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Steal a Classic Ferrari & More at Monterey Sale
Luxist / August 10th, 2009
On August 13th - 15th Russo & Steele will stage their Monterey Sports & Muscle sale in California, offering some incredible deals on classic Ferraris and more. On the high end is this 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4, with an estimate of $1 million – $1.1 million...
$14 Million Rolls-Royce on Offer in Museum Sale Could Be World's Most Expensive Car
Luxist / August 10th, 2009
The one-of-a-kind 1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom II, known as the "Star of India", is being sold off by famed Rolls-Royce collector Hans-Günther Zach, who's liquidating his private museum dedicated to the marque in Germany...
Annie Leibovitz’s Epic N.Y. Renovations Spurred Lawsuit, Debt
Bloomberg / August 10th, 2009
The former owners of two 19th century homes in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village said they regret selling them in 2002 to photographer Annie Leibovitz, who is now in danger of losing the properties in a $24 million lawsuit.
Warhol's portrait of Michael Jackson goes on show pre-sale
Reuters / August 7th, 2009
LONDON (Reuters) - A portrait of the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, by the King of Pop Art, Andy Warhol, went on show in London on Thursday for three days in the lead-up to an auction in New York of the 1984 painting.
U.K.'s Government Art Collection Adorns Offices
bloomberg / August 9th, 2009
There is a deceptive John Le Carre feeling about the U.K. Government Art Collection (or GAC). This collection -- equivalent to a small museum -- contains works by such well-known figures as William Hogarth, Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Andy Warhol. The last is an exception...
Jeff Koons: 'We Are Ourselves Inflatables'
UnBeige Mediabistro / August 6th, 2009
Jeff Koons oozes the wild charisma usually reserved for successful dictators. Be glad that he's using his powers for shiny, happy, multi-million-dollar good (and the odd invasion of Versailles)...
S.F. art community fears loss of Gap founder's massive collection
LA Times Arts / August 7th, 2009
Donald Fisher's plan to house his contemporary art in a new museum at San Francisco's historic Presidio ran afoul of preservationists, and now other cities are wooing him.
Swell Summerhouse: Coliseum-builder's own ruins
Bloomberg / August 6th, 2009
Italian archeologists may have uncovered the summer villa of the Roman Emperor Vespasian near his birthplace in the mountains northeast of Rome, La Stampa newspaper reported.
Cartier-Bresson finally gets the focus
Bloomberg / August 6th, 2009
Better late than never. Two shows in Paris celebrate the centenary of the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was born in 1908.
Serenity now: Chinese Buddha heads Jenack auction
Auction Central News / August 6th, 2009
CHESTER, N.Y. - William Jenack Auctioneers will conduct a 395-lot Fine Art & Antiques auction, featuring a special selection of Asian art, on Aug. 9. Highlights include a Chinese carved limestone head of Buddha, Sui (581-618 A.D.) with an estimate of $4,000 to $6,000...
Tea Table Primer
About.com / August 6th, 2009
Through the 18th century right up until the 1770s, a good number of small rectangular tables and round tilt-top tables were crafted in Colonial America, especially in Queen Anne and Chippendale styles. We usually refer to them as “tea tables,” but did they really have much to do with tea?
New Orleans Auction Galleries serves up Southern estates
Auction Central News / August 5th, 2009
Summer heat and humidity in the Crescent City hasn't stopped New Orleans Auction Galleries Inc. from putting together an August sale that will have auction-goers wiping their brows as bidding intensifies. The auction Aug. 8-9 will feature art, antiques and curios from numerous Southern estates ...
Sporting Art, Decoys take in $4.15 million at Copley's Auction
Antiques & the Arts / August 5th, 2009
PLYMOUTH, MASS. - Copley Fine Art Auction's July 15 to 16 sale grossed an impressive $4,158,929; even more impressive is the fact that $1.8 million of that total came from the six of the seven Crowell decoys from the Long collection...
RISD Museum of Art's Director Unexpectedly Resigns
UnBeige Mediabistro / August 5th, 2009
Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art's director Hope Alswang has announced that she is resigning, effective immediately, to pursue other opportunities.
The Guggenheim At 50: A Legacy Spirals On Fifth
NPR 1 / August 5th, 2009
A half-century ago, an eye-popping object landed on Fifth Avenue in New York City. It looked like it had dropped from outer space, and was treated as such. It was the Guggenheim museum, and today, tourists come from around the world to marvel at it.
Changing of the Guard at Maine Museums
Down East Magazine / August 4th, 2009
As improbable as it seems, Sharon Corwin, director of the Colby College Museum of Art, may be Maine’s longest-serving art museum director. She’s been in her job for three years. In what some see simply as an extra-ordinary coincidence, the leadership of virtually every other Maine art institution ...
What they painted on the summer vacations
Boston Globe / August 4th, 2009
PORTLAND, Maine - Breezy and to the point, “Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England’’ is an ideal, if flawed, summer exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art. Ideal, because a century ago, painters flocked to New England shores each summer...
Eyeing Provincetown's place in American art
Boston Globe 2 / August 4th, 2009
Some of the great artists of the 20th century put paint to canvas at the Days Lumberyard studios in Provincetown. Robert Motherwell was there, and Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, and George McNeil, among others. “Days Lumberyard Studios 1915-1972,’’ a rewarding exhibit at Acme Fine Art, offers ...
'The Chimaera of Arezzo' at the Getty Villa
LA Times Arts / August 4th, 2009
The Getty features an exhibition featuring the masterpiece of Etruscan bronzework known as the Chimaera of Arezzo and traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera over five centuries of classical art.
Book reveals Jasper Johns, the Jokester
UnBeige Mediabistro / August 3rd, 2009
Artist Jasper Johns tends to confront cameras with an expression of steely bemusement that stops just short of a glower. But don't mistake Johns's intensity for humorlessness, notes James Rosenquist in his memoir, Painting Below Zero, due out in October from Knopf...