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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, August 31, 2009
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 | What Saatchi Says Sticks; The contemporary art tastemaker talks
Guardian - August 30th, 2009 21:32
London art collector and dealer Charles Saatchi acknowledges that young, contemporary artists need collectors like him. Saatchi also tells U.K.'s Guardian, "Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art." Yet, Saatchi's influence is far-reaching in terms of which contemporary artists' work will endure. So far, he has liked Damien Hirst's infamous shark in formaldehyde, and he snatched up works by Jeff Koons and ...Read more | |
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 | Michael Mazur Dies; Yale-educated artist, prominent printmaker
Cape Cod Online - August 31st, 2009 00:38
Abstract painter and printmaker Michael Mazur, of Provincetown and Cambridge, Massachusetts, died last Tuesday at age 73. He was married to poet Gail Mazur. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston held a retrospective exhibition of his work in 2000. His work has also been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Read more | |
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 | Prized Pennsylvania Decoy Discovered; Rare 19th c. goose carving emerges from Argentina
AP - August 30th, 2009 23:34
Christie's experts got a surprising e-mail from a man in Argentina. He wondered if the hand-carved Canada Goose that sat on his parents' mantel for decades had any value. Turns out the piece was part of a rare 19th-century working rig that once plied Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River before being found and dispersed in the 1920s and 30s. Scheduled for the auction block on Sept. 30, the white pine bird carving is conservatively estimated at $200,000 to $400,000. Another bird from the ...Read more | |
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 | Life Can't Imitate Art; Model arrested for nudity at the Met
Guardian - August 30th, 2009 22:42
New York - Apparently, nudes can be viewed in oils or bronze, but not in the flesh, dancing in the arms & armor department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Model Kathleen "KC" Neill, 26, was nabbed by police last week and charged with public lewdness after posing naked in the museum for 22-year-old photographer Zach Hyman as part of his series of nudes in New York's public spaces. Hyman says his work is not pornography and that he was inspired by the nudes in the Met's ...Read more | |
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 | Grand Theft of Granville Redmond; Sticky-fingered Florida man wanted for gallery robbery
KTLA News - August 30th, 2009 23:49
Los Angeles - The Los Angeles Police Dept. is looking for Vero Beach, Florida, resident Matthew Taylor, a man they say stole a work by California impressionist Granville Redmond from the L.A. Fine Art Gallery. He then sold the painting to art dealer William Karges for $85,000, saying the artwork was his mother's. In 2007, Karges' gallery employees saw the theft alert on the painting and contacted authorities. Taylor may have also taken $40,000 paintings by Johann Mertz and William ...Read more | |
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 | Museum News Round-Up; Salary surprises, banks as curators, hot dog vendors not welcome
UnBeige Mediabistro - August 28th, 2009 14:01
First, the news outlets continue to fixate on museum officials' salaries. The focus lately is Ellen Futter of the American Museum of Natural History in New York who reels in about $1 million. Second, with museums across the country in financial straits, the NY Times reports that massive financial institutions like Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase are lending exhibitions to museums for a small fee, with their company branding all over it. Finally, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is ...Read more | |
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 | Lester Glassner Passes Away; Major collector of dimestore delights and pop culture
LA Times - August 30th, 2009 22:20
In the early 1960s, Lester Glassner, of New York, picked up a Mickey Mouse lamp at a junk shop and was on his way to forming a massive collection. From his first Disney character, Glassner moved onto a diverse range of objects: vintage movie memorabilia (250,000 movie stills), rare celluloid toys, art glass, dolls, toy sleighs, Halloween masks, antique Seven Dwarfs, World War II propaganda, antique postcards, and loads of symbolic items of pop culture. About 2,500 books from his collection, ...Read more | |
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