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OCMA's quiet sale of 18 paintings raises hackles
LA Times Arts / July 5th, 2009
The sale of the California Impressionist paintings to a private collector is seen as a snub to some in art circles. The Orange County Museum of Art was tooling along, a sporty little contender in the contemporary art world, its reputation sparkling from the good reviews ...
Museum Hosts an Enterprising Auction
The Detroit News / July 2nd, 2009
In an unprecedented move to cope with a bad economy, the Detroit Institute of Arts is sponsoring an art auction to raise money for its operations. No, the museum's not selling off any of its treasures. Rather, it's inviting the public to contribute pieces of art valued at more than $250 that ...
Presitigious Grosvenor House Fair to Close
Bloomberg / July 2nd, 2009
The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, the most prestigious of the U.K.’s traditional antiques events, is to close, having celebrated its 75th anniversary this year, the British Antique Dealers’ Association said today in an e-mailed statement. The latest edition of the week-long event, ...
Contemporary Art Sales Pick up a Pace
ArtInfo / July 2nd, 2009
LONDON—Christie’s finished out the London evening-auction season with a reassuring sale of postwar and contemporary art that realized £19,063,350 ($31,778,604). That compares to pre-sale expectations of £17.4–24 million for the 40 lots offered, of which all but five sold, for an impressive sold ...
Top-Dollar Bird Decoys Making News
NECN / June 30th, 2009
(NECN) - A big auction is coming up this month in Plymouth, Massachusetts, for duck decoys, among other items! Some of the most prized decoys are from a Massachusetts man's collection that were carved in the early 1900's and have never before been put on the market. Joining Good Morning Live ...
The High Life - Art Collecters in the Rockies
Artinfo / June 30th, 2009
Bob and Nancy Magoon have cultivated an eye-popping collection of contemporary art in their Rocky Mountain residence. In a corner of Bob and Nancy Magoon’s expansive living room in Aspen, Colorado, is a "portrait" of the couple. Composed entirely of phrases and dates stenciled on the wall in ...
First $1 million find for U.S. Antiques Roadshow
Reuters / June 30th, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman who inherited some Chinese carved jade from her father has scored the first $1 million appraisal from experts on the U.S. television program "Antiques Roadshow," the producers said on Monday.
Art review: 'Your Bright Future' at LACMA
LA Times Arts / June 28th, 2009
If you miss the 1990s, you'll love “Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea.” Despite the forward-looking title, the new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art seems locked in a wheezing, pre-millennial artistic frame of mind. The 1990s is the decade when ...
Art: A Round Peg
New York Times Art / June 28th, 2009
HERE’S a good art-world quiz question, one that could stump many an astute insider: What do Sol LeWitt, Sonic Youth, Dean Martin, Mel Brooks, Merle Haggard, Hudson River School painting and midcentury New Jersey tract housing have in common?
Julien's hammers down Michael Jackson memorabilia
AP / June 29th, 2009
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A crystal-studded shirt worn onstage by Michael Jackson: $52,500. A young Jackson's painting of Mickey Mouse: $25,000. Owning a piece of a pop icon who died before his time: Priceless. Or, at least, very expensive. Twenty-one items once owned by Jackson sold at auction Friday ...
Women Artists in 'Illumination' at the Orange County Museum of Art
LA Times Arts / June 22nd, 2009
The kernel of a powerful idea resides within “Illumination,” an exhibition of abstract paintings by four women who worked in the deserts of the American Southwest and whose careers pretty much spanned the 20th century. But the kernel never really pops. One reason is that the modest galleries of ...
Christie's Kicks Off London Season with Solid Sales
Artinfo.com / June 26th, 2009
LONDON—Christie’s kicked off the London June sale season tonight with a decent result, selling the most expensive of its offerings but having more trouble with middle-range works, a difficulty that affected the buy-in rate. It was a sale dominated by European and U.K.-based bidders, who bought ...
Cartier's 100 Years in North America
Antiques & the Arts / June 25th, 2009
Manhattan's Fifth Avenue has long been the avenue of elegance, but Cartier bumped up the glamour and glitz tenfold for its exhibition "Cartier's 100th Anniversary in America." In 1909, Pierre Cartier opened a flagship boutique in New York City catering to those clients the company had been ...
Fruitlands Museum Official Charged with Embezzlement
WBZ News Radio (AP) / June 24th, 2009
Worcester (AP) -- A former chief financial officer of a Massachusetts museum has been indicted in connection with an alleged embezzlement of more than $1.3 million. Attorney General Martha Coakley's office announced Tuesday that 58-year-old Peggy Kempton, of Hollis, N.H., turned ...
American Grandeur - Hudson River School at PAFA
Urban Art & Antiques / June 23rd, 2009
Although most of the Hudson River school artists were associated with Hudson River Valley and its surrounding areas and won their fame in New York city, the current exhibition — Public Treasures/Private Visions: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Private ...
Greeks Continue to Pressure British to Return Elgin Marbles
Washington Post / June 21st, 2009
ATHENS -- Greek President Carolos Papoulias ramped up pressure on Britain over the weekend to return priceless statues from antiquity taken more than 200 years ago. His comments came as the new Acropolis Museum opened in Athens.
Pre-Raphaelites back with London show
Reuters / June 23rd, 2009
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Victorian art is making a comeback in London this summer with a major exhibition, and the biggest retrospective to date, of works by John William Waterhouse, who died in 1917.
Why Risk Losing Your Art Collection?
The Huffington Post / June 23rd, 2009
It's become pretty clear to me, working as the Director of the Briddge Group's Chicago office, that there are an awful lot of risks inherent in having a decent (or better) art collection. I think it's important to look at these risks and to consider the value of working with some really ...
Francis Bacon's Strange Sizzle
New York Observer / June 19th, 2009
"Francis Bacon,” a retrospective timed to the centenary anniversary of the artist’s birth (he died in 1992 at the age of 83) is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hs toothy monsters, humping, anonymous men and slabs of meat installed directly off the European wing, a stone’s throw from ...
Bedroom, kitchen, art gallery
CS Monitor / June 22nd, 2009
Homes, gas stations, hair salons house art exhibits and musical performances in hard times.