ewmiller | January 16, 2012

Americana Week has begun. Yesterday perhaps the first event of the week was a gallery talk at Keno Auctions ”American Still Life Painting in the 19th Century,” with Dr. William H. Gerdts. There’s a good deal of excitement and enthusiasm around Americana Week this year. The American Wing Galleries are re-opening at the Met and [...]
Category: Antiques, Art, Museum, Show & Gallery |
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Tags: Antiques Show New York, Crystal Bridges Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Duncan Phyfe, Hudson River, Keno, Met, still life, Thomas Cole, Warhol, William H. Gerdts
UAA Team | January 15, 2012

In this series, the UAA team will list some of the interesting items that we have found in auctions, antique shops, shows or eBay. We neither own the items or have the capability of examining the items in person in some cases. It mainly serves as an inventory record of what interests us (not necessarily in [...]
Category: Antiques, Art |
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Tags: advertising art, Ammi Phillips, Belter, Bonhams, Christie's, Gaggle of Interests, Keno, Levi Prentice, Meridienne, Moravian, Owl Bottle, Sotheby's, Thomas Chippendale, Thomas Sheraton
Sun | January 15, 2012

If, according to a director of a New York art institution, the first thing that curators should study is the neighborhood’s demography, then a collection in San Antonio will seem out of place. If an emphasis on Latino culture, with a vast selection from pre-Columbia, Spanish Colonial to contemporary, matches the city’s dominant Hispanic population, [...]
Category: Art, Asian Art, Collecting, Museum |
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Tags: Bunny Mellon, Kangxi, Liao Dynasty, qianglong, San Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art, Yongzheng
UAA Team | January 12, 2012

Renowned and versatile Art Deco muralist Hildreth Meière (1892-1961) is the subject of the Museum of Biblical Art’s exciting new exhibition Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière. On view from February 3 to May 20, 2012, Walls Speak showcases the liturgical designs this path-breaking artist created for many of the New York metropolitan [...]
Category: Art, Museum |
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Tags: Art Deco, Hildreth Meière, MOBIA, Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure University
Lin | January 7, 2012

Situated north of downtown San Antonio along the famous River Walk, the San Antonio Museum of Art is housed in the historic Lone Star Brewery building complex. From the outside, the complex lacks the grandeur of Beaux-Arts facades. Multi-floored, with a subdued sun-fade yellow, the brick buildings give the feeling of a genteel southern living [...]
Category: Art, Artist, Museum |
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Tags: Alice Vanderbilt Shepard, Ann De Peyster, Jacksonian, Lone Star Brewery, Peale, Portraits, Robert Henri, SAMA, San Antonio Museum of Art, Stuart, Texas Art, William Dunlop
UAA Team | January 2, 2012

Austin feels young, so does its museum. The American collection at the Blanton Museum of Art does not cover the first 100 years’ art of the nation, not to mention colonial times. Yet the presentation succeeds in holding an inviting angel that solicits comparison, connection and communication. In one room that features works of the [...]
Category: Art, Museum |
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Tags: Amon Carter, Austin, Blanton Museum, Ima Hogg, Jerry Bywaters, Josefina Guilisasti, Remington, Russell, Thomas Hart Benton, University of Texas at Austin, Yasuo Kuniyoshi
ewmiller | December 19, 2011

Following a decision by the Philadelphia Antiques Show to allow items in the show created as recently as 1970, comes a press release from New York’s Metro Show about a new mantra for collectors and designers: no more boundaries. According to the release “collectors, design aficionados, and art-insiders will be treated to an astonishing array [...]
Category: Antiques, Art, Show & Gallery |
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Tags: Americana Week, Leigh Keno, Metro Show, Modernism, New York Antiques Show
ewmiller | December 18, 2011

The world we live in is often planned, pondered over and reviewed in our dreams while lying still, or sleeping in bed. Such a bed was placed as a nucleus in the new exhibit at RO2 Gallery in downtown Dallas. Around it hung messages of personal motivation and introspection. From there spun the web of [...]
Category: Art, Artist, Show & Gallery |
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Tags: Dallas, Opening, R Mateo Diago, RO2 Gallery
UAA Team | December 18, 2011

A nude sketch of Lady Gaga by crooner Tony Bennett has gone viral (like much of what Lady Gaga is involved in). The Vancouver Sun reports that the 85-year-old Bennet released the portrait after they recorded “The Lady Is a Tramp.” The original charcoal drawing is being auctioned as a benefit for Gaga’s anti-bullying foundation, Born [...]
Category: Art, Artist, Auction |
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Tags: eBay, Lady Gaga, Nude, Sketch, Tony Bennett
ewmiller | December 17, 2011

I was at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art to give a docent tour today and took another look at a work called Ridden Down by Frederic Remington. You can see a painting a dozen times and then finally connect to it, or connect to it in a new way. Today I noticed a [...]
Category: Art, Museum |
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Tags: American West, Amon Carter Museum, Cowboy Art, Frederic Remington, Ridden Down, Western Art