Archive for the ‘decoration’ Category
By Emily Waldorf Have you ever felt intimidated by hanging artwork yourself and thought that you needed to hire a professional installer? It is actually surprisingly straight-forward to hang your own artwork as long as you do your homework beforehand and use extra special care. Plus, there is no time like a recession to learn […]
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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
Summer School: Chinese Art Books
By Emily Waldorf If you are an art history student or simply an aficionado of Chinese art, there is no time like the present to brush up on the basics, particularly in the area of Chinese painting, where memorizing the rich history, artist names, and iconic scroll paintings is crucial for a more critical understanding. […]
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Tags: Art and China's Revolution, Asia Society, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese paintings, David Sensabaugh, how to read Chinese paintings, Maxwell K. Hearn, Melissa Chiu, The Last Emperor's Collection, Willow Chang, Yang Renkai, Zheng Shengtian
by Emily Waldorf Sterile glass and concrete cubes are the first thing that come to mind when thinking of typical spaces for exhibiting contemporary art. This is not the case in Paris, where contemporary art exhibitions are often displayed in classical hôtels particuliers alongside paintings and sculpture that spans the centuries. A hôtel particulier is […]
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New Yorker Cover Art, Painted with an iPhone (NY Times) Art Review: If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon’s Would Shriek (NY Times) Peter M. Brant Displays A Taste For the Moderns in Greenwich (NY Times) At Paris’ Pompidou Center, the year of the Women (LA Times) Hirst’s Pills, Twombly Squiggles Boost $67 Million New Museum […]
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Tags: art, Art HK, budget cuts, Cy Twombly, Damien Hirst, Dia Art Foundation, Eli Broad, Greenwich, iPhone, MOCA, New Museum, Paris, Peter Brant, Pompidou Center, The New Yorker, Venice Biennale, White House
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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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
One of the largest single-owner sales of all time is hitting the auction block on February 23, 24, & 25 at the Grand Palais in Paris. The Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé is being offered by Christie’s in association with Pierre Bergé Associés (PBA) with a pre-sale estimate of $280-560 million. The collection was amassed […]
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