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| Saturday, January 30, 2010 | |
 | Sotheby's To Offer Major Monumental Sculpture By Giacometti On Wednesday, February 3, 2010, Sotheby’s will offer for sale one of the most important sculptures by Alberto Giacometti ever to have come to the auction market: "L’Homme qui marche I", a life-size work that ranks among the most arresting and iconic of the artist’s bronzes. Its appearance at auction in February will mark the first time a Giacometti figure of a walking man in this monumental size has come to auction in over 20 years. (view more...) |
| Friday, January 29, 2010 | |
 | ART Innsbruck: Revival Of Original Prints The 14th ART Innsbruck, which is taking place from 19th to 22nd February, is going back to the roots. The directress, Johanna Penz, entrusted one more time Innsbruck's renown gallery Rhomberg with the concept and assembly of the upcoming big special exhibition, which is devoted to an art form, what was fifteen years ago kind of a godfather at the establishment of the ART Innsbruck.(view more...) |
| Thursday, January 28, 2010 | |
 | Art Forgery Event At V&A Museum The Metropolitan Police Service's Art and Antiques Unit recreates the workshop of the most diverse art forger known in history, Shaun Greenhalgh, at the V&A. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | |
 | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Presents Final Design for Extension to Its Historic Building and Gardens The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston revealed the final, detailed plans for an extension to its historic Museum building, which was designed by Gardner herself with assistance from architect Willard Sears and constructed in 1902. The new wing, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Burt Hill, is expected to open in early 2012. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | |
 | The 50th Anniversary New York Antiquarian Book Fair The 50th Annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America returns this April to the Park Avenue Armory under the management of Sanford L. Smith & Associates.(view more...) |
| Monday, January 25, 2010 | |
 | The MoMA And P.S.1 Select Winner Young Architects Program The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announce the winner of the 2010 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program: the architectural firm Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO – IL). Celebrating its eleventh year, the program continues its commitment to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects. After a successful first decade, the Young Architects Program will now focus on designs which address sustainability, recycling, and reuse.(view more...) |
| Sunday, January 24, 2010 | |
 | Tracey Emin's Chess Set Travels To Whitworth The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester has acquired an original new work by British artist Tracey Emin with help from The Art Fund, the UK's leading independent art charity.(view more...) |
| Saturday, January 23, 2010 | |
 | Art Monaco’10 | Édition Spéciale From April 29th to May 2nd, 2010, Art Monaco’10 | Édition Spéciale will be presented as an exclusive regional and global platform for the promotion of contemporary art in the glamorous Cotê d’Azur.(view more...) |
| Friday, January 22, 2010 | |
 | Return Of Two Two-Edged Swords Of King Jérôme On January 20th, Frédéric Mitterrand put back officially to Jean-François Hébert, president of the public institution of the domain and the castle of Fontainebleau, both two-edged swords of king Jérôme of Westphalia which had been stolen at night from 15 till 16 November 1995.(view more...) |
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 | |
 | Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Tops the Chart as the Most Talked About Oil Painting of the Past Decade overstockArt.com, the leader in handmade oil painting art reproductions, released a list of the top 10 oil paintings featured in the media in the last decade. Topping the list is Leonardo Da Vinci’s internationally revered Mona Lisa. Oil paintings by master artists Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, and Johannes Vermeer also made the list.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | |
 | SFMOMA And Gap Partner To Create Limited Edition T-Shirt Collection To celebrate the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)'s 75th anniversary, Gap is collaborating with the museum to introduce a unique line of eight limited-edition artist-designed T-shirts.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | |
 | U.S. Department Of The Treasury Seized & Forfeited General Property Program VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an auction of seized and forfeited property on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The auction will take place at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, at the VSE Warehouse located at 1173 NW 159th Drive, Miami, FL. (view more...) |
