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Beatles Sgt. Pepper Album Sets...
ArtfixDaily - April 2nd, 2013A signed copy of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sold at auction for $290,500, almost doubling the previous record for an album cover from the legendary rock band.
120x96.jpg "Claude Monet, Adolphe Monet in the Garden of Le Coteau at Sainte-Adresse, oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x 39 5/8 in., 1867. Anonymous loan.")
Currier Museum Exhibits Rare Loan of...
ArtfixDaily - April 2nd, 2013One of Claude Monet’s most celebrated early paintings—Adolphe Monet in the Garden of Le Coteau at Sainte-Adresse—is now on view at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, for a limited time. The painting, which has been on public view only once in a museum, remained in the artist’s family until 2004. It will return to...
Winterthur Museum boasts one of the...
ArtfixDaily - March 28th, 2013Two years ago, Delaware's Winterthur Museum acquired one of the earliest known American depictions of the Easter Bunny, from Pook & Pook auction house in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.
Remote, New Museum Gets High Rank on...
ArtfixDaily - March 28th, 2013Infiltrating the usual suspects on the list of international museum attendance numbers compiled by the The Art Newspaper is a new museum that has enticed visitors to its rural corner of the world.
Billionaire Trader Buys Picasso...
New York Times - March 27th, 2013Long coveted by billionaire trader Steven A. Cohen, Picasso's iconic “Le Rêve” is now his to keep, and only two weeks after his hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors agreed to pay the government $616 million in a settlement over insider trading accusations.
Napoleon to Josephine Engagement Ring...
ArtfixDaily - March 24th, 2013Napoleon Bonaparte's engagement ring given to his beloved Joséphine in 1796 catapulted well beyond its high estimate of $20,000 to hammer down at more than $948,000 (730,000 euros) at a French auction on Sunday.
Latin American Countries Demand Halt...
ArtfixDaily - March 21st, 2013A Sotheby's auction of 300 pre-Columbian objects set to sell this weekend in Paris has been denounced by four Latin American countries. Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Costa Rica have cited...
Colby College Museum of Art Readies...
ArtfixDaily - March 21st, 2013This is a historic year for both Colby College and the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine. Colby celebrates its bicentennial, and the capstone is the grand opening of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, featuring a $100 million gift of more than 500 works of art, and the reopening of the entire art museum in July.
$3 Chinese Bowl at Garage Sale...
ArtfixDaily - March 20th, 2013A Northern Song Dynasty bowl reportedly bought at a garage sale for $3 soared to $2.2 million on Tuesday at a Sotheby's sale in New York.
Rediscovered Rembrandt Worth $30 Million
ArtfixDaily - March 19th, 2013A portrait long thought to be by a Rembrandt student has now been deemed to be by the 17th-century Dutch master himself, catapulting the value of the painting to about $30 million.
TEFAF Plans New Art Fair in China...
ArtfixDaily - March 19th, 2013TEFAF has announced that it has entered into exclusive discussions with Sotheby’s to explore the possibilities of developing a high-end art fair for China, via Sotheby’s Joint Venture in Beijing with GeHua in 2014.
FBI Says Thieves Identified in...
ArtfixDaily - March 18th, 2013In Boston on March 18, law enforcement officials announced that they have identified the perpetrators in the $500 million art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.
C.M. Russell Auction of Western Art...
ArtfixDaily - March 17th, 2013The Russell: the Auction to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum boasted 220 lots on the auction block, with preliminary estimates indicating the sale raised slightly over $3.1 million Saturday, a total just above last year's.
TEFAF Reports U.S. Return to Top of...
ArtfixDaily - March 14th, 2013The seemingly unstoppable growth of the Chinese art and antiques market came to a halt as it shrank by almost a quarter during 2012 enabling the United States to resume its traditional place as the world’s biggest market, reveals a report published on March 14, at the opening of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht.
Cy Twombly Foundation in Turmoil Over...
ArtfixDaily - March 14th, 2013A lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges two board members of the Cy Twombly Foundation, which was established to promote the American painter’s works and legacy, erroneously collected $300,000 in fees from the charity.
All of Audubon's Birds on view at...
ArtfixDaily - March 13th, 2013A colorful and historically significant group of 474 bird watercolors by John James Audubon will be on view from the collection of the New-York Historical Society for the first time.
Stolen Rembrandt Surfaces in Serbia
ArtfixDaily - March 12th, 2013Earlier this week, the Brooklyn Museum announced that it would be hosting two Rembrandt masterworks from a private collection. Following this news, Serbian police recovered
Keith Haring Foundation Sues...
