http://www.urbanartantiques.com antiques and art news, views and commentary Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:17:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/into-americana-week/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/into-americana-week/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:24:08 +0000 ewmiller http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=9017 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/into-americana-week/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/a-gaggle-of-interest-americana-week-edition/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/a-gaggle-of-interest-americana-week-edition/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:13:39 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=9005 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/a-gaggle-of-interest-americana-week-edition/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/chinese-art-in-san-antonio-museum-of-art/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/chinese-art-in-san-antonio-museum-of-art/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:58:12 +0000 Sun http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8996 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, [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/chinese-art-in-san-antonio-museum-of-art/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/art-deco-hildreth-meiere-museum-of-biblical-art/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/art-deco-hildreth-meiere-museum-of-biblical-art/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:21:08 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8985 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/art-deco-hildreth-meiere-museum-of-biblical-art/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/san-antonio-museum-of-art-american-art-portrait/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/san-antonio-museum-of-art-american-art-portrait/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:14:28 +0000 Lin http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8965 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/san-antonio-museum-of-art-american-art-portrait/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/blanton-museum-of-art-ut-austin/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/blanton-museum-of-art-ut-austin/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:43:21 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8898 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/blanton-museum-of-art-ut-austin/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/no-more-boundaries-new-yorks-latest-antiques-show-refuses-to-be-boxed-in/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/no-more-boundaries-new-yorks-latest-antiques-show-refuses-to-be-boxed-in/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:32:13 +0000 ewmiller http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8838 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/no-more-boundaries-new-yorks-latest-antiques-show-refuses-to-be-boxed-in/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/sometimes-these-things-happen-the-buzz-about-grindr-art-r-mateo-diago-at-ro2/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/sometimes-these-things-happen-the-buzz-about-grindr-art-r-mateo-diago-at-ro2/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:12:59 +0000 ewmiller http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8800 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/sometimes-these-things-happen-the-buzz-about-grindr-art-r-mateo-diago-at-ro2/feed/ 1 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/nude-life-sketch-of-lady-gaga-by-tony-bennett-on-ebay/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/nude-life-sketch-of-lady-gaga-by-tony-bennett-on-ebay/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:30:02 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8797 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/nude-life-sketch-of-lady-gaga-by-tony-bennett-on-ebay/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/frederic-remington/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/frederic-remington/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:54:28 +0000 ewmiller http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8788 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/frederic-remington/feed/ 0