| Monday, January 18, 2010 | |
 | Skinner Offers Rediscovered Georgia O'Keeffe Painting In January Auction Skinner, Inc., one of the world's leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will kick-off its 2010 season with a strong sale of American & European Paintings & Prints on January 29th at noon in the Boston gallery.(view more...) |
| Saturday, January 16, 2010 | |
 | AXA's Acquisition Of "The Denial of Saint Peter" by Louis or Antoine Le Nain Frédéric Mitterrand, the French minister for culture and communication, announces the State’s acquisition of "The Denial of Saint Peter" by Louis or Antoine Le Nain for the Musée du Louvre.(view more...) |
| Friday, January 15, 2010 | |
 | Important Americana At Sotheby's On 22 and 23 January, Sotheby’s will begin the sale season with Important Americana, including furniture, folk art, silver, prints, decorative arts and carpets and will be led by The Important Ranlett-Rust Family Chippendale Figured Mahogany Bombé Slant-Front Desk, Probably by Francis Cook, Marblehead, Massachusetts, circa 1770, An Important American Silver Punch Bowl, Cornelius Kierstede, New York, 1700-1710, and a Fine and Rare Molded Copper Figure of an Indian with Bow and Arrow, Probably Harris & Co., Boston, circa 1880. The two-day sale will begin on Friday 22 January with a 2pm session offering silver, and prints, and conclude on Saturday 23 January with a 10am session of furniture, folk art and carpets. Chinese Export Porcelain from the Private Collection of Elinor Gordon will be offered at 2pm on Saturday 23 January. Works from the sale will be on exhibition at Sotheby’s New York galleries alongside the Private Collection of Elinor Gordon beginning 16 January.(view more...) |
| Thursday, January 14, 2010 | |
 | David Starkey Announces £3.3M Campaign To Save The Staffordshire Hoard For The West Midlands Dr Starkey is amongst a host of prominent public figures supporting the campaign, launched by The Art Fund charity, to raise the £3.3m needed by 17 April to save this awe-inspiring find of Anglo-Saxon treasure for Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | |
 | Susan Collis Produces Limited Edition Artworks In Honor Of The Armory Show 2010 The Armory Show has commissioned British artist Susan Collis to provide images as part of the visual identity for the 2010 fair and to produce three special editions to benefit the Pat Hearn and Colin de Land Cancer Foundation and the Pat Hearn and Colin de Land Acquisition Fund for The Museum of Modern Art.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | |
 | The Best Tribal Art Show In The World Returns To San Francisco On February 12-14, 2010 The 24th Annual San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show will be at the Fort Mason Center from February 12-14, 2009. Widely recognized by arts and museum professionals as the best Tribal Art show in the world, the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show (SFTTA) is an annual meeting ground and exhibition of the top tribal arts dealers and galleries the world over. A vetted show of authentic art from the Oceanic Islands, the Middle East, Central and South America, Africa, Polynesia, Indonesia and the remote tribes of Asia, the SFTTA is the show to attend to view new pieces, discoveries and rare collections.(view more...) |
| Monday, January 11, 2010 | |
 | Sotheby’s To Sell Chinese Export Porcelain From The Private Collection Of Elinor Gordon On the afternoon of 23 January, 2010 Sotheby’s will offer over 280 lots of Chinese export porcelain and China Trade paintings from the private collection of esteemed longtime dealer Elinor Gordon. A fixture at the Winter Antiques Show since its inception in 1955, Gordon is largely credited with elevating Chinese Export Porcelain to an independent collecting category. Indeed she herself began as an avid collector before entering the trade in 1953.(view more...) |
| Sunday, January 10, 2010 | |
 | Meissen Snuffbox Returned To Heirs Of Munich-based Art Gallery The Metropolitan Museum of Art has restituted to the heirs of a Munich-based art gallery an 18th-century Meissen snuffbox. In 1936, the shareholders of the gallery, who were Jewish, were forced to liquidate the gallery's entire stock in response to an extortionate tax demand by the Nazi Government in order to secure their freedom to leave Germany. The gallery's inventory was sold at auction in Berlin in 1936.(view more...) |
| Saturday, January 09, 2010 | |
 | ART Innsbruck - "True Values Are Satisfying – I Am Art" 70 galleries and art dealers from 10 nations present international fine arts of the 20/21st century, focus after 1960 – paintings, works on paper, original graphics, sculptures, editions, photography, new mediums, multiples, objects and installations.(view more...) |
| Friday, January 08, 2010 | |
