April 1st, 2012 
UAA Team 
The Chrysler Museum of Art Board of Trustees voted recently to move forward with plans for a major expansion and renovation of the Museum in 2013. Architectural plans have been approved, and the Board will solicit construction bids this spring with construction beginning in July. An additional 8,000 square feet of new gallery space in [...]
March 30th, 2012 UAA Team 
This summer the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville will present two exhibitions exploring parallels between folk and self-taught artists of the American South. Creation Story: Gee’s Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial includes 44 works–20 quilts by the women of Gee’s Bend and 24 paintings and assemblages by Thornton Dial–drawn [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Show & Gallery 
Tags: African-American Art, folk art, Frist, Nashville, outsider art, self-taught, Southern Art, Thornton Dial 
No Comments » March 27th, 2012 UAA Team ![Arthur B. Davies from Wikimedia Commons [[File:Arthur B. Davies.jpg|thumb|Arthur B. Davies]]](http://www.urbanartantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/461px-Arthur_B._Davies-230x300.jpg "Arthur B. Davies from Wikimedia Commons [[File:Arthur B. Davies.jpg|thumb|Arthur B. Davies]]")
A leading figure in the organization of the transformational 1913 Armory Show, Arthur B. Davies (1862–1928) is the subject of a new exhibition at Spanierman Gallery in New York. The show includes works rendered from the 1890s through the 1910s by this visionary member of the Eight. Davies often rendered his own interpretations of ancient myths, [...]
March 22nd, 2012 UAA Team 
The Dallas International Art, Antique & Jewelry Show is apparently making a third go at a show in the Big D, this time at Market Hall. The new location is more central to the city, but may not have the same cachet of the Dallas Convention Center (site of the 2009 Show) or the newly [...]
March 22nd, 2012 Hui ![[[File:John Singer Sargent A Street in Venice.jpg|thumb|John Singer Sargent A Street in Venice]]](http://www.urbanartantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/454px-John_Singer_Sargent_A_Street_in_Venice-1-227x300.jpg "454px-John_Singer_Sargent_A_Street_in_Venice (1)")
“The Youthful Genius” – four paintings by John Singer Sargent from the Clark Art Institute, current exhibited at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, is mini-scaled show mixed with monumentality and intimacy. All painted by Sargent when he was aboard, between the age of 22 and 27, the artworks are extraordinary for painters of any age; yet [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Show & Gallery Tags: Amon Carter, Clark Museum, Italy, John Singer Sargent, Venice No Comments » March 12th, 2012 Hui 
The rain almost stopped on the opening night of the current 500X gallery exhibition. At least it didn’t dampen the young vibe that is so characteristic of galleries in Deep Ellum. The fact that both Scott Hilton and John Nicholas Hutchings are art teachers attracted so many students that the overhanging Bohemian atmosphere surely kept [...]
Posted in Art, Show & Gallery Tags: 500X, Art Gallery, Calder, Dallas, Deep Ellum, Fort Worth Modern, GCB, John Nichols Hutchings, Laura Doughtie, Michael Francis, Scott Hilton No Comments » March 5th, 2012 ewmiller 
It may not have been the first choice for a major work by Thomas Eakins to adorn the walls of the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. That of course was The Gross Clinic which shows Dr.Samuel D. Gross, a seventy-year-old professor dressed in a black frock coat, as he lectures a group of Jefferson [...]
February 29th, 2012 ewmiller 
As you know from the previous post on the Chinese art market, the awaited report on trends in the market is out. As was pointed out recently in Forbes by Abigail Esman, these results ignore transactions in the private market, and hey, there was a pretty big one- a record-setting Cezanne that went for $250 [...]
Posted in Antiques Business, Art, Auction Tags: Abigail Esman, Artprice, Auction, Card Players, Cézanne, Chinese art, Forbes, Picasso, Zhang Daqian No Comments » February 27th, 2012 ewmiller 
The Crystal Bridges Museum of Art is more than I expected. While I expected to see great things, the assemblage of American Art is an outstanding achievement. Many of the paintings that line the walls of the Moshe Safdie-designed buildings are exceptional examples of works both of the period, and of the particular artist. That’s [...]
Posted in Art, Museum Tags: Arkansas, Asher B. Durand, Crystal Bridges, Kindred Spirits, Moshe Safdie No Comments » February 24th, 2012 UAA Team 
In a story with a dateline of Paris, a city in a country knocked out of the top art markets several years ago, the China Post reports that the late artist Zhang Daqian 张大千 was the best-selling artist at auction in 2011. The information was provided to the paper by Artprice. Spanish great Pablo Picasso [...]
Posted in Art, Asian Art, Auction Tags: Artprice, Picasso, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, 张大千 No Comments »
