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Yours Truly: Privately Collected Photographs on View at Carnegie Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / February 11th, 2013
A timely exhibition for Valentine's Day, Yours Truly: Privately Collected Photographs, on view at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art, through March 10, 2013, presents more than 60 sensual, romantic, and love-themed works by some of the most outstanding photographers of the 20th century.
MoMA Issues Emergency Guidelines for Saving Artwork
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2012
In the wake of super storm Sandy's devastation, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has posted online a handy checklist of art-saving measures.
Small College Receives Major Gift of Ansel Adams Photographs
College of New Rochelle / October 10th, 2012
The College of New Rochelle in New York State has received a gift of a complete Museum Set of photographs by renowned American photographer Ansel Adams with an appraised value of $2.5 million.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Receives Transformative Gift
Boston Globe / May 20th, 2012
A treasure trove of art collected by Saundra and the late William Lane has been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. On Saturday, the museum announced the extraordinary gift of 6,000 photographs, 100 works on paper, and 25 paintings, potentially valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Pioneer collectors in American modernist painting and photography...
Spring Art Auctions Boast All-Star Line-Ups
ArtfixDaily / March 29th, 2012
A number of standout artworks by modern masters Cezanne, Munch and Warhol as well as pioneering women artists from Tamara Lempicka to Cindy Sherman are heading to the auction block in May. Leading the line-up is the high-profile sale of...
Getty Acquires 25 Ansel Adams Photographs
ArtfixDaily / March 5th, 2012
A California couple has gifted 25 iconic images by acclaimed 20th century photographer Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984) to the J. Paul Getty Museum. Carol Vernon and her husband Robert Turbin donated “The Museum Set” in memory of Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, who purchased the images directly ...
Photographer Andreas Gursky Unseats Cindy Sherman in Record Setting Sale
CBS News / November 14th, 2011
A digital photograph entitled “Rhein II” by German photographer Andreas Gursky sold for $4.3 million last week at Christie’s New York, setting a new record for the artist and the category.
Duchess of Windsor to Become a Patron of the Arts
Telegraph / October 2nd, 2011
The Duchess is considering lending her patronage to a number of British arts institutions, thought to include The Tate, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A.
Critics Say Bob Dylan Paintings Mirror Famous Photographs
International Business Times / September 29th, 2011
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's first ever New York gallery exhibition has come under scrutiny as critics have denounced some of his work as painted copies of famous photographs. "The Asia Series," at Gagosian Gallery, includes works that Dylan said...
Interview: Photographer Stephen Shore
Phaidon / July 5th, 2011
'In the mid-1970s I was once invited for dinner at a friend's loft in SoHo,' recounts Shore. 'At dinner was Ansel Adams. During the meal I saw Ansel drink six tall glasses of straight vodka and...
Billy the Kid tintype wrangles $2.6m
/ June 28th, 2011
Private collector William Koch ponied up $2.6 million (with 15% commission) for the only known surviving portrait of Billy the Kid at a Denver auction. The tintype of the legendary outlaw blew away its pre-sale estimate of ...
Cindy Sherman sets auction record for photography
PSFK / May 22nd, 2011
Art advisor Philippe Segalot reportedly purchased Cindy Sherman’s (b. 1954) “Untitled #96″ at a Christie’s auction in New York in May for $3.89 million, a record amount for a photograph at auction. “Untitled #96″ is one in the "Centerfolds" series of ten photographs commissioned in 1981, but ...
American Folk Art Museum passes fair to new owner
New York Times / May 7th, 2011
Ownership and management of the annual American Antiques Show, a ten-year-old fundraiser for New York's American Folk Art Museum, has been turned over to the Art Fair Company in an effort to stabilize the museum's finances. Faced with a default on nearly $32 million worth of bonds that it ...
Art world news briefs
ArtfixDaily / November 4th, 2010
SALE STYMIED: British authorities have stalled the sale of J.M.W. Turner's 1839 painting "Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino" to the J. Paul Getty Trust. At a Sotheby's auction in London last July, California's Getty placed the high bid of $44.9 million for the work. Yet on Wednesday, Great Britain's ...
Photographer Massimo Vitali exposes people at play
ArtfixDaily / September 1st, 2010
Massimo Vitali's unique views of the rites and rituals of modern-day leisure are on display in his third exhibition at M+B in Los Angeles, from September 11 to October 16, 2010. Featuring new work from 2009 and 2010, the exhibition includes eight large-scale color photographs from Austria, ...
Ansel Adams trust sues Rick Norsigian
LA Times blog / August 26th, 2010
The Fresno, Calif., man who says he bought a stack of glass-plate negatives created by Ansel Adams at a garage sale for $45 is being sued by the famed nature photographer's trust. Rick Norsigian assembled a team of various specialists, although none are known photography experts, to ...
Ansel Adams's trust says rediscovered photographs phony
AP via Boston Globe / July 28th, 2010
The 65 glass negatives bought for $45 a decade ago at a garage sale by Fresno, California, painter Rick Norsigian are not by Ansel Adams (d. 1984), according to the photographer's trust. Norsigian's lawyer announced Tuesday that the images of places such as Yosemite and Carmel were long-lost ...
Newly authenticated Ansel Adams cache valued at $200 million
ArtfixDaily / July 27th, 2010
Rick Norsigian, a painter from Fresno, California, bought two boxes containing 65 glass negatives by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams ten years ago. His $45 garage sale find may be worth up to $200 million, says one expert. "You look at these photographs and they take your breath away," ...
American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White
ArtfixDaily / July 26th, 2010
On October 2, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents 'American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White.' This special exhibition explores the work of three of the foremost photographers of the twentieth-century and the golden age of documentary photography in America. ...
Johnnie Shand Kydd photographs expose the irresistible Siren City
ArtfixDaily / June 29th, 2010
Tough, dirty, and noisy, Naples is nevertheless a charming city that never fails to make you laugh. Fifty black and white photographs present an evocative tableaux of southern Italian life in "Siren City: Photographs of Naples by Johnnie Shand Kydd," an exhibition opening on June 30, at the ...