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 Nasawewmiller | March 8, 2010
One of the things I’ve been looking forward to in the Dallas Fort Worth area is visiting the museums. The first of these was the Dallas Museum of Art. I didn’t quite know what to expect, of the museums in the region the one I had heard the most about was the Kimbell Museum in [...]
Geo | March 1, 2010
The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), will present an exhibition of 25 masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance—12 paintings and 13 drawings—that will include two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s “Diana and Actaeon” and “Diana and Callisto” (1556–1559). The two monumental paintings have never [...]
Geo | February 7, 2010
I’m not sure where Hillary Clinton was for this interview, but I did recognize the porcelain behind her from a recent auction at Sotheby’s. A similar plate from the collection of Elinor Gordon brought $21,250 January 23.
Sotheby’s provided these details: ”A relatively small number of orange ‘Fitzhugh’ dinner wares appear to survive, and of these some [...]
Melody | January 28, 2010
If you have never been inside The National Academy Museum it stood as a stately backdrop for the annual New York Ceramics Fair produced by Caskey Lees Inc. of Topanga, California. With the spiral staircase winding around to bring the attendees to the rare and valuable pieces above it more than fulfilled its purpose.
The opening [...]
Sun | January 28, 2010
Fifty-three-year-old Ma Weidu (or Weidu Ma in western tradition as Ma is his surname) began his collection in the 1980s. At that time, people rarely collected antiques and he just called what he bought “small old items”. The first antique he collected is a porcelain hanging panel, for which he spent 1,600 yuan, or over [...]
Hui | January 8, 2010
The traveling exhibition, To Live Forever, organized by Brooklyn Museum from its own extensive Egyptian collection, is coming back home. The opening day is scheduled on Feb 12, 2009.
At all all four previous venues which include Indianapolis, Sarasota, Columbus and Forfolk, the exhibition has been a great success. In Columbus alone, 18,586 visitors went to [...]
Geo | January 7, 2010
An exhibit that closed January 3 at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Beginning will move to the Dallas Museum of Art for a February 21 opening. The landmark exhibition exploring the influential and profound relationship between photographers and painters who lived and worked along the Normandy coast in France during the mid-19th century. [...]
Hui | January 6, 2010
Quite often a temporary exhibition will see two peaks of attendance: one at the opening and one near the close. A few excellent exhibitions in New York region will close in one or two weeks, thus this cold New York weekend, will be the last chance to see them.
1. Met: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday [...]
UAA Team | January 3, 2010
In this series, the UAA team will list some of the interesting items that we have found in auctions, antique shops 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 [...]
Geo | January 2, 2010
The Baltimore Museum of Art’s new exhibition, Cézanne and American Modernism, brings together 16 dazzling landscapes, still lifes, and portraits by the French master with more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and photographs by artists such as Max Weber, Alfred Stieglitz, and Marsden Hartley to show Cézanne’s profound impact on American artists at the beginning of [...]
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