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Despite Assurances, Met Finds Artworks Aren’t Restored Overnight (NY Times) Questions Over Fixing Torn Picasso (NY Times) For Tapestry, One More Renaissance (NY Times) How Art Affects the Brain (WSJ) A Cultural Agony in a Nation Where Art is Life (LA Times) A Gleaming New Showcase for the Acropolis (LA Times) Christie’s Sees Art-Market Recovery […]
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Tags: Acropolis, Berlin Museum, Christie's, Haiti, iPad, MET, Sotheby's, tapestry, torn Picasso
Frescoes 101
by Emily Waldorf In light of the fascinating current Pompeii exhibition at LACMA, Pompeii and the Roman Villa, I thought it would be interesting to delve into frescoes. Many people know what frescoes look like but few know how they are made. There is a common misconception that frescoes are made with oil-based paint when […]
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Tags: buon fresco, Christopher Knight, frescoes, houses, LACMA, lime mortar, Los Angeles Times, murals, Pompeii, Pompeii and the Roman Villa, Pompeii brothels, review, Roman Art, Westside
An Offering Fit for the Emperors (NY Times) Femininity Salvaged: Lillian Bassman’s Photographs (NY Times) Hundreds Try Out for Art-World Reality Show (NY Times) Modern Maison de Verre in Paris (WSJ) Banksy Works Vanish From Auctions As Demands Drop for Urban Art (Bloomberg) Watts Towers Restoration (ARTINFO) Party Pics: Chinatown Art Walk (ARTINFO) Party Pics: […]
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Tags: Art Walk, art world reality show, Banksy, Chinatown, Lillian Bassman, Los Angeles, Los Angeles gallery openings, Maison de Verre, Paris, restoration, Sarah Jessica Parker, urban art, Watts Towers
Use Their Work Free? Some Artists Say No To Google (NY Times) A Thriftier Lot Comes To Basel This Year (NY Times) A New Concept in Handling Art (NY Times Global Edition) Transforming the Louvre in Uncertain Times (NY Times Global Edition) OCMA Sells paintings to private collector, prompting criticism (LA Times) Window Shoppers: Seasoned […]
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Tags: Art Basel, art party pictures, artists, Brad Pitt, California impressionists, galleries, Google, Grosvenor House, Louvre, OCMA, old masters, party pics, San Francisco, Venice Biennale
Los Angeles Antiques Show
Previously published on ForYourArt By Emily Waldorf A Benefit for P.S. Arts Organized by the Antiques Dealers Association of California (ADAC), the Los Angeles Antiques Show opened on Wednesday, April 22 for a star-studded collector’s preview and party benefiting P.S. Arts. The event was held at Santa Monica’s Barker Hanger and was attended by a mix of art and antique […]
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Tags: antiques, Carlyle, celebs, Edith Weber Fine Antique Jewelry, Habite, LeBreton, Los Angeles Antiques Show, Noho Modern, party pics
Pritzker Prize Goes to Swiss Peter Zumthor (NY Times) Young Artists, Caught in the Act (NY Times) Pulling Masterpieces from the Ruins (WSJ) Versailles Fashion is Feted in Lavish Show of Court Costumes (Bloomberg) Gallery Director Pleads Guilty to Falsifying Records (Bloomberg) Downturn Hits Art Investment Funds (The Art Newspaper) South African Market Continues to […]
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Tags: art investment funds, Bonhams, costume, court, L'Aquila earthquake, Los Angeles art weekend, New Museum, party pics, Peter Zumthor, Pritzker Prize, Salander, South African art market, Versailles
Pulling Art Sales Out of Thinning Air: Gagosian Gallery (NY Times) Art of the Computer Generation at the New Museum (NY Times) Beyond the Armory: Volta, Pulse, and Scope Slideshow (NY Times) L.A.’s Artistic Iconoclasts: “Nine Lives” at the Hammer (LA Times) Strong Suit: Armor in the Art Market (WSJ) Optimism Ahead of Maastricht Fair […]
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Tags: Armory, art fair, auction sabotage, Bridge, Chinese bronzes, Gagosian Gallery, Hammer Museum, Maastricht, New Museum, Nine Lives, opium, party pics, Pulse, Scope, Volta, YSL auction
The YSL sale with totals of $484, 426, 456, is now the greatest single-owner auction in history and second only in all-time high grossing sales to Christie’s multi-owner Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York in November 2006, which had totals of $491,472,000. Auction records were set, thousands of visitors crowded the Grand Palais […]
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Tags: auction, bronze heads, Chinese bronzes, Christie's, faux Chirico, Giorgio di Chirico, history, Le Monde, Le Revenant, Pierre Berge, Pompidou, pre-sale estimate, Qing bronzes, vente YSL-Bergé, YSL Bergé sale, Yves Saint Laurent
By Emily Waldorf The first night of the historic three-day Yves Saint Laurent sale already made $264 million, making it the most successful single owner sale in history. According to Bloomberg, “Dealers said collectors were attracted by the quality of the objects gathered together and were choosing to ignore concerns about falling demand at international […]
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Tags: Brancusi, Chinese bronzes, Christie's, Duchamp, instruments de musique sur un guéridon, James Ensor, Matisse YSL, Mondrian, Paris, Picasso, Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, Pierre Berge, Thomas Seydoux, Yuanmingyuan, Yves Saint Laurent