December 20th, 2010 
UAA Team 
The Winter Antiques Show celebrates its 57th year as America’s most prestigious antiques show, providing museums, established collectors, dealers, design professionals and first-time buyers with opportunities to see and purchase exceptional pieces showcased by 74 exhibitors. This year, specialists in 17th to 19th century American furniture and decorative arts, old master drawings and European sculpture, [...]
Posted in Antiques, Art, Show & Gallery 
Tags: Chubb Personal Insurance, Dan and Cynthia Lufkin, East Side House Settlement, Gerald Summers and Gio Ponti, Historic Charleston Foundation, Jeff Daly, Pauline C. Metcalf, Peter Pennoyer, Sallie Krawcheck, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Jayne, Vanessa Remington, Winter Antiques Show, Young Collectors Night 
2 Comments » December 19th, 2010 Geo 
It’s the most reproduced portrait in history. I could have probably guessed as much, but It wasn’t immediately apparent to me that Gilbert Stewart’s Athenaeum Portrait of George Washington could have been considered propaganda. Someone not trained to be as endeared to the paternal figure could have easily surmised as much, however. I recently read [...]
Posted in Art, Artist Tags: Adam Greenhalgh, Athenaeum Portrait, Catholic, George Washington, Gilbert Stewart, Winterthur Portfolio No Comments » December 19th, 2010 UAA Team 
Organizers reported five hundred New Yorkers, furious at the Smithsonian Institution’s removal of David Wojnarowicz’s video, “A Fire in My Belly,” from the National Portrait Gallery’s current acclaimed “Hide/Seek” exhibition in Washington D.C., marched up Fifth Ave. from the Metropolitan Museum today to the Smithsonian’s NYC outpost, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, to express their outrage and [...]
December 16th, 2010 Geo 
Sometimes you see some pretty strange things in antique malls. I was feeling shut in and decided to do a walk through the Vinyards Antique Mall in Colleyville, Texas. It was there I found the Avon wishes you a Merry Christmas album, and the painting of a menorah with the word Jesus written above it. [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business Tags: Avon, Colleyville, Jesus Menorah, texas, Vinyards Antique Mall No Comments » December 16th, 2010 UAA Team 
IMPORTANT ALERT…. PROTEST DECEMBER 19 beginning 1 p.m. at the Metropolitan Museum of Art over the removal of Wojnarowicz video from the National Portrait Gallery. See comments below for details. The Washington Post reports that Canadian artist AA Bronson has asked the National Portrait Gallery to remove a major work of his to be withdrawn [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Show & Gallery Tags: 1994, AA Bronson, Felix, Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, June 5 1 Comment » December 15th, 2010 Geo 
Once again the doorbell rang after dark. The lack of sunlight and the time of year made it seem appropriate that it was the UPS delivery person bringing a copy of David Cleveland’s new book A History of American Tonalism,1880-1920. After-all, it’s never morning in a tonalist painting, and never Spring. I could hear it [...]
December 15th, 2010 UAA Team 
The Monterey Museum of Art in California is presenting Miro, Matisse & Picasso: Celebrating Color and Line, an exhibition of works on paper by three masterful artists of the twentieth century. Miro, Matisse & Picasso: Celebrating Color and Line features a variety of prints from the Monterey Museum of Art’s permanent collection including etchings and [...]
December 13th, 2010 ewmiller 
The Warhol Foundation wants the Smithsonian to stop censoring or lose financing. The foundation sent a letter December 13 to Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution that says while it is proud to have been a lead supporter of Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, it strongly condemns the decision to remove David Wojnarowicz’s video A Fire in My Belly from the exhibition. “Such blatant censorship is unconscionable.”
Posted in Art, Artist, Museum, Show & Gallery Tags: A Fire in My Belly, Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol Foundation, Annie Leibovitz, Bill Donohue, Bill Moyers, Catholic League, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jasper Johns, Joe Wachs, John Singer Sargent, National Portrait Gallery, PBS, Sister Wendy, Smithsonian, Warhol Foundation 2 Comments » December 13th, 2010 UAA Team 
Marble enthusiasts traveled from as far away as Chicago and Indianapolis to attend Morphy’s Auction in November that featured rare handmade, machine-made and transitional marbles from old-time, fresh to the market collections. Top prices were paid for rare sulphides – clear or colored-glass marbles with a suspended figure of an object, often an animal. A [...]
December 11th, 2010 UAA Team 
A 1951 painting by purchased for $27.50 and kept out of the public eye for nearly 50 years sold for $128,700 on Dec. 4 at Quinn’s Auction Galleries in Falls Church, Virginia. Titled The Statesman, the 18 by 28 inch oil-on-canvas portrait was consigned by D.C.-area resident Enid Liess, a retired schoolteacher who, as a young [...]
