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/pafa-henry-ossawa-tanner/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/pafa-henry-ossawa-tanner/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:55:23 +0000 ewmiller http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=9055 A major exhibition of artwork by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner will premiere at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), on view from January 27 through April 15, 2012. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit will contain over 100 works, including 12 paintings that have never been shown in a Tanner retrospective and the [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/pafa-henry-ossawa-tanner/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/phyfe-sideboard-at-auction/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/phyfe-sideboard-at-auction/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:19:05 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=9037 With all the brouhaha over the Duncan Phyfe show at the Met, you don’t expect you could find a attributed Phyfe sideboard for sale in the price range of a ten year old used car. If you’re visited the show, or even if you haven’t, you may want to watch this auction. Thomaston Place is offering a New [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/phyfe-sideboard-at-auction/feed/ 0 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/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/pafa-presents-barnes-show-prior-to-landmark-museum-opening/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/pafa-presents-barnes-show-prior-to-landmark-museum-opening/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:46:37 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8980 In celebration of the debut of the Barnes Foundation in its new home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is presenting PAFA and Dr. Barnes, on view April 7 through July 8, exploring the connections between the Pennsylvania Academy and Dr. Albert Barnes. This exhibition will [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/pafa-presents-barnes-show-prior-to-landmark-museum-opening/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/art-museums-visits/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/art-museums-visits/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:10:18 +0000 Hui http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8940 Here is a map of art museums that UAA team have visited together in the past seven years. View UAA’s Museum List in a larger map In 2012, we have a few in our art museum visit list. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Barnes Collection St. Louis Art Museum Detroit Institute of the Arts [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/art-museums-visits/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/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