 | Art Voyage In GRAND HYATT HONG KONG The first Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair (AHAF) was held in 2008 at the New Otani Hotel in Tokyo. The second AHAF was held in 2009 at the Grand Hyatt Seoul. After these two successful events, the third one will be held in 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong Hotel.(view more...) |
| Thursday, January 07, 2010 | |
 | Bill Moggridge Named Director Of The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Bill Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer in 1980 and co-founder of IDEO, the renowned innovation and design firm, has been named director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, effective March 2010.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, January 06, 2010 | |
 | Outsider Art Fair Last year, enthusiasm for the unique Outsider Art Fair prevailed over the turn in the economy, a snowstorm, a change in dates, and a move to a new venue. "At every turn this fair has a new clarity," wrote Roberta Smith of The New York Times, "the art rises to the occasion…" This February 5 – 7, 2010, thirty-eight dealers will gather again at the fair’s new home, 7 West 34th Street, to bring together the largest and most promising Outsider Art Fair yet. The fair brings international attention to art created outside of mainstream society—visionary, primitive, self-taught and intuitive in nature. Besides exhibiting "a kind of outsider art Hall of Fame," The New York Times also notes, "the fair harbors new talents of all kinds."(view more...) |
| Tuesday, January 05, 2010 | |
 | Sotheby's To Sell "The Former Peter Stuyvesant Collection" Sotheby’s is delighted to announce that it will offer for sale 163 works from the former Peter Stuyvesant Collection, property of British American Tobacco Netherlands (BAT), on Monday, March 8, 2010 at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam. The works from the collection to be offered for sale are estimated to realise in excess of €4 million.(view more...) |
| Monday, January 04, 2010 | |
 | ENER-G Powers Major Savings At Landmark New Museum Greater-Manchester-based ENER-G is installing an advanced combined heat and power (CHP) system at the prestigious new £72 million Museum of Liverpool, guaranteeing annual energy savings of more than £500,000.(view more...) |
| Sunday, January 03, 2010 | |
 | An Invaluable Contribution To The Musée d’art Contemporain De Montréal At the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 2009 was a record year in terms of gifts of artworks. Thanks to the exceptional generosity of a great many artists, art dealers, collectors and patrons, the museum was the beneficiary of works worth nearly $4,800,000 this year—the most ever in the Musée’s history. But beyond the numbers, Quebecers have enriched our public Collection with pieces of inestimable value. Some of them are currently on display in the exhibition Major Gifts which not only highlights the museological qualities of these remarkable works, but also pays eloquent tribute to the knowledge, discerning eye and vision of their donors.(view more...) |
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 | |
 | SFAPA Show To Be Held on February 05 - 07, 2010 The 14th Annual San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show (SFAPA) returns to the Fort Mason Center February 5-7, 2010. One of the top Asian Art Shows in North America, the upcoming 2010 show will bring 85 vetted private and international galleries to the Bay City. In recent years the SFAPA has been growing a following of Asian Contemporary galleries and collectors in addition to the existing roster of museum-quality antiques. The SFAPA is a once-a-year opportunity to view collections from private galleries that are predominantly by-appointment-only.(view more...) |
| Friday, January 01, 2010 | |
 | Sotheby’s To Hold The First Hong Kong Wine Auction Of 2010 Sotheby’s is pleased to announce that the fourth part of the Classic Cellar from A Great American Collector will be offered at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on 23 January, 2010 in Victoria and Chater Rooms, 2/F Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, making it the first Hong Kong wine auction of 2010 as well as the first stand-alone wine sale staged at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Being the most valuable wine collection ever offered at auction by Sotheby’s, the fourth part of which will include 840 lots and is expected to raise US$3.6-5.2 million (HK$28.5-40.8 million). It follows the hugely successful sales held in Asia in April and October 2009 which saw Hong Kong join London and New York as leading centres for wine auctions. Indeed, it was with the second part of this collection that Sotheby’s started regular wine sales in Hong Kong in April 2009. All three previous sales of wine from this collection have sold above the high estimates.(view more...) |
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