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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Fairs, online sales boost art

In this photo provided by Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O'Keeffe archive, Portrait with Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz by automobile at Lake George, N.Y.

Love letters of O'Keeffe, Stieglitz exposed in new book

Albuquerqe Journal - August 10th, 2011 18:58

When Albert Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe met in 1916, he was 52 and already considered the nucleus of the New York art world. She was an unknown 28-year-old Texas art teacher. National Gallery of Art photography curator...

Ai Weiwei at his exhibition "Sunflower Seeds," a work consisting of 100 million hand-painted porcelain seeds, currently installed at the Tate Modern in London.

Ai Weiwei returns to Twitter

ArtfixDaily Staff - August 10th, 2011 18:22

Artist Ai Weiwei denounced prison abuses via social media after being held for two months by Chinese authorities. He took to Twitter to protest the treatment of his friends dragged into his case and the detainment of activists.

Cover of Talking With Tebe: Clementine Hunter, Memory Artist by Mary E. Lyons (1998).

Guilty plea for defendant in fake folk art case

ArtfixDaily Staff - August 9th, 2011 18:23

The U.S. Attorney's office announced that Robert E. Lucky, Jr, 64, of New Orleans, pled guilty on Aug. 8 to mail fraud in connection with selling paintings falsely attributed to celebrated Southern folk artist Clementine Hunter (1886-1988).

Antique silver pieces are being melted down as prices rise for precious metal.

Record gold, silver prices spark antiques meltdown

Bloomberg - August 7th, 2011 21:43

A buffet of 18th- and 19th-century silver and gold boxes, candlesticks, flatware and salvers are increasingly heading to the furnace as prices for precious metals have soared in 2011. Collectors and attic raiders are...

The painting, commonly referred to as "Portrait of A Boy and His Dog," has been owned by Virginia's Executive Mansion since it was deeded in 1977 by the estate of Martha Spottswood of Petersburg, Virginia. It portrays Colin Dunlop, born in Petersburg in 1836 and killed in battle during the Civil War in 1864. It was recently authenticated as a painting of George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879).

George Caleb Bingham painting discovered in governor's mansion

Progress-Index - August 4th, 2011 23:01

For decades, a mysterious 19th-century portrait of a young boy and his dog hung in the Virginia governor's mansion. The sitter and artist were unknown. Earlier this year, antiques dealer ...

Egon Schiele's "Hauser mit Bunter Wasche 'Vorstadt' II" sold for $40.1 million at Sotheby's.

Sotheby's tallies record $3.4 billion first half sales

ArtfixDaily Staff - August 3rd, 2011 23:15

Competitive bidding for high value works combined with commissions from booming private transactions pushed Sotheby's consolidated sales to a record $3.4 billion in the first half of 2011. Sotheby's private sales were up 114% in the first half.

Sotheby's locks out art handlers, picketing ensues

Wall Street Journal - August 2nd, 2011 20:08

Art handlers locked out by Sotheby's over a contract dispute picketed the Upper East Side auction house early this week. The contract between the handlers' union, Teamsters Local 814, and the auction house's Manhattan headquarters ended in July...

Eclaireurs attaqués par un tigre, 1904, by Henri Rousseau.

Battle over the Barnes bubbles up again

AP - August 2nd, 2011 21:33

With its new building scheduled to open in Philadelphia next spring, the Barnes Foundation has met another challenge to its impending move from suburban Lower Merion, Penn. On Monday, Judge Stanley Ott presided over a hearing requested by...

A Figurine of a dog made of bronze with a gold collar attributed to Tutankhamun's tomb, which was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings.

Met Museum to return 19 antiquities to Egpyt

AP - August 2nd, 2011 22:19

Nineteen artifacts excavated from the tomb of boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun will be returned to Egypt next week after residing for more than 50 years at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, according to Egypt's antiquities authority.

Cover of Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum

"Chasing Aphrodite" reveals the Getty's illicit treasure-buying

The National - August 1st, 2011 01:00

In recent years, the Getty Museum has given back some of its finest pieces of classical art to Italy. Museums worldwide have followed suit. The reason for this voluntary submission of an art trove?

Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909) Bronco Buster.

States' arts funding slashed further

New York Times - August 1st, 2011 23:30

Small arts groups nationwide are feeling the pinch of recession-time cuts as state grants have dwindled. In Kansas, the state arts budget went to zero in May. Thirty-one states cut their ...

An exceprt from Christian Marclay's The Clock.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to unveil new contemporary art wing

ArtfixDaily Staff - August 1st, 2011 19:17

This September, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will unveil the 80,000-sq.ft. Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. Located in the building I.M. Pei designed for the MFA in 1981, ...

Cover of the Carl Andre monograph from Phaidon.

Phaidon Interview: Artist Carl Andre describes ripping up his plans for '5 x 20 Altstadt Rectangle'

Phaidon - July 20th, 2011 18:53

The American minimalist artist Carl Andre is perhaps best known for his sculptures made from square metal plates placed in grid-like formations lying flat on the surface of the ground. ...

A Pair of 19th Century Griffins (c. 1880 Continental) from Mallett & Son, Ltd., London.

Fairs, online sales boost art dealers' outlook

ArtfixDaily Staff - July 29th, 2011 18:21

A new report sponsored by the non-profit dealer association CINOA finds that fairs and online business are poised to become the main source of revenue for the art and antiques trade