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Sotheby’s and Christie’s Return to Guaranteeing Art Prices
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Perhaps it’s a mark of confidence in the art market. Or a sign that profit margins are thin. Or simply another big gamble, like the ones taken in 2008.
But naysayers and optimists agree: The world’s largest auction houses are back in the business of guaranteeing prices on works that they sell, one of their most speculative practices.
Former director of Barnes Foundation heads to Christie’s Impressionist and Modern art department
Derek Gillman’s appointment comes in the midst of a management shake-up at the auction house
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The former director of the Barnes Foundation is crossing over to the commercial side of the art world. Derek Gillman, who led the Barnes’s controversial move from its original home in Merion, Pennsylvania to downtown Philadelphia, joined Christie’s on 5 January as chairman and senior vice president of Impressionist and Modern art, the Americas.
Pablo Picasso's granddaughter selling off his art
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Pablo Picasso's granddaughter is selling more than $290 million worth of his art, according to the New York Post.
Marina Picasso is also selling her grandfather's famed Cannes villa, "La Californie."
Andy Warhol Foundation finishes spree of art giveaways
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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts said it has finished one of the biggest art giveaways of all time, sending the remaining contents of what rocker Lou Reed once dubbed "Andy's Chest" to museums and colleges and universities in 48 states and 10 foreign countries.
Sky-High Participation in Seminole County, FL
Philadelphia Releases Weekly Featured Artist Spotlights
Officials Show Support in Raleigh
Do-It-Yourself Art at the Met
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Dear Diary:
In 2013, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art decided to end its 42-year practice of offering visitors colorful metal tags as admission tickets, many people (myself included) lamented the loss of what had become a beloved symbol of that venerable institution.
The Forgotten Plan to Save Great Art From World War III
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From a secret treasure trove below the memorial to Oliver Wendell Holmes in DC to a retrofitted quarry in Wales, our governments have gone to great lengths to protect precious objects from ruin—and a new trove of declassified documents shine light on a new, little-known project to do just that during the Cold War,
Surgery as art? Robotic surgery machine is latest exhibit at Flint Institute of Arts
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There's a da Vinci on display at the Flint institute of Arts, but it's not a painting or a sculpture.
It's a robot — sort of.
Art of homeless, mentally ill on exhibit at Finley Center in Santa Rosa
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In a teaser for the art exhibit “Unseen,” curator naomi murakami asks us to consider how we might react if we were sitting on a bus or in a cafe next to the likes of Vincent Van Gogh without any knowledge of his fame or talent.
The question is at the heart of an art show on exhibit at Santa Rosa’s Finley Community Center through Jan. 29 featuring some 200 works by eight local artists who have struggled with mental illness and homelessness.
Farmer's legacy to his family: A forest filled with fantastic art
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Think of what you drive by every day and don’t see. Seven-year-old Douglas Geis notices more than most. He waved us into the woods near Waldoboro, Maine.
“Follow me!” Douglas shouted as he turned to climb a hill. He wanted to show me a 5-acre forest filled with wonders: thousands of sculptures tucked into the trees.
“See that mermaid sitting on the yellow submarine?” cried Douglas’ cousin, Annabelle Nicholls, another 7-year-old with a keen eye.
Cuba’s Art Scene Awaits a Travel Boom
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Kadir López was working in his studio at his elegant home here when the doorbell rang. It was Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
“I had no idea they were coming,” said Mr. López, whose work incorporates salvaged American signs and ads that were torn down after Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.
About an hour and $45,000 later, Mr. Smith had bought “Coca Cola-Galiano,” an 8-by-4-foot Coca-Cola sign on which Mr. López had superimposed a 1950s photograph of what was once one of the most bustling commercial streets in Havana.
Sargent in Your Pocket: Tintypes the Next Thing in Fine Art Reproductions?
Masterpieces, translated into tintype photos
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When it comes to fine art reproductions, you have photos of paintings turned into posters, and Giclée prints on canvas with hand-painted brushstrokes for texture. Painter Eric Alexander Santoli and wet-plate photographer Christopher-Calvin Pollard are adding a new (albeit old) medium to the options: tintypes.
Painting Or Photograph? With Richard Estes, It's Hard To Tell
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American painter Richard Estes has made a career out of fooling the eye. His canvaseslook like photographs — but they're not.