Bonhams’ New Saleroom, Top End of the Market and Sly Stallone Rides Again
Bonhams’ New Saleroom, Top End of the Market and Sly Stallone Rides Again – a number of short articles on Bonhams’ new custom built saleroom, more from Sotheby’s on the potential takeover, record prices at the top end of the market … More…
Want a Picasso, Chagall, Matisse for only $5? Attend Oberlin
Want a Picasso, Chagall, Matisse for only $5? Attend Oberlin – here is an interesting way to make a university stand out from the rest. Oberlin College, through their Art Rental program, allows student to rent works by Picasso, Matisse, Dali, … More…
Painting of the Day (just hit the SOLD archives) – Louis Aston Knight’s “Beaumont-le-Roger”
Beaumont-le-Roger. This strong work by the 19th/20th century French/American landscape artist Louis Aston Knight (1873-1948) recently made its way to a new home … and in case you are wondering, the scene features a series of wash-houses along the river. … More…
Man up: European art and the male nude
Man up: European art and the male nude – two shows will explore the European academic tradition of the male nude. The Male Nude: Eighteenth-century Drawings from the Paris Academy, which opened on October 23 at the Wallace Collection, will feature … More…
Leonardo Da Vinci Mural Discovered
An original Leonardo da Vinci mural has been discovered after at least 500 years of hiding under 17 layers of whitewash. Located in the Sforza Castle in Italy, the city of Milan plans to restore the newly discovered painting, which … More…
Happy Birthday Pablo Picasso!
Happy Birthday to the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso! The Spanish born artist who spent most of his life in France was the co-founder of the Cubist movement and collage, the inventor of constructed sculpture and … More…
Anthony Caro, Pioneering Scrap-Metal Sculptor, Dies at 89
Anthony Caro, Pioneering Scrap-Metal Sculptor, Dies at 89 – Caro started out as Henry Moore’s assistant in 1951, taught at Bennington College in Vermont for a couple of years in the 60s and later that decade had his first retrospective at … More…
Qatar’s Sheikha Mayassa tops art power list
Daughter of the former emir of Qatar and sister of the current, titled Her Excellency Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, has been named the most powerful person in the art world. At 30-years-old she has control over buying … More…
Wrecked Ferrari Sells for $250,000, Basquiat $5 Million at FICA
Wrecked Ferrari Sells for $250,000, Basquiat $5 Million more amazing ‘stuff’ is selling … this time it is taking place at FICA in Paris .. among the early sales was a wrecked Ferrari (found object called art) at $250,000, a … More…
Street Art Optical Illusions Bring Mind-Bending To A Whole New Level
A pair of French street artists are creating incredible works that bring stunning vibrance to mundane walls (and a range of other surfaces that get in their way). The works are painted in abandoned buildings and factories in Saint-Etienne, France … More…