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Recommendations, so far, on fall auction-going

Posted in Auctions, tagged , , , , , , on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Now that your stocks have rebounded, you might be considering a jump back into the auction circuit.  Two upcoming sales sound noteworthy: September 14th- Doyle New York hosts a sale of Asian Works of Art, including property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  This gorgeous pagoda model is one such work being deaccessioned by the [...]

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NYTimes can’t get enough of the Met: 3 story round-up

Posted in Exhibitions, News, tagged , , , , , , , on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In celebration of being accepted as a volunteer tour guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (well, sort of, there are nine months of training before I get started; I did get fingerprinted and my ID, though!), here are the recent happenings at the Met as told by its biggest fan, the New York Times: [...]

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Museums and collectors stocking up on Chicago Stock Exchange remnants

Posted in Auctions, News, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The New York Times reports that architectural artifacts from the old Chicago Stock Exchange building are increasingly becoming hot commodities on the auction block.  Museums, including the Met and the Seattle Art Museum, have acquired and are prominently displaying these treasures- attractive for both their aesthetic and historical appeal-  in their permanent collections.  Check out the full article and [...]

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Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective opens at Met

Posted in Exhibitions, tagged , , , , , on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s like Francis Bacon week on The Amateur Art Collector!  A big retrospective of his opened at the Met yesterday, but to surprisingly little buzz in New York as far as I can tell.  There’s also a related lecture tomorrow at 6pm that’s free with museum admission. Here’s the official website and blurb: The first [...]

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More bad news for the international art market, Sotheby’s in particular

Posted in Auctions, Economics, tagged , , , , , , on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It was a buyer’s market at the Christie’s Dubai sale last week.  While within the auction estimate, the evening brought in less than $5 million as compared to the $8.65 million made at the same sale a year ago.  The most expensive lot was Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli‘s “The Wall and the Script” (pictured above), [...]

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Visiting Walker Evans’s Alabama

Posted in Artists, Exhibitions, tagged , , , , , on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There’s an enjoyable article titled “On the Path of Walker Evans” by Laura Holson in the Escapes section of The New York Times today.  The author travels through the small towns in Alabama where Evans, during the depression era, took photographs that offer poignant social commentary from that period. The slideshow that accompanies this article contains ”Roadside Stand [...]

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