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Art Basel Miami Beach returns with high expectations
Wall Street Journal / November 28th, 2010
Buoyed by confidence stemming from recent strong sales at New York's contemporary art auctions, dealers clamored to exhibit in the current edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. Booth applications rose by 20% over last year. There will be blue-chip 20th-century art offerings, but dealers are also ...
Steve Martin's "An Object of Beauty" debuts Nov. 23
New York Times / November 18th, 2010
Mega art dealer Larry Gagosian and legendary 20th-century artist Maxfield Parrish figure largely in a new novel by actor-writer-musician-comedian Steve Martin. Set to be released on Tues., "An Object of Beauty" is a sketch of the New York art world inspired by Martin's own experience while ...
Houston to host new international art fair in 2011
Houston Chronicle / November 17th, 2010
Organizers of art fairs in the Hamptons, N.Y.; Aspen, Colo.; and San Francisco have selected Houston, Texas, as their next venue. Hamptons Expo Group hopes to draw about 10,000 visitors for the inaugural Houston Fine Art Fair to be held Sept. 15-18 at the George R. Brown Convention Center. ...
"Sargent and Impressionism" exhibit on view in New York
NY1 / November 15th, 2010
An outstanding selection of John Singer Sargent's oils and works on paper, each dating from between 1883 and 1889, is on view in "Sargent and Impressionism" at Adelson Galleries in Manhattan. Among the highlights are two beautiful oil sketches...
Preview the new wing at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston Globe / November 14th, 2010
The much-anticipated $500 million Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is set to open to the puplic on Saturday, Nov. 20. Admission is free that day. The 53 new galleries, designed by Foster + Partners, holds about 5,000 works from the museum’s American collections, more ...
Record-breaking Lichtenstein leads $272 million Christie's sale
ArtfixDaily / November 10th, 2010
Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie's Nov. 10 evening sale in New York garnered an impressive total of $272.8 million for 75 lots (5 passed). Pop Art from the 1960s secured the hefty prices realized. The leading lot of the night was Roy Lichtenstein's (1923-1997) comic-style painting ...
Contemporary art totals $222 million at Sotheby's; Louise Bourgeois' Spider among stars
ArtfixDaily / November 9th, 2010
Several intruiging works, not neccessarily the top billed lots, soared above estimates at Sotheby's Nov. 9 evening sale. Contemporary Art brought in a sizable $222.4 million total for a small auction of 55 lots. Five lots went unsold. One surprise performer was a sculpture that questioned the ...
Penn. county considers value of library's prized Hassam painting
ArtfixDaily / November 9th, 2010
A public library in Erie County, Pennsylvania, may have a painting worth $5 million within its extensive art collection. Last summer, a New York City art dealer, who saw the artwork in person, wrote a letter to an Erie County councilman suggesting that he might be able to sell Blasco Library's ...
High Museum receives significant gift of 19th-century American paintings and sculptures
ArtfixDaily / November 8th, 2010
The High Museum of Art has received a major gift of 90 paintings and sculptures from the Atlanta-based West Foundation’s nineteenth-century American collection. The donated works include 49 paintings and 41 sculptures, establishing the High as a major resource for nineteenth-century American art. ...
“Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time” at the Whitney
ArtfixDaily / November 7th, 2010
Edward Hopper's art delivers a soulful take on living in the industrial age. “The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm,” he wrote, “and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of colour, form and design.” In the current exhibition at the Whitney Museum of ...
New York auction series may reap record $2 billion
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2010
Perhaps emboldened by two over $100 million prices for modern masters in the past year, the upper echelon of the art market is seemingly far removed from the global recession. Impressionist, modern and contemporary art sales scheduled over a two-week period in New York City this November may ...
Fisk University rejects latest proposal for Stieglitz collection
ArtfixDaily / October 28th, 2010
On Monday, Fisk University in Nashville told the state attorney general that it is not interested in displaying the art collection of Alfred Stieglitz. An alumna recently proposed a gift of funds to maintain the art at the financially troubled school. The school says the maintenance of the ...
Upcoming movie, auction celebrate Wyeth legacy
ArtfixDaily / October 26th, 2010
Ranking among America's most beloved 20th-century artists, Andrew Wyeth, who died in 2009, remains so popular today that his life and art warrant a motion picture, a fundraising auction, and even a couple of museums centered on his work. From November 8 through November 29, Adelson Galleries in ...
Sanctions lifted from National Academy Museum
ArtfixDaily / October 21st, 2010
The Association of Art Museum Directors has suspended punishing sanctions on the National Academy Museum & School in New York City. An important repository of American art, the academy was barred from loans and other collaborative programs with association members. Sanctions were imposed in ...
USArtists shines at PAFA
ArtfixDaily / October 20th, 2010
The 2010 USArtists appeared right at home at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts's beautiful Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building in the center of Philadelphia from Sept 30 to Oct. 3. While rain storms kept some collectors away, about 3,000 show visitors gave an enthusiastic response to the venue ...
Property of artist Ben Shahn featured in Rago auction, Nov. 14
ArtfixDaily / October 18th, 2010
Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was one of the most popular artists of the 1940s and 1950s. His graphic brilliance, visual and emotional realism, and social conscience attracted an international audience. The children of Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernarda, chose Rago Art and Auction Center, in ...
Neal auction sends Audubon birds to new heights
Auction Central News / September 30th, 2010
New Orleans-based Neal Auction Co.’s Sept. 11-12 auction tallied over $2.2 million including 18 world record auction prices. American buyers were focused on a group of 64 John James Audubon (1785- 1851) prints from the Havell edition of "The Birds of America." Among the star lots ...
Early Alamo painting ascends above $35K
ArtfixDaily / September 30th, 2010
Clarke Auctions, now in a new location on Boston Post Road in the Village of Larchmont, Westchester County, New York, had a few surprises in its Sept. 12 to 13 sales. One hot lot was a small Seymour Thomas oil painting, in poor condition, originally estimated at $100-150. It sold to a Texas art ...
Ex-banker's artwork returned to Brazil
ArtfixDaily / September 22nd, 2010
The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York returned two seized paintings to Brazil on Tuesday. Part of a large collection smuggled into the U.S. in 2006, Roy Lichtenstein's "Modern Painting with Yellow Interweave" and "Figures dans une structure" by Uruguayan artist ...
Bank of America commits $10 million gift to MFA Boston
ArtfixDaily / September 20th, 2010
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) has announced a donation of $10 million from Bank of America, making the financial institition the leading corporate donor to the museum. The gift is spilt between $5 million in funding and $5 million in art from the bank's extensive collection. Ellsworth ...