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Americana Week begins on a high note
Financial Times / January 21st, 2010
In New York, Americana week has kicked off with a Christie’s sale of American silver including 11 pieces being sold by a Beverly, Massachusetts, church in order to fix its roof: among them was a monumental ewer, by the silversmith and patriot Paul Revere, which realized $206,500. The Winter ...
NY antique shows add more 20th-century fare
The Magazine Antiques / January 21st, 2010
New exhibitors are making their marks in the venerable line-ups of major shows this weekend. At the 56th annual Winter Antiques Show, six new exhibitors have joined the ranks, including 20th century decorative arts specialists Liz O'Brien and Lost City Arts. The American Folk Art Museum's The ...
Snowflake images dazzle at The American Antiques Show
Canadian Press / January 21st, 2010
Photographs by the first person to capture the image of a single snowflake with a camera are up for sale in New York, at The American Antiques Show, presented by the American Folk Art Museum, through Sunday. Wilson A. Bentley, a Vermont farmer, used ground-breaking ...
Highlights: Los Angeles Art Show 2010
ARTFIXdaily / January 20th, 2010
FADA's Los Angeles Art Show opened last night between raging rainstorms with over 110 international galleries offering about 15,000 works of art, from photography and paintings to video and sculpture. The impressive display, at the enormous Los Angeles Convention Center, is on view through ...
In Washington D.C., noteworthy exhibitions to enliven winter days
Washington Examiner / January 20th, 2010
Sure to have wide appeal, the Corcoran presents "Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davis Collection" and National Gallery of Art opens "From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection," which includes Modigliani's 1919 "Gypsy Woman with Baby." The Phillips Collection will show ...
London antiques dealer closing shop
Luxist / January 20th, 2010
One of London's major antiques dealerships, Sampson and Horne Antiques has announced that they are closing and their entire trading stock will be sold at Bonhams on April 28. The company is closing because one of the founders, Jonathan Horne, is ill and the other partner, Christopher Banks, has ...
Gardner's $118 million new wing plans revealed
Boston / January 20th, 2010
Today, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will unveil the design for an ambitious $118 million expansion created by Italian architect Renzo Piano, a new glass and copper-clad wing that will fundamentally change the way visitors experience the museum. The project, expected to be completed in ...
Lucien Freud self-portrait re-emerges after 3 decades
Guardian / January 20th, 2010
Lucien Freud's reaction to a nasty altercation with a taxi driver was to get his rather impressive black eye down on canvas. Self-Portrait With a Black Eye, has been largely unknown to the art world for the past 30 years. It has never been recorded in published literature on Freud and never ...
Jewelry, silver seen as 'safe haven' for investors
Cambridge News / January 19th, 2010
Prices in the arts and antiques market continue to rise with silver and jewellery leading the way, while contemporary art came back into favour following a year of price falls, says the latest survey from the U.K.'s RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors). For lots over £50k, the top ...
Billionaire Abramovich buoys contemporary art market
Bloomberg / January 19th, 2010
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought 35 contemporary artworks for his luxury yacht, “Eclipse,” according to the Millennium gallery in southwest England. While his recent purchases have tallied 200,000 pounds ($326,000), Abramovich is known to have spent much more for Francis Bacon’s 1976 ...
Must-sees during Americana Week 2010
Maine Antique Digest / January 19th, 2010
Maine Antique Digest's Lita Solis-Cohen has compiled a list of the top museum, gallery, show, and auction events to attend from Janaury 19-31 in New York City. From the Historic New England loan exhibit at the Winter Antiques Show to "Modeling Grace: Two Centuries of American Sculpture" at ...
De Pury will helm new reality TV show on artists
Reality TV World / January 19th, 2010
Bravo has revealed the hosts and judging panel for Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, a new Project Runway-like reality competition series for aspiring artists that is being produced by Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker. Art enthusiast China Chow and auctioneer Simon de Pury will be ...
Highlights: photo l.a. 2010
ARTFIXdaily / January 18th, 2010
The 19th annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, considered to be the foremost event of its kind in the U.S., opened to enthusiastic crowds in Santa Monica, Calif., on January 14. From provocative to pretty, images at photo l.a. encompassed popular black-and-whites by Henri ...
Treasure trove of paintings revealed in Bucks County
The Reporter / January 18th, 2010
The castle-like Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Penn., which is fundraising for a $12 million expansion, offers an eyeful from its collection of paintings in the exhibit "Three Centuries of Bucks County Art and Artists." Usually held in "open storage," the seldom-seen cache now on display includes ...
Choice lots for Philly-philes at Americana Week auctions
Philadelphia Inquirer / January 18th, 2010
Four Chinese export pieces made for Society of the Cincinnati members, including a plate ordered for George Washington, with an estimated value of $30,000 to $50,000, are sure to be hotly contested at Sotheby's Jan. 23 sale of Pennsylvanian Elinor Gordon's collection. Americana Week in New York ...
Can collectors have their art and lend it, too?
NPR / January 18th, 2010
Late Gap founder and art collector Don Fisher wanted to build his own museum, rather than give his collection to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), but two days before he died last September, the Fishers decided to lend their collection to SFMOMA for 25 years. A growing trend to ...
Early O'Keeffe painting emerges from Cape Cod collection
Cape Cod Times / January 18th, 2010
A valuable early painting by Georgia O'Keeffe will be auctioned this month after art experts solved the mystery of where it has been since 1924. For most of the time, it was in a private collection on Cape Cod. The artist's "Alligator Pear in White Dish," painted in 1921, is expected to sell for ...
Museums and lawmakers discuss regulation of art sales
NY Times / January 17th, 2010
Members of the New York State Legislature have been trying to draft a bill that would regulate deaccessioning of artworks and artifacts. On Thursday legislators and representatives from museums in the New York City area came together to debate the proposed bill that would prohibit museums from ...
Massive Manship sculpture weighs in at Winter Antiques Show
NY Times Blog / January 17th, 2010
An enormous Tennessee marble vase was sent over Sat. to Manhattan's Park Avenue Armory in preparation for the upcoming Winter Antiques Show. Weighing 14,000 pounds, the pink piece was transferred by a moving team using a heavy duty rigging machine. The 9-foot-tall artwork “Urn” by American ...
"From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden" in Baltimore
Baltimore Sun / January 17th, 2010
At the height of the 1960s civil rights movement, when "an overwhelmingly white art world ... tended to regard blacks as a social abstraction" (in the typically sharp words of critic Robert Hughes), Romare Bearden helped open eyes and minds with works of striking communication, beauty and power. ...