The Art Thief by Noah Charney
On Art and Connoisseurship by Max J. Friedlander
Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts by Nina Fletcher Little
Creating Picturesque America by Sue Rainey
Chinese Export Porcelain: East to West by Shirley Ganse
Andrew Carnegie by David NasawGeo | March 31, 2009
In a word, yes! Antiques are green because they don’t need to be created, they already exist. That means no carbon has been burned (not recently anyway) to produce an antique. There could be a qualifier, however, and that is assuming the antique hasn’t traveled around in a truck from show-to-show until it’s purchased. If [...]
Hui | March 29, 2009
The strong performance of the auction shows a relatively healthy economy of Pittsburgh region. A. F. King, and Joseph Woodwell are mostly known in the Ohio Valley and Western Pennsylvania area. Westmoreland Museum of American Art, which dedicats their efforts to promoting the art of Southwest Pennsylvania, has through years of exhibition of both permanent collection and temporary shows, curated a group of regional collectors and ignited their fever in appreciating the regional art, in particular Scalp Level School. [Read More...]
Hui | March 27, 2009
From March 24 to April 30, 2009, a focused selection of the museum’s finest works will be featured in the exhibition In Pursuit of the Exotic: Artists Abroad in 19th Century Egypt and the Holy Land. Curated by David Farmer, the exhibition explores how artists in that era depicted their expanding world. [Read More...]
Geo | March 27, 2009
This is the first day for public viewing of Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea at the Brooklyn Museum. Last night at a members-reception I had the opportunity to view the show, to much delight. I do have to say I agree in part with a New York Times review from this morning, however. Reviewer Holland Cotter wrote that Caillebotte’s paintings “have more to do with academic realism than with the scintillations of Monet.” [Read More...]
Hui | March 26, 2009
But what will the public see from the current Hernan Bas exhibition? In some paintings, the ambiguity defies one opinion more preferable against another yet more or less viewers can find some common grounds. However, the majority of them, like the turbulent water in dark palette, just reflects what are in viewers’ minds. If you look for it, you will find it. [Read More...]
Hui | March 25, 2009
A costly two-day public grogram offered from the Frick Collection.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler in The Frick Collection
March 26 – April 2, 2009
Along with Gilbert Stuart, Whistler is one of only two American artists represented in The Frick Collection, and Henry Clay Frick acquired more of his works—five paintings, twelve etchings, and three pastels—than of any other [...]
Hui | March 25, 2009
The American Art Pottery Association’s 29th annual convention will return to The City of Brotherly Love on April 22-26, 2009. The event’s success last year prompted a repeat visit to Philadelphia, and 2009 will feature entirely new tours, seminars, and educational exhibits, many of which highlight the Arts and Crafts movement and its pottery. The convention will again be headquartered at the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel in Langhorne, Pa., located near I-95 and Route 1. [... Read More]
Hui | March 23, 2009
Now it has changed: Young generation of Chinese talk about Shostakovitch, Boulez, or John Adams, but 50 years ago, the only officially approved western music in China was of Russian School. Less rhetoric than German, less dandy than French, Russian music is one of the kind that my father’s generation felt and loved.
The Bavarian Radio [...]
Hui | March 23, 2009
A group of paintings by A. F. King will be auctioned at Constantine and Pletcher on March 27 and 28, next weekend.
Late Night Snack by Albert F. King (Courtesy of CMOA)
One of my favorite paintings at Carnegie Museum of Art is by A. F. King. When at his best, his still life like “Late Night [...]
Geo | March 22, 2009
I Just returned from an event a panel discussion at the Brooklyn Museum: The Market: Woman Artists from Studio to Collection. The panelists included Deborah Harris from the Armory Show; Deepanjana Klein from Christie’s; Gallery owner Claire Oliver; Institute for Woman and Art Co-Director Dr. Ferris Olin; Gallery Owner Sue Scott and A.I.R Gallery Director [...]
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