The Slow Art Day Challenge: Look at One Artwork for 10 Minutes
The Slow Art Day Challenge: Look at One Artwork for 10 Minutes – this is an interesting challenge … I will have to try it sometime. Since I missed this year’s Slow Art Day, I will have a whole year to … More…
Painting of the Day (AVAILABLE): Edouard Cortes’ “Boulevard de la Madeleine, Winter”
Boulevard de la Madeleine, Winter. here is one by Edouard Leon Cortes (1882-1969) that we just added to the available online inventory … it is scheduled to be on view at the Chicago show at the end of this month. … More…
Picasso to Giacometti Lead $322 Million Auction – Included is a Monet being sold by the Met.
Picasso to Giacometti Lead $322 Million Auction – more of the offerings to hit the market this May. It is interesting to note, in the article, that according to the auction room there are less than 100 players at the top … More…
Trash & treasure: Hong Kong cops scour landfill for $3.7m painting
You would think one would be a LITTLE more careful with a painting worth almost $4 million. Cops are searching a landfill in China after cleaners of Hong Kong’s Grand Hyatt Hotel mistakenly threw out the box near a … More…
This Chinese Auction House Wants to Buy $1 Billion of Detroit’s Art
Poly International Auction, located in mainland China, the worlds third-largest auction house, after Christie’s and Sotheby’s, is willing to spend $1 billion in order to acquire the Chinese works owned by the bankrupt Detroit Institute of Art. This Chinese … More…
Detroit’s Orr Shoots Down Creditors’ $2 Billion Art Offer
Detroit’s Orr Shoots Down Creditors’ $2 Billion Art Offer the frenzy to get a piece of Detroit’s art collection is amazing. I do hope they find another way to get out of debt … it would be a real bad precedent … More…