging from the buzz and sales last Thursday at the opening night of the 56th Winter Antiques Show, the antiques buyers are back Just ask Barbara Israel. In the first half-hour of the upscale art fair, the New York-based dealer who specializes in ...
Jumbo-sized bowl sets American silver record at Sotheby's
Boston Globe / January 24th, 2010
A Colonial-era silver bowl that was hidden in Boston before the Revolutionary War and then languished in England for 230 years sold last week for an astounding $5.9 million. The bowl had been owned by Joshua Loring, a Tory who fled Boston in 1774 when harassment by colonials became ...
Disputed Van Gogh valued at up to $150 million
Canadian Press / January 24th, 2010
A Van Gogh painting at the centre of a dispute between Yale University and a man who believes the artwork was stolen from his family during the Russian Revolution is worth $120 million to $150 million, the man's attorney told The Associated Press on Friday. The evaluation is the first public ...
Well-behaved potters a focus at the New York Ceramics Fair
New York Times / January 21st, 2010
Moravian potters in North Carolina during the 1700s could not misbehave on the job without their stern, German-speaking leaders transcribing detailed minutes of their meetings, discussing those who complained or disobeyed church rules. At the New York Ceramics Fair, a loan ...