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Welcome to our weekly art collector Blog!
Week of August 15. 2010
Art News, This Week's Headlines:
LONDON.- Christie's announced the September auction of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints, which will showcase five centuries of printmaking and a remarkable selection of famous names from all periods. Alongside iconic prints by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró...
BRUGES.- The sculpture "Woman with Drawers" by Salvador Dali, valued at 100,000 euros, was stolen from an exhibition hall in Bruges (NW Belgium), the Belgian press said today.
A security camera filmed how the thieves hid the statue in a bag and left the show shortly after noon Wednesday. Ardaily
Over the past few months, one of the nation’s leading art museums, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), has acquired a seminal piece of 18th-century French silver, rare examples of 17th- and 18th-century Spanish religious iconography...
Stolen Greek Statue Confiscated in Canada to Return Home to Egypt. The Associated Press
Michener Art Museum Presents Tales from the FBI's Real Indiana Jones. in May, five paintings were stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris . What were the thief, or thieves, thinking when they walked off with a Picasso, a Matisse, a Braque, a Modigliani and a Leger? Did they plan to sell these paintings, whose heist was widely reported, or did they hope to place them on the mantel and gaze lovingly? Ardaily
Love, Death, the Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix in Montreal. From September 24, 2010, to January 2, 2011, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will be presenting ROUGE CABARET: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix, the first North American exhibition devoted to Otto Dix (1891-1969), one of the twentieth century’s most important German painters. Ardaily
Dallas Contemporary announces its new membership group called Y@161 with events and programming geared toward young professionals and art enthusiasts. Ardaily
A Shot in the Dark. Spanning more than 100 years of artistic production, from early 20th-century landscape painting and modernist abstraction to 1960s conceptualism and contemporary sculpture, this exhibition places a group of recent Walker acquisitions in the context of rarely seen works from the collection, including two films never before on view. Walker Art
FLORENCE, Italy – Center-right Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and center-left Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi are, perhaps unsurprisingly, not the closest of friends. What is surprising, however, is that the turf of their latest ideological battle is not politics but art history, with each man claiming that his government has control of
Michelangelo's towering "David" sculpture, on view at the Accademia gallery in Florence. ARTINFO
Lelia Pissarro - mentioned in article titled Antiques Dealers Fair Limited to Launch New Boutique Fine Art and Antiques Fair in Leicestershire / ArtDaily
All Eyes on Kees van Dongen. Van Dongen shared a studio with Pablo Picasso in Paris and immortalized his mistress...
Artist Anish Kapoor has criticized proposed government cuts to arts funding, calling them "short-sighted". BBC 08/03/10
Does great art make you ill? Scientists are to monitor the vital signs of tourists in Florence after they see works of art – to test if Stendhal syndrome exists. The Guardian (UK)
US Pledges To Make Artist Visas Easier To Get - Washington Post 08/04/10
Lucien Pissarro, Landscape through Trees, Tilty Wood, Sold for 55,000 NZD, International Art Centre, Jul 28, 2010
UK Clampdown On Art Imports Riles Dealers - The Art Newspaper
Getty Research Institute's Thomas Gaehtgens makes his mark. The director of the Getty's scholarly arm has quietly gained acclaim for shepherding the institute through cost-cutting measures and boosting its research capabilities. Los Angeles Times
Rome's Graffiti Pits Artists Against Clean-Up Crews. ROME—On a recent afternoon, a group of American diplomats gathered on Rome's cobblestones with buckets and rollers, spreading peach-colored paint across the weather-beaten façade of a medieval storefront. Their mission: To cover up the swirls of graffiti lining one of Rome's oldest neighborhoods. Wall Street Journal
Rediscovering the Women of the Hudson River School - Smithsonian
Christie’s Sales Surge by 46% After Demand Recovers From Slump Bloomberg / August 2010
Results for the "Prints & Multiples Sale 2333" of Christie's New York are now listed below under "Auction Results". I have only included our artists' works.
Christie's New Auctions List through October is now listed below under "Upcoming Auctions".
New auction listing below for "Tejan's" MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART - DESIGN, SALE 9541, Jul 27 2010 7:00 PM, Monaco
Hungary Sued for $100M Worth of Art Looted by Nazis - New York Times 07/28/10
Ansel Adams Negatives Bought at Garage Sale - Are They Authentic? - Los Angeles Times 07/28/10
PARIS — The most novel show of the year is now on view at the Louvre. “Routes d’Arabie” (Roads of Arabia) sets off the viewer’s mind dreaming like none other...Forget about Arabia as a land without figural representation. It was already there in the fourth millennium B.C. In a small village near Ha’il, three sandstone steles were dug up within the last four decades. 
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