ArtfixDaily - March 11th, 2013The Keith Haring Foundation, which owns intellectual property rights to the artist's work, along with a significant collection of Haring artwork, has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Miami against organizers of the exhibition "Haring Miami."
Art Museums in Los Angeles Mull Over...
Bloomberg - March 10th, 2013The beleaguered Museum of Contemporary Art has proposed a merger to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Lacma CEO Michael Govan responded to MOCA with...
George Lucas Proposes Billion-Dollar...
ArtfixDaily - March 10th, 2013"Star Wars" filmmaker George Lucas is among 16 contenders who want to develop part of San Francisco's scenic Presidio park. He submitted a plan on Friday for an art museum---housing much of his own collection---as a main attraction in the federally-managed park.
Armory Week 2013 Event Guide
ArtfixDaily - March 6th, 2013The week's largest fair, the Armory Show, features over 200 exhibitors on Piers 92 and 94 (12th Avenue at West 55th Street). Modern art dominates Pier 92 with contemporary art reigning on Pier 94.
Portland Institutes New $35 Arts Tax
Hyperallergic - March 5th, 2013The city of Portland, Oregon, has put arts funding directly into the hands of every taxpayer. Last November, voters passed a new annual income tax of $35 that will raise an estimated $12.2 million a year from 350,000 citizens.
Seward Museum's Thomas Cole Painting...
Syracuse - March 5th, 2013Minutes taken during a meeting in 2008 show that the Thomas Cole painting from the Seward House Museum in Auburn, New York, was valued at $20 million.
Dutch Police Arrest Teenager in...
ArtfixDaily - March 4th, 2013A 19-year-old woman was arrested by Dutch police in connection to the art heist in Rotterdam last fall that netted seven artworks by the likes of Matisse, Gauguin, Picasso and Monet, among others.
US Seizes Trove of Stieglitz and...
HuffPo - March 4th, 2013U.S. authorities seized about 2,200 works by such influential 20th-century photographers as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Edward Weston before the collection was shipped to Spain. The massive trove is valued at $16 million.
Tacoma Art Museum Auction of Chinese...
Seattle Times - March 4th, 2013Donors to the Tacoma Art Museum have been stung by the auction of Chinese jades and robes gifted to the museum's collection. The Young family gave pieces in the 1970s that the museum has sold off, except for a few remaining items that are now slated for sale.
Sotheby's Follows Christie's in...
ArtfixDaily - March 3rd, 2013Sotheby's announced last week that it would be increasing its buyer's premium, the commission paid the auction house above the hammer price, in a move already taken by rival Christie's earlier in the month.
Manet Masterpiece Meets Titian Muse...
ArtfixDaily - February 28th, 2013For the first time since 1890, Edouard Manet's seminal "Olympia" will leave Paris in order to hang alongside a kindred painting in Venice next month, announced Musee d'Orsay.
![[Detail] Multicolored Sonia Delaunay-Terk Shawl Entitled 'A Damiers,' France, c. 1977 (Lot 556, Estimate $600-$800)](/images/cache/Feb28_sonia-delaunay-shawl120x120.jpg "[Detail] Multicolored Sonia Delaunay-Terk Shawl Entitled 'A Damiers,' France, c. 1977 (Lot 556, Estimate $600-$800)")
Skinner to Auction Textiles from Met...
ArtfixDaily - February 28th, 2013Skinner will offer textiles once belonging to The Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 13 in its Marlborough, Mass., gallery. From delicate Brussels lace to a bold Sonia Delauney shawl, the collection runs the spectrum of fine textiles and is estimated within an affordable price bracket for new collectors.
Greek Fashionista Busted for Swiping...
NY Post - February 27th, 2013A fashion publicist from Greece brazenly snatched a Salvador Dali watercolor off the wall of a Manhattan gallery, stuffed it in his bag and walked away.
Rockwell Kent- Rediscovered
May 8th, 2013Masterpiece London to Showcase Spectacular...
May 9th, 2013Homer and Inness Exhibitions Open at the Clark...
May 9th, 2013Art of the Netherlands in the 17th Century and...
May 8th, 2013"Arthur Polonsky: Mythical Flight" on exhibit...
May 9th, 2013The Speed Art Museum Exceeds Funding For $50...
May 7th, 2013MS Rau Antiques Introduces Art Deco Collection